Monkey King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted, "Actually, I started with bamboo. Advanced materials do not equal an advanced modeler; you have to start where you understand. Learning about wood vs. bamboo, built up vs. solid wings, etc. gives you a real understanding of what you want out of a material."
I grew up in Japan, but I was already into modeling. I had been an unsuccessful builder of a number of Cleveland and Comet kits until Strut-To-Speed came along--one of my young adult pleasures was to bring a kid across from my college campus past the same disappointment to being a successful builder. We put a Cox .10 on the front of something he got together and we flew it out of sight. Growing up in Japan, bamboo was a prime material and I learned so much from the simple models we would build--one stick for a fuse and the rest bamboo, covering tissue a propeller, a rubber motor . . . one summer as my boys were coming along I gathered the left overs from fireworks--a stick some bamboo, took some tissue, a propeller and rubber for a motor . . . It flew great and I still have the little guy hanging in my ceiling as a remembrance of my boys. Time to time, I wonder, why not bamboo :-) !? Why NOT!!?? And I turn to the bamboo! Paul Clark, SKY PILOT ONE, Osaka, Japan (AMA # 53 777 1) http://www.kcat.zaq.ne.jp/skypilot/ SKY PILOT'S HANGAR--RCHLG AFICIONADO RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
