Flying airplanes

One of my earliest memories is of building a hot air balloon with some newspaper, twine, cardboard, and some sticks. I was convinced that if I set the sticks in the balloon basket on fire, the balloon would rise and fly away. It turns out people have been making sky lanterns for a long time!

I built many balsa wood planes of all sizes up to radio controlled planes with 5 foot wingspans. But flying big planes was always the dream.