John in Boston

Lifelong aeronautics guy, born in 1955 in a Southern California shoreline aerospace milieu. Grew up in the 1960s doing balsa bits and glue and nitromethane with siblings and friends, making a mess in pretty much all facets of the model airplane hobby, always without much money to spend.

Years later I began flying 1:1 scale aircraft, learning via vintage taildraggers on turf airstrips on wheels and skis. For better of worse I got into some aircraft ownership "learning the hard way" blues, i.e., needing to do a fair bit of restoration work on a 1946 Aeronca 7AC Champ and then a 1943 L-3B Defender. Raise a glass to the thrills and spills of learning by doing (suffering).
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These days I am downsizing and simplifying, with a primary focus on designing/building/flying PSS --- "Power Scale Slope", as in, slope-soaring gliders that are scale models of jet or propeller-driven aircraft. I'm interested in that balance between scale fidelity and airworthiness. I also love vintage-style stick and tissue free-flight scale with the Flying Aces Club, but I'm not able thus far to balance both hobbies. I struggle with getting much done on the building board.

And now I am trying FrSky for the first time, learning the ropes on a Taranis X-Lite S.
Also I have two FrSky DHT kits that have not yet been been utilized on my older AM and FM R/C gear.