Jim T. Graham

OUR HOBBY has come a long way since the early days of RC. Once
we had to click our transmitter twice to make our model go in a desired
direction. Nowadays, we have transmitters that cost thousands of
dollars and do almost everything except check e-mail—and I’ll bet that
is not too far away!
Who pushes the innovation in our hobby? Many of the large RC
companies hire teams of people to design, test, and bring products to
market, but is that where all things new in RC originate?
When the foamie model was introduced, it was thanks to pilots
across the country who were ready to cut