My father, an airline and USAF pilot, introduced me to model airplanes at an early age. I was building balsa Free Flight and Control Line models at the age of 6. I never stopped. I discovered RC in 1979, when I was 15, and spent my life savings ($250) on my first Kraft radio system.
I attended the United States Air Force Academy and earned an aeronautical engineering degree. I went on to USAF pilot training, where my first assignment after graduation was to serve as a flight instructor in the T-37. My next assignment was to fly F-16s, and I eventually transferred to the Colorado Air National Guard. I never stopped building and flying model airplanes throughout all of my full-scale flying.
