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I'm a Scot who has lived in Canada for over 30 years. I used to fly control line in the height of the "Golden Years" of that genre - late 50's through mid 60's, but lost touch with aeromodelling after emigrating, marrying and raising a family in Canada (all sounds very familiar I know!). Rediscovered the sport/hobby about 10 years ago when I found out there was a club (Kincardine Cloudbusters) in the small town of Kincardine, where I had relocated after moving jobs.

The club is essentially an R/C only club, although a couple of members other than myself have flown control line in the past, and one other still does very occasionally. I have been messing with R/C since joining the club, most recently electric powered. In the last couple of years I have had a hankering to try some C/L again, and since I really don't have enough time to spend on the hobby (retirement a few years away yet), I find C/L easier to fit in to my schedule. There seems to be less preparation and maintenance time required. I also think it might be a better way to attract kids into the sport, since the start up costs, time, commitment etc., are certainly less demanding at the sport level than those of R/C, and some disciplines, such as combat, should have good appeal for the younger crowd. On the other hand, I may be kidding myself completely, and aeromodelling may be a slowly dying art form. Let's hope not.!!

The club has a fairly basic web site at www.bmts.com/~wightman , which I also don't have enough time to maintain, but has the necessary information for someone to contact us, and also some pictures from our annual fun-fly's... well, I haven't actually managed to get last years pics in yet...

Professionally I'm a physicist working in the nuclear power industry. I am married and have two grown up sons, both of whom have tried aeromodelling, but neither of which is actively involved now.

Thank you, Reg, for your efforts in bringing us ModelFlight. Lang may yer lum reek!

Tom's club website is a good browse and well worth a visit - it is unusual in that it carries some really good shots of models in flight which are so tricky to capture successfully; I've put a couple up on our photo gallery.

Tom's comments on control line are interesting - see also site seeing for some nice Australian nostalgia.

Join in the fun, send ModelFlight an e-mail and tell us about yourself, your family, hobbies and interests, what you do for a living, how long you've been model-making, what club you belong to, etc. - in fact as much or as little as you see fit. Include a picture of yourself if you can.

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If you want to send me pictures by conventional mail, my address is

Reg Heath, 60 South View Gardens, Andover, Hants, SP10 2AQ, UK

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