Why bother
to build? Isn’t it better to just buy a ready made model?
Here’s a
section off a preface in a book entitled “How to Design and Build Flying
Models”:
The great failing of the hobby, as it is practiced by millions of
men, boys (and girls!) today, is the withering away of resourceful initiative,
a natural result of the trend to prefabrication, ready-to-use items, and things
that require little or no basic know-how.
The modern hobby overlaps more and more with the toy field. If
model planes are to remain more than toys, keeping traditional values of
training and worthwhile accomplishment, it becomes highly important to
understand why and how a plane flies. For a model-plane builder not to have
this understanding would be like a doctor lacking the ability to diagnose his
patients' complaints. Unthinkable!
And this
book was published in 1970.
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