You might be a control line flyer……

[Paul Taylor]

I think we did this years ago. It’s a take off “You might be a redneck”….

You might be a control line flyer if……

🔵 you have a collection of Brodak / Stunthangar Tee shirts.

🔵 you have ever used a APC prop to slice a tomato.

🔵 you ever used CA to glue a cut together.


Keep it going 🤣

[Motorman]

If you have a pot belly.

[Warren Walker]

If you are on the freeway going 70 MPH and see a plot of grass, asphalt, or concrete and within two seconds assess if its big enough ,clear of obstructions and
if their are any trees that will cause turbulence.

[John Carrodus]

You see an airliner on finals and your hand starts to twitch. A voice in your head yells, "Whip it!"

[Mark Romanowitz]

- The first thing you search for on eBay whenever you login is "Control Line Model Airplane Kit"
- You will spend nearly $300 on improving an LA .46 and then realize you should have just gone ahead and bought a PA or Stalker

[bill bischoff]

You can convert speed times to MPH in your head, but you can't remember your own cell phone #.
Your ear is as accurate as any tachometer.
Your right bicep is noticeably bigger than your left.
You tend to walk in a wide left hand circle.
You have a large collection of left hand gloves, left over from all the pitting gloves you've gone through.
You have a safety thong tan line.
Your conversations include dope, pipes, needles, and syringes, and no one bats an eye.

[wwwarbird]

...if you're interested in and capable of actually building and finishing a flying model airplane.


 

[Steve Dwyer]

When you see a flock of Canadian geese come in for a landing at a pond across the street and watch how they use their wings to progressively stall and land safely. Then you compare this to a dead stick inverted hopefully "gentile" control line landing.

[John Rist]

If you are parking your car in the cold and wet to make room for a flat building table and airplane storage.

[Ken Culbertson]

If the first thing you do every day when you wake up is look out the window to see which way and how hard the wind is blowing.
When walking after dark you are estimating the angle above the horizon of the moon.

[Andre Ming]

If you are on the freeway going 70 MPH and see a plot of grass, asphalt, or concrete and within two seconds assess if its big enough ,clear of obstructions and
if their are any trees that will cause turbulence.

GUILTY!

Though I've not been active in C/L for quite a few years, to this day I can be driving across town, on the highway, wherever... and if I see a large, nice, flat field with close cropped mowed grass, I immediately think: "Oh... that would be a nice place to fly!" (Either 1/2 A if smaller, or 60' lines if larger.)

I've done this ever since I was beginning to fly C/L back in the KC MO area in the 1960s!

Andre

[Robert Zambelli]

My entire personal Christmas "wants" list comes out of the Brodak catalog!

[Mark Romanowitz]

You habitually go to every Menards, Hobby Lobby and Dick Blick art store in a 30 mile radius, head straight to the balsa stock and start going through all of the wood trying to find the lightest and straightest stuff they have, and then you notice some young art student with and armfull and ask them if they would be willing to swap with you because you notice they picked the better wood just before you got there.

When you pull into a parking lot, you mentally gauge whether the distance between the light poles is far enough to give clearance for a flight.

[Mike Griffin]

You can drop small parts and cannot find them

You have multiple wounds from a number 11 blade

You know what the term "Hangar Rash" means.

You know what a FOX Burp is.

You know a stooge is not Larry, Curly or Moe.

[Rusty]

Your car smells like burnt castor oil.

There are model kits under every bed.

There are built model planes in the living area of the house.

There is CA glue in the freezer.

The wax paper is kept in the garage, not the kitchen.

Some of the kitchen and entertainment center cabinets are full of model engines.

[John McFayden]

At your grandkids little league game you check the wind to see where you would do the wingover ....

You have spare props on your dash, in the cup holder, above the sun visor and in the glove box ...

You see a man in white pants going into a hardware and you think it is Bob Hunt going in for a can of bronze paint ....

[Mark Romanowitz]

Your car is rusty, has some Bondo that is cracking and needs a paint job, but the plane in the back seat is flawless and shiny and could win Concours next year.

[Luke N.]

 When you go flying, you double check the Handle to make damn sure you have got UP on top and NOT the other way around, .....again.

[Matt Colan]

When your wife is going to throw away old panty hose and you ask if you can have it to make air filters

[Frank Imbriaco]

You pass the balance part of your annual physical. Especially old guys.

[Dave_Trible]

You ask for glow plugs for Christmas...

Dave

[Paul Taylor]

Some of these are true and funny. You can’t make this stuff up. 😂🤣🤪

[Shorts,David]

You go car shopping with a cardboard cut out the size of your stuntship.

You are a girl in striped or checkered pants and think of Arlie Preszler or Ted Fancher.

[Colin McRae]

You have rebuilt the same model 42 times.

[Motorman]

You check out the fishing line at Walmart but not for fishing.

You have scar tissue on the tip of your middle finger of the right hand.

The dust in the corner of the basement is carcinogenic.

When they mention a dangerous chemical on TV you brag to your wife "I have that down stairs".

You know 3 sources for ethyl ether, nitromethane, proplyene oxide and chromic acid.

The people down at the local copier place call you the airplane man.

MM

[Bob Hudak]

When you go to the park in your development,mow the infield of the ball diamond on a riding lawnmower for a perfect takeoff and landing spot, then get as many flights in before your really noticed.

[Mark Romanowitz]

You put on "Smokin'" by Boston on your living room stereo and instead of playing "air guitar" you go through all of the motions of a stunt pattern.