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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RandyDSok" data-source="post: 180536" data-attributes="member: 201">I did have a train set when I was young ( pre-teen age )... notice that was singular and not plural. I did certainly enjoy mine when I was a kid but my family couldn't afford additional pieces at that time. When I got into my early teens, a box of balsa was relatively cheap and I could save up for a model that I may have been interested in. At that time, my Dad had the radio equipment. I didn't get my first radio until my mid-teens, a Hi-Tech Prism 7 since I also had developed an interest in helicopters. My first airplane kit I bought ( beyond the hand gliders I had when young )... was the Sig Kadet... I think it was a Mark II like they sell now if I recall correctly. The second one, that I still have because it never saw the air, is the Sig Kobra kit that I have pics on on my website in the RC-> My Hanger page, the last two pics on that page. My next purchase was a SuperTigre .25-.27 engine ( or something close to that size ). While it was a small engine on the lower end of the recommended ones for the Kadet, it was a hot rodded version and was just fine for learning on. It also was going to fit the Kobra which I was just starting to put together... and it also fit the Cricket heli that I had my eye on and later purchased. Speaking of the Cricket, I did hover it some but never got further into training on it. I also didn't have a gyro since they were outside the scope of most people in the mid to late 70's. After that point, all my airplanes were ARF's including my first warbird, a World Models P51D. I've only bought one foamy ARF, the FMS P51D with a 50 something inch wingspan, it's probably their 2nd or 3rd revision of that model. While it is the airplane I did my own first take-off and landings with ( all on my own, I'd flown previously but not from take off to the landing ), it is also the reason I'll never buy that type of larger sized foam ARF again. Even though I was still very inexperienced at that time, I could "feel" it wiggle around in the air.</blockquote>

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