Radio Control: Giant Scale
LAMENTABLE! It's always been one of my major regrets. Although my foster father worked for the Eastman Kodak Company and was an award-winning photographer, I never had a camera as a kid. Oh, there was always the odd Brownie around the house but my mother appropriated it most of the time. So, even though the usual Sunday automobile ride ended up at a local airport, I didn't photographically record all those fabulous Thirties aircraft I saw. And I'm talking about some pretty exotic birds, too, such as: Roscoe Turner's Pesco Special, Benny Howard's Ike and Mike, and Clarence Chamberlin's Curtiss Condor, to say nothing of all those wire-bound biplanes that are antique treasures today.
Radio Control: Giant Scale
I'M SERVING UP a kind of potpourri this month. I don't know if you've noticed, but things are looking up for us Big Bird builders. After years of building models from scratch, there are more and more kits for Giant Scale birds arriving at our local hobby shops. Certainly, it's a lot easier building from a kit, with all the attendant parts prefabrication they include. Concurrently, accessory suppliers have increased the variety of bits and pieces that are suitable for large RC model construction. Recently, the good folks at Sig sent me a "goody" box containing examples of what I'm talking about.
