Drones
I've been interested in RC airplanes (and real, or rather, 1:1 scale airplanes) since I was a kid. When I was young a neighbor buddy of mine (I think it was Scott Burnside) got a cheap RC that we immediately crashed in a field, utterly destroying it - it was hard to fly and underpowered. Anyway, as quads got cheaper and more advanced, a good friend of mine (Kent Forsythe) was big into RC and kind of encouragedme to take the leap. So, I think it was for my birthday in 2014 I got the Blade 350 QX below and I've been flying some off-and-on ever since.
Here are the RC models/drones I've bought (and some even flown) since... in reverse chronological order...
Blade 350 QX
EAM Velocity XL/FG
We got this one really just because we had the full-scale kit airplane [[1]]. I wanted to get one for static display and one to fly ([I bought]), but they were too expensive. By the time I could afford a second one, EAM (the Experimental Aircraft Model Company) was out of business. Fortunately, my friends Jerry and Linda Brainard had also bought a kit, and by mid 2020 had decided that they were not going to complete it and let me have it!