hi Kang
Sounds like a good reason to fly indoor models... the graceful
tranquil freedom of flight is soothing stuff
kind regards... Jack Metcalf, Adelaide, Australia
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Subject:[Indoor_Construction] On Indoor Flying
Larry Cailliau is one of the inductees to the NFFS Hall of Fame in
2013. Here is what he wrote in 1984 about why he (and we) fly
indoors.
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By Larry Cailliau
I often ask myself why I travel half way around the world, expose
myself to physical exhaustion and spend hours at painstaking
precision model building. I most often ask myself this question after
a rough day of flying when all I got to show for it is a fist full of
extremely light micrometer cut balsa sticks.
All this effort is certainly not due to monetary value. Then why am
I doing it?
Some people feel that friendship and competition is worth it and
they have a valid point. Model building and flying particularly
indoor flying is great therapy to take one's mind away from the
hustle and bustle of the modern-day world.
There is something indoor flyers have in common that I can't put my
finger on. I do know that it has something to do with the flight of
the model aircraft. It is the slow, graceful and dreamlike image that
an F1D gives that makes people stare in wonderment. Cezar Banks calls
it an "aura," for the lack of a better description.
The Japanese, known for their philosophy, seem to relate it to
freedom. According to the president of the Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting
Col, the "sight of model airplanes flying unmanned through the air
seems to embody our subconscious desires for freedom."
If you are the kind of person who stops to watch a hawk float
effortlessly in the sky, then indoor flying could be the answer to
recapture those calm and peaceful moments that are so rare in today's
fast-paced life.
I still can't put my finger on the exact reason why I enjoy indoor
flying, but maybe the models, seemingly suspended in mi-air, transfer
naturally to me that tranquil feeling that so many people seem to have
lost in the 20th Century.
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