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Cheezoholic

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9. Me and a friend got our grandkids hooked on a hobby that they can use their cell phones constructively, RC Planes
Thu Mar 12, 2026, 12:32 PM
Thursday

Not stupid drones, planes. Build them, learn them, fly them. Both kids, one grandson and one granddaughter, are hooked now. They were spending up to 8 hours a day on those phones or video games. Now they fly at the RC park or out here on my property all the time. They've got cameras on the planes and record their flights. They fly pilots eye view with their cellphones receiving the camera video. And the planes today are damn near bullet proof built of foam and composites. Not like the old days when I would spend all winter building a balsa flyer with a 4ft wing span and weed eater engine on it lol. You really learned to fly those because a crash was a months worth of work lol.

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