History and Background

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=18.75% BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040d4580dduajq.gif"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Click the links below to navigate this site.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Welcome to densplanes.co.uk"><U>Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History and Background"><U>History</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Videos"><U>Videos</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Planes"><U>My Planes</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Local displays"><U>Local Displays</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Some hints and tips"><U>Hints and tips</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact me</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Aerial Video and Pictures"><U>Aerial Video and Pictures</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Welcome to densplanes.co.uk"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <B>History and Background</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Planes"><U>My Planes</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Videos"><U>Videos</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Local displays"><U>Local displays</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Some hints and tips"><U>Some hints and tips</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Aerial Video and Pictures"><U>Aerial Video and Pictures</U></A></div> <div> History and Background</div> <div> I was born in 1963 and started the hobby of radio control flying when I was about 15 years old.</div> <bR> <div> In those days the only real option was IC models so I started with a control line hurricane. All I can remember about this was it went incredibly fast, was hell to start and I never got further than half a circuit. I then split the fuel tank in a crash and that was that.</div> <bR> <div> A little later in life I bought an IC trainer from <A HREF="http://www.galaxymodels.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.galaxymodels.co.uk"><U>Galaxy models</U></A> in Ipswich. It was a balsa kit and I recall it took quite a long time to build. Buying the kit entitled me to some lessons at Ipswich airport which I keenly took up. Alas I crashed the plane twice as was normal and carried it home in carrier bags. I rebuilt the plane twice and flew it again at Raydon airfield. The day was too windy but like a twit I flew anyway. The last thing I recall was flying into wind at full throttle but because the wind was so strong I was loosing ground speed. As the plane flew out of site I recall my friend saying 'what do you do now'. I replied by switching my transmitter off and looking at him with a sad face.</div> <bR> <div> Not to be deterred I put a note in small shop in Raydon and to my amazement when I returned home a kind person had found the remains of my plane and I duly contacted him and retrieved it. I rebuilt the plane but never flew it again.</div> <bR> <div> Some 20 + years later I visited Snetterton market in Suffolk and saw a small electric plane called a fighterbird, it was 2 channel and cost around £ 85. Everything you needed to fly the plane was in the box and to my amazement I flew it for around 15 minutes and it came back in one piece. That was in May 2004. It is now Early 2006 and I have some 36 aircraft and to date I think I have spent around £ 16,000 (I must have lost it).</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>