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Avatar User Offline Chuck Curtis
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Posted: May/10/2015 at 9:26am  Quote
 

I was at the QSAA a few years ago and someone walked by and asked: "Why do all these guys have grey hair?"

Good question--Why arn't the young guys building the big stuff?

Chuck Curtis of Montana



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Posted: May/10/2015 at 9:29am  Quote
 
Same reason they/we don't drive Corvettes  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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Posted: May/10/2015 at 10:14am  Quote
 
Define "big stuff".    Bc i know some younger guys with 100-130" models
 
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Posted: May/10/2015 at 11:18am  Quote
 
Define younger.......

Under 50?

Under 40?

30?

 
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Posted: May/10/2015 at 12:12pm  Quote
 
And are we talking "building" as opposed to "assembling"?

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Posted: May/10/2015 at 1:44pm  Quote
 
I would say that the biggest reason is interest, or the lack of interest, in aviation.  We older modelers grew up at a time where the events of WWII were experienced by us, or by our parents.  Also, those events touched the lives of a huge proportion of the world population.  This resulted in a large number of people being interested in aviation and scale modeling.  For the youth of today, those events are some foggy subject lightly covered in a high school history class with no significant personal ties.  Even today's military consists of less than .5% of the US population as compared to 12% during WWII.

Also, today's youth have ready access to other forms of entertainment, that there is a general decline in hobbies of all types.  Even if someone today becomes interested in RC, it's less likely that they would get into scale RC, but more likely that they would become interested in 3D, quads and FPV.

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Posted: May/10/2015 at 2:02pm  Quote
 
Money and space is the issue with me.

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I would add that the free time and resources  that parents have to dedicate to such a demanding hobby are limited, as long as the children are in the home or students.
It is only after they leave that we have the resources to invest in the hobby, the free time to kill, and the extra space in the house.



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