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Carl is a member of St John's R/C Flyers and is also President of the Atlantic Zone of the Model Aeronautics Association of Canada.

Carl grew up (although he says he's not sure if he is completely grown up!) in Newfoundland mostly. Aviation has always been a large part of his life with his first experience of flying being when he was just two years old! His Dad took him flying in a Piper PA22 Colt and he still has the logbooks to prove it.

Carl graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a B.Sc in Physics. He was married to Pam in June 1990 and she is usually with him when he attends fun-flys and is very supportive of his hobby. This may partly be explained by the fact that they have an agreement that for every dollar he spends on planes, she spends a dollar on sewing or painting supplies. 

After spending some ten years in New Brunswick with NBTel, Pam and Carl moved back to Newfoundland in July last year, where Carl currently works with XWave solutions as a systems analyst. If you're curious to know a bit more about XWave, visit http://www.xwavesolutions.com 

Carl has been aero-modelling since he was 6 - first with 5-cent balsa gliders. He graduated to plastics at nine, then on to control-line and rockets. He first became interested in R/C in 1979 whilst watching two fellows flying in a field across from his home in Pasadena, Newfoundland. He still keeps in touch with them, one of them - Fred Colbourne - being a fellow-member of St John's. Now Carl flies 'anything with wings' but no helis - yet! Most of his flying is sports scale planes; Caps, Extras and a Citabria and he has a few warbirds around. Much of his modelling time is spent designing and drawing planes.

Carl reckons that for him the most enjoyment he gets from the hobby is the people. "I thoroughly enjoy attending events and the people really make this hobby. The fellowship of this hobby is its greatest attribute" he says.

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TORE is 75 years of age, a retired former defence purchasing manager and describes himself as 'a real old-timer, born two years before Charles crossed the Atlantic'! He is married to Anna-Lena and has a family of three children and three cats - Björn (45), Annika (42), Nils (20), Caesar the Siamese (9), Bolling the Norwegian (7) and Truls the Persian (3).

Tore has been an avid R/C flyer for 35 years, flying and competing in all of the R/C classes. These days he prefers to fly old-timers, partly because they fit his age, he says, and partly because they are beautiful to look at, the sun shining through their framework - as the above picture of Tore with his Astro Viking nicely demonstrates, even when its not airborne.

Tore has to go to the field by bus or train and sometimes on his moped, so he has to make his models 'detachable' by using strap-on landing gear, wings built in halves and fin separated from stabiliser and fuselage - they call him the 'mopedflyer'! For the same reason, he has now begun to build small 1/2 A and 'arkflyer' models which, he reckons, also sharpen his slackening reflexes.

Last holiday, he had the luck to pinpoint the only wind and rain-free day this summer for an old-timer meeting south of Stockholm. The meeting attracted 16 participants who all got free hotdogs and Coca Cola. Tore got second place with his Super Scorpion which caught a thermal and stayed aloft for 12 minutes after an allotted time of just one minute - perhaps not quite correct for an organiser of the meeting, he comments!

As well as old-timers and the 1/2 A scale models, Tore also likes to fly free-flight indoors and has a variety of some 20 models hanging from his ceiling. His outdoor fleet consists of his Astro Viking, 170cm span, ·20 4S from an Astro kit; Playboy Senior, both pylon and coupé versions, 200cm span, OS ·45 4S from a Ben Buckle kit; Super Scorpion, 200cm span, 0S ·45 4s also from a Ben Buckle kit and a Curtiss Robin, 110cm span, ·049 from a Flyline kit. 

Tore is actually the founder member of Stockholm's Radioflygclubb. 35 years ago he was unable to gain access to the only existing club in Stockholm and at that time he was wanting to take part in the Swedish R/C championships for which club membership was a requirement, so he formed a new club which is now the largest R/C club in Sweden! A great story, don't you think? I'm gathering some more information on this club and hope to feature it on a future ModelFlight.

Tore's pioneering spirit is also shown in the way that he was responsible for the first Pylon, Scale and Schneider Cup races, Old-timer and Mini-R/C meetings in Sweden.  Tore is now an honorary member of Radioflygclubb and several other R/C clubs in the neighbourhood of Stockholm.

Tore's other interests include water painting, computers and writing - of ModelFlight he very kindly says, "Rather very good site this! Earlier I have missed it, but now incorporated it in the favourites".

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