My ex did a vacation trip without me one year.

While she was gone I picked up this Gentle Lady that was already built plus it had a power pod and a hi-start and the radio was installed.

I think it was a four channel Futaba radio.

We had a lot of fun with this at Lebreton Flats, Hurdman Hill and other cool venues.  It was 195 bucks so that’s some pretty serious fun when you think a pair of sneakers or soccer shoes was a hundred bucks and they are outgrown pretty fast. I found another one similar with no hi-start or power pod so I picked it up. So we had two of these things for some time.

It was an awesome summer of slope soaring, sailing in thermals and other fun.

He was starting to get into some science stuff at school as well. So the RC equipment maintenance would work in concert with this sort of stuff.

The following Christmas I got a small three channel Katydid (Airtronics) and a Cox Helicopter with an 049 engine.

We spent a lot of time at Lebreton Flats. It’s a shame they re-purposed that area into a museum.