THANKS everyone. I felt honored to get to write my bio and be the cover boy. Nikki did a great job laying out the article, but I had to wonder WHO that old man was looking back at me! When I'm flying I feel like I'm catching up with the teenager Dick Pacini mentioned.
One unexpected outcome, I last flew stunt at the NATs in 1983 (!!) my daughter Julie was born in 1984. Thus the whole national competition thing is a part of my life she had never really heard about. She read the article and said she liked it - after stiffling a few laughs at those pix of me 150 lbs ago with all that hair - that was still brown.
Howard: its not the branches of the family tree, its all the thorns & nuts!
Aeromodeling is historically a family activity, and we have all encountered many families along the way - the Olsons, the Curtis's the Rudners, the McClellans, the Fitzgeralds; countless more. The Hapsburgs - they flew Carrier out west didn't they???
Speaking of families, I really enjoyed (same issue) Joe Just's article on the Johnson Family. The cycle begins again...