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. I was just stating how I feel, not how you or anyone else feels. Every one has a right to their own opinion. I just stated mine. If yours is different, then that is your opinion. I have always been a motor head and as such is probably what brought me in to model aviation in the first place. I always buy engines and then look for a plane to put them in, instead of building a plane and looking for a motor for it. I know I am backwards from most, but that is just me.
I can see the advantages of electric, but to me they do not out weigh the fun of IC. It just somehow seems wrong to me to put an electric motor on something that was meant for at least an IC engine. Preferably a good spark engine. But as I said, that is my opinion. Do what ever floats your boat. As you say, why should you care what I think. Or what should I care what you think. Opinions are just that. I stated mine. Of course that will always cause controversy.
I'm not putting any one down for what they do. It's not my way or the hiway. But I do have an opinion.
It seems as though when ever we get something new we loose something in the process. When the big hobby conglomerates took over we lost the local mom and pop hobby shops because they could not compete with big money. I miss those as they were a great place to hang out and drool over all the neat stuff and tell lies with other modelers. The smells and sights in those places inspired our imaginations and we aspired to do something greater. My first encounter with a hobby shop was where guys were running old ignition engines in the back room with the back door open to let the fumes out. Those things stay with us for years, sometimes dormant, but never the less they are there.
So yeah, I am probably just a throw back to those years as that is what got me in the hobby to begin with. I miss the old days where every one built their own planes and chewed glue off there fingers. We learned things from building that you can not get any other way. Besides keeping us off the streets and doing something constructive to keep our selves busy. It was where dreams were made and helped us in many other ways.
I became a trouble shooter for a petroleum pipeline and much of the perseverance of building models and fixing engines helped me to do my job the same way. You learn things from modeling that help in all other areas of life.
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