It amazes me that many on here are lifers. I started flying control line in the early 50's with Scientific Hollow Logs and an OK Cub .049. I later graduated to larger planes and a Fox 35. In the late 60's I flew R/C pattern that lasted for 25 years. Then Jim Lee and Andrew Hathaway got me hooked on control line again in the early 90's I flew both for a short time, and then only flew control line for competition.
I still fly a little R/C for fun mostly in old time free flights with a radio and ignition engines. You just do not see to many young folks flying control line. When we were growing up before computers and cell phones, modeling was a great hobby past time and kept many of us out of trouble. We all had to have some kind of work to pay for our addiction, and that was good for us too. We all learned skills and perseverance along with the hobby. Most of the control line people I have met are real gentlemen, and I think we can contribute a lot of that to control line and modeling in general.