[Spridgets] Old guys

[Bill Miller - LBCs]

What is with the relationship of Little British Cars, model airplanes, and guns?

 

Except I still like control line flying best.  J

 

Bill

 

From: Spridgets [mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Michael MacLean via Spridgets
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:02 AM
To: CosmicMag1380; CosmicMag1380 via Spridgets; Spridgets
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Old guys

 

I second what Kent said.  I just turned 67 and find the dame thing at gun shows and i also build model airplanes.  Now that I am retired i am in a indoor free flight club.  I think I am the youngest guy in the club.  My son helps me with the Bugeye with maintenance and he loves to drive it.  How many of us are involved with our father's hobbies.  I still go upland bird hunting like I did with my Dad.  I think you will be lucky if your kids find interest in just one of your hobbies.  

     Kent, ready to fly model airplanes are still RC.  Better than the hobby dying out.  In all the years I have been involved with model airplanes it has been constantly evolving.  

     Your kids are not you.  They have their own interests developed by their own experiences.  Hopefully, some of those experiences and interests intersect with ours.

Mike MacLean

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:07 AM, CosmicMag1380 via Spridgets

<spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

I turned 65 last December... I have been noticing for quite a while that MANY things are going to the wayside. When us old guys are gone, so are a lot of things that we take for granted. I did an R/C aircraft show last year and could count the number of young guys walking around the show on one hand! Nobody wants to actually build a plane anymore... If you can't buy it, charge it and fly it, it won't sell. It was at a county fairgrounds field house with over 200 tables. Almost all old white guys - I did see 2 older black guys there.

 

Same with both of my gun clubs, my car club, etc. Hopefully I'll live long enough to get my grandkids interested in real hobbies instead of video games. My kids don't care about my Bugeye, tools, R/C stuff or fishing gear. My guns are worth money so they will probably take them and sell 'em when I'm gone. At least my granddaughters like to reload ammo with me!

 

Anybody wanna by a boat? Trying to downsize even though I built a bigger shed...

 

Kent

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