Don't Quit the Greatest Sport On Earth!
You’re up there in age, and you’ve just returned from the
flying field and plunked down in your easy chair to think
about the experience you had a few minutes ago—in front
of all your friends!
You didn’t seem to have enough time to get your RC airplane
out of a no-win attitude, and it crashed.
In the paper “A Literature Review on Reaction Time” by
Robert J. Kosinski of Clemson University, he states that with
respect to age, “Reaction time shortens from childhood into the
late 20s, then increases slowly until the 50s and 60s, and then
lengthens faster as the person gets into his 70s and beyond.”
There is a solution to some of the troubling aspects of slow
reaction time (and less-than-perfect eyesight). You don’t have to
hang it up and quit just because you’re getting older.
Wire Wheels for Antique Aeroplanes
I love building models of antique aeroplanes (airplanes were not invented until about 1920). The nostalgia and stories connected with these oldies is quite fascinating. Nothing looks more graceful than a vintage model flying about at the local field, with spectators watching as if in a time warp. I'm in my 65th year of building models, and for some reason, when I built a JN4-D2, I just naturally bought the wire wheels for it, because they looked so overwhelming to make. I recently completed a scratch-built 1/6-scale Handley-Page E circa 1910, and a 1/6-scale 1912 Albatros Warpwing Taube Biplane. Since I'm a perfectionist, this mandated scratch-built wire-wheels-two for the HP and four for the Warpwing.
