Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Well, we were chatting away on one of the threads the other day when a couple of the forumites happened to mention their age. Several others were quite surprised - not at all the idea you might have had! So a group of fellow posters have asked if we could have a survey about how old we all were and how long we'd been modelling. I said I'd try and set something up - so this is it! When doing the mode survey I did think of asking for ages - but felt it was a getting bit "personal" But the long and short is I'm assured by others that they would have no problem with it so here goes and I hope enough of us feel able to answer (honestly!) to give us some good quality statistics. We're going to try to answer the following questions: 1. What is the average age of modellers today - are we a predominately middle aged hobby - or is there a vibrant healthy "yoof" element. 2. Is the age profile different for various aspects of the hobby? So, are slopers a younger group? Are all scale IC types travelling to the patch with their free bus pass? 3. Is flying model airplanes a disease caught in "childhood" that plagues you for the rest of your life? Did most of us actually catch the bug when very young - even if we had a long lay-off during girls/family time? So, here are the questions we'd like you to answer if you would be so kind. 1.Current age (whole years will do!) 2. What discipline you mainly fly - if you do loads please pick upto three which you would consider your main activities. The categories are: IC Sport IC Scale IC Aerobatics (incl 3D) Elec Sport Elec Scale Elec Aerobatics (incl 3D) Slope - All types Other non-powered. Heli Elec Heli IC 3. At what age did you have your first real flying aeromodelling experience. So that could be building a glider, a rubber powered model, IC free flight or RC. But not just assembling an Airfix kit or a two piece chuck glider! We want to know when you started what we would recoginise as "Aeromodelling". Note you may have then taken a long lay-off - that doesn't matter - we just want to know when you first made a flying model. OK that's it. Similar rules to last time - please confine contributions to this thread to just direct answers to the questions - no other info. HERE is a discussion thread to run in parallel so you can post any stories etc there, please do NOT clog this thread with discussion - just the data please . Let's see if we can sucessfully answer these questions. BEB PS This survey is open to all forum readers - regardless of where they live!Edited By Timbo - Administrator on 18/02/2010 23:01:36 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator Posted February 18, 2010 Author Share Posted February 18, 2010 To set a good example - I'll start the ball rolling: 53 years old IC Sport IC Scale Bulit Keil Kraft rubber powered kits when 12-13 years. BEB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Grigg Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 I started 2 years ago Easter aged 63 .,so now Im 65 I fly IC and Electric.I fly Vintage Scale and Aerobatic,Ive done a couple of kit builds but mainly ARTF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 59 this year a) Slope b) Electric scale / sport c) IC scale Keil Kraft ranger control liner....@ circa 14 yrs old ( thats a best guess - I have difficulty remembering what I had for breakfast ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete B Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 57 years - and no, I still can't believe it.......... Elec Sport Elec Scale Heli Elec 14 years - with a Mercury Matador Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Fidling Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Just under 16 years 'leccy sport / scale 15 years, first RTF bought! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanN Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 51 i.c. sport 11, Keil Kraft Piper Family Cruiser rubber powered f/f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
001 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 66years. Electric sport. Slope Soaring. 11 years old, built a KeilKraft Fokker D8 rubber powered.......Shortly after went on to Diesel freeflight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Elliott Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 33yrs ic sport elec heli 30yrs old artf boomerang 40 size ( still got it) Gaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 54 IC Scale IC Aerobatics (incl 3D) Elec Aerobatics (incl 3D) @13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Irvine Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 56 IC Sport (trainer) Elec sport 14 Keilcraft Hurricane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo565 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 68IC Sport IC Scale Started around 15 yrs. old with Frog Tomtit and then Keilkraft Playboy. been at it ever since and still enjoying the hobby and this forum. Jimbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Clarkson Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 31IC Sport31. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspector9566 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 44. ic sport. ic aero inc 3D. electric aero inc 3D. 40 with arizing star ic artf and yes i stll have it for my son to use (if I dont kill it first). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter 'Ivanna Crashalot' Savage Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 1. 17 :P 2. IC Sport IC Aerobatics (incl 3D) Elec Sport 3. Built a McAllister SkyBug, must have been about 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy watson Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 41 IC sport IC scale Started @ 38. (Did have an abortive attempt 15 years ago, but not really worth counting)Edited By andy watson on 19/02/2010 03:34:21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Rolls Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 72 Electric sports aerosElectric glidersSlope (very occassional) Started with chuck gliders in 1946/7Flown everything except helicopters, from indoor microfilm to C/L team racers over the years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Davis Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 62 next month IC Sport Electric Sport One Fokker Triplane! Started aged 11 or 12 with a Keil Kraft Ajax rubber powered model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 46 Elec - sport, scale, aero First proper model at the age of 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby159 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 55 Elec Sport IC ScaleIC Sport Started aged 9 or 10 with a Keil Kraft rubber powered model, first IC Cox control line age 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 one of the younger forumites........ 57 ic glider's heli's(badly) indoor started in the 60's with 'mercury midge'...keil kraft ajax ...jetex...airfix.. ken anderson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultymate Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 64 years young IC aerobatics including 3D slope combat and aeros Helis IC 12 years old started with control line combat Peacemaker and inumerable flying wings Happy Days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Brooks Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 68 (What happened?) i/c sport Occasional electric glider(!) about 12. KK Super Cub rubber powered, Then a Southener Mite with an E.D. baby from Santa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryce Allcorn - BritFlight.co.uk Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 32 Elec other Elec Sport Elec Semi-Scale Elec Aerobatics (incl 3D) Heli ElecHeli I.C. ( not much now). 'helped' Dad with his planes from 7 or 8 years old, he let me fly one at similar age but my own stuff had to wait until secondary school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.A. Barry Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 61 I/C Scale I/C Sport Taipan Trainer (c/l) with taipan 2.5cc diesel 11 yrs old, (did a lot of odd jobs to save up that much...then) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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