Tutor
EVER SINCE I can remember I have heard: "Where are the Juniors?" "Where are kids who build model airplanes?" "Model aviation is going to vanish when the last real modeler who built 10¢ Comet models dies!" Baloney! The kids who build (or would build) models are everywhere. They are playing baseball, riding bikes, playing arcade games, and most of all they are in school. They still love to make things with their hands. They still love to say, "Look what I made." The magic fascination with things that fly and soar and move through space is still there. Imagination and fantasy combined with the idea and actuality of flight are still grist for the mills of growing and developing minds and reflexes.
1/2A Challenger
THE BEST PARTS of my airplane construction article I've ever read are those in which the author explains why and how he designed the model and his experiences while trimming and flying it. This is the sharing of personal experience, and I find it particularly enjoyable. It allows me to experience the model vicariously - nice, because I couldn't possibly live long enough to build everything I'd like to build. I know this sharing is why I enjoy Bill Winter's writings (the poet-philosopher of model aviation?) so much. Anyway, here goes-heavy on experiences, and light on construction details.
Happy Days
THERE I WAS, raking my yard on a gorgeous fall day with one of those perfect blue skies. The sun was really pleasant where it touched my skin. It was September, and I had been back for the first week of teaching school. It was one of those moments that evoke all the magical times from your past-those simple pleasures from long ago that have etched themselves into your memory bank, where they seem to lie in wait for some like experience to trigger them.
