After many a year, I'm playing around with getting back into the hobby, mostly because of my son taking an interest.
So I built a bench in the basement and went looking thru old boxes for what I could find. I've been hauling this stuff around since the 60s. I found my engines, everything from Enyas from the Korean War era to 049/020s from the late 50s to Fox and Torpedo engines up to 35s.
I had a temporary revival in the 90s and scratchbuilt a couple of stunt designs...never finished them and they are a little ratty after surviving 20+ years in the basement. One is a Thunderbird built from plans. The other is a bit different. I had taken the family to the Smithsonian Air Museum and was really hooked with the Hughes H-1 racing plane. I drew up my own plans for a semi-scale 48" wingspan model that I wanted to put a Fox 35 in. I never finished the model but I include it here in case you are wondering what it looks like.
![](http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr349/calvin6767/H1.jpg)
![](http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr349/calvin6767/Thunderbird.jpg)
Needless to say, I've got some patching and cleaning ahead of me. Maybe I'll get these things into the air after all!!