1964,10 years old. A teacher at school was a control line nutter who built planes in his classroom and was building a Nobler which absolutely blew our minds as kids - we'd never seen a model plane that was sooooo big! One day he flew one kids Cox trainer, the blue one, twin seater two pilots. I was besotted. Shortly afterwards joined the Papatoetoe ( papa= earth, toetoe,= feather like white tall flower.) Model Aircraft Club and learned to fly a Showman 1.5cc deisel powered club trainer by a tall long haired skinny guy who may have been an escaped hippy. Anyways , he was a good instructor and soon my mates and I were keen builders and fairly wrecklee fliers at tyhe local park on weekends and after school. Then we drifted away and I have recently returned when I retired. Loving it.