Shirt like the one I am wearing in this picture? ( kid in the back row, center).
I still have the hat, and it fits fine, but I think the shirt shrunk :icon_razz:
(https://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=434081&d=1375343499)
It's neat to see the board is still up and running. I was away playing Army, I got back a couple months after Art passed. I went and saw Peggy, but after that... I just kinda faded away from building, and flying for a bit. It was all new people at the flying field, and other friends moved along in one way or another. Raised the kids, and went to work in a crazy job like a grown-up ( 2 stars, would not recommend ).
Retired from the 911 gig after 30 years, and now board out of my mind. One of the guys from the local field found me, and now I'm back into building ( With real sticks, and wood).
Every couple years I would clean up the shop, and wonder what happened to everyone on this board. It was a good crew, and a large part of my early 20's :icon_mrgreen:
Ken.
Still here. Retired after 34 years at the airlines. Don't do RC anymore, though. And I have no idea where my FUBAR shirt ended up. I think one of the grandkids got it.... :icon_mrgreen:
Welcome back! I don't think there are any left of those shirts unfortunately.
I haven't flown in a couple years now, still got everything in the way though, and have been itching to get out a little.
Kinda the same here,
I have not really flown anything in the last few years.
For a bit, my kid was "sorta" interested, so I got him a couple of the Radian Gliders. He lost interest pretty quick.
He does like aviation, and is now working on his 2nd year in the Air Force as a "Crew Chief" on B-52H's
Why anyone would choose turning wrenches on a Bomber in NoDak with their history of weather is beyond me, but... He chose his own adventure lol :)
I got suckered into getting back into the hobby by a pretty cool " old guy" that used to fly at our local field ( that is no longer being used for planes, it went full on R/C Car, and quadcopter racing). he is now in his early 80's, gets around just fine... but his wife does not like him driving 40 miles away, and flying alone at a public flying field in the Seattle area.. ( I cant blame her, Seattle is the land of crazy). My family has a small 15 acre farm out of town. Maybe I will just mow one of the pastures at the back, and we can fly some smaller stuff there. 10 min drive from his place, or mine. Truth is.. We both like to build more than fly anyway, so we are more testing our builds out, then moving on to the next build. So many foam planes now. I'm not any foam, just seems to easy :)
34 year with the Airlines, that must be nice to be done with. I have a couple buddies that fly for Alaska, another one flys for AA. All great guys ( and one gal), but you can tell they are ready to retire after all these years.
Eric, I told my wife that I was back on this board, and the first thing she asked is if your wife still makes " Goat Soap"? That was such a hit in our family back then... My wife gave that stuff out to everyone for christmas that year :icon_mrgreen:
Sadly no, after her initial business success and attention, so many others start doing it, it came to a point we had to get bigger to and try and get into stores and get more automated etc, she decided to quit selling it and opportunity came up to work for the post office as a rural carrier. Eventually has traded her milk goats for milk cows. But thanks for asking and remembering!
I have still have several kits, but have no room to do any of them any more, other "hobbies" have pushed it all to the shelves in our little house and my plane room is now stacked up with power tools, ammo cans and stuff that can't be gotten rid of despite not using it. I got into electric foamies (I know, blasphemy) but even that got back burnered, apparently this getting older thing turns into a full time job, on top of the other jobs I get to do that seem to take longer and a lot more effort than I remember.
So much truth with " Other Hobbies".. :icon_mrgreen:
I still have enough ammo cans to build an epic ammo can fort.
My wife has 2 more years to work at the 911 center. She has also, along with her sister been running their coffee roasting business. lots of crazy.
We're ready to move out of this zone of nut cases, and the family has property in Idaho. cant wait to get moved over. Still looking around the Stevensville Montana area, but with the property already just on the other side of the line... well, who knows.. I do know that this West Coast thing is not going jive with us. The kids are now grown, and doing their own thing.
For a few months in the couple years I lived in MT in the late 70s, we lived just outside of Stevensville before we moved to CO. Most of the time was spent on a ranch outside of Corvallis a little farther south of it though. The Bitterroot valley back then was still awesome for low population and land and river access. Went back through like 20 years or so ago and was shocked how it had grown. And the occasional glance through google street view it's all unrecognizable anymore. :icon_neutral:
Back then Corvallis was much smaller, like 350 people, and only dirt streets, The only pavement was the highway that runs through the east side. Even though its still relatively small, has something like 1200 now. There were houses not housing developments. The bar would have monthly street dances in the summer which was like a moth to a flame for teenagers, and got pretty wild at times. Still relatively speaking is probably more traditional American than the west coast, but has grown so much none of that remains. I sure lament the loss of those days even if not so peaceful and perfect. Now I know what those old codgers felt like when I rolled my eyes at them reminiscing about the good old days as I was thinking it didn't sound so fun to me working like they did just to live.
Anyway, ID is good, hope you escape without too much trouble. :icon_smile:
Quote from: Onepoint on March 03, 2026, 02:39:43 PMAnyway, ID is good, hope you escape without too much trouble. :icon_smile:
LOL
It will happen one way or the other.
When I was a kid, I spent a little time living in Plentywood MT.
Talk about nothing, and everything for a kid to do at the same time :)