[Today’s run: rest day]
I was cruising through wikipedia a bit today, like I often do. Somehow I got into some pages about glow-plug engines for model planes and cars.
I the 1970’s I was into glow-plug planes and cars for awhile. It started with a Cox Shrike, a green car powered by a little airplane engine and propeller. We used to take that thing down to the school yard and run it free across the asphalt. Mine had a rollbar. So it would get to the end of the pavement then bounce around and probably flip over. We would go get it and fire it up again and aim it back.
Then I did a little bit with control-line airplanes. That’s where you stand in the middle of a circle and your plane goes around and around you, tied to a handle by two wires.
I got into model rocketry just a little bit.
And I built a “free flight” plane which I had just about finished but never flew.
I never did get into radio control airplanes; too expensive for me. About the time I was getting a job and had some money, I was out of planes and off to other stuff.
Do they let junior high kids play with nitromethane and glow plugs anymore?