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Hi Fellow Heliadicts
Hello! I am John from Halifax in West Yorkshire. All my friends think I am mad starting this new hobby at 50. I started with fixed wing at ten years old building gliders and band powered balsa kits before progressing onto control line. Radio control was just out of reach at that time, my pocket money wasn't much. I turned to model engineering building working steam locomotives up to one third scale. Having done this for over twenty years the challenge isn't there anymore.
This last xmas my eldest asked me what present I would like, I told him a Helicopter! Having persuaded the other half its a life long goal I purchased a Blade 400. My only heli experience has been with co-axials prior to this.
So far two flights and one crash, just putting it back together and setting it all back up. Have turned a swash plate levelling tool out of alloy bar whilst waiting for the bits to arrive.
As soon as time and the weather permits I shall have another go.
A pheonix flight sim is on my birthday present list after alot of hinting to the wife, may reduce the damage bill.
Anyway, thanks for having me.
John.
This last xmas my eldest asked me what present I would like, I told him a Helicopter! Having persuaded the other half its a life long goal I purchased a Blade 400. My only heli experience has been with co-axials prior to this.
So far two flights and one crash, just putting it back together and setting it all back up. Have turned a swash plate levelling tool out of alloy bar whilst waiting for the bits to arrive.
As soon as time and the weather permits I shall have another go.
A pheonix flight sim is on my birthday present list after alot of hinting to the wife, may reduce the damage bill.
Anyway, thanks for having me.
John.
By the way, there are many of us in our 40s and 50s on here; I will be 52 in April, and been flying helis for a touche over 3 years.
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