Hi there, started building when at school in London, local shop was owned by Denis Bryant of Elite Plan fame, remember the first multi engine scale , a B17, joined RAF 1961and flew speed c/l for No. 1 Radio School Locking, now in RSA, flying r/c from old tailings dam at Consort Gold Mine near Barberton on the Swazi border. Still butchering balsa, have grandson started in the hobby.