Winter Garden, Fl

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I have loved flight for as long as I can remember, and now my love and passion has been translated into my designs. Also known as jcannon614 on the forum.

After many years of being absent from the RC hobby, I found myself on Facebook scrolling through my feed. While on the page, I stumbled across one of my favorite pages, Make: Magazine. On this particular post, there was a feature about the “Maker Hanger” featuring Lucas Weekly. Out of my curiosity I jumped onto the Make: website and began to read about how Lucas was taking fellow makers through the process of creating RC aircraft from simple materials like foam board and hot glue. This was not the hobby that I remember from years ago. I was pleasantly surprised at how much more approachable the hobby was, and that an airframe made of foam was so easy to build and fly. After watching countless hours of Lucas, explaining how far technology has come, and learning all about 2.5Ghz and 5-9g servo’s I finally made it to the end of Maker Hanger. It was at this moment that he mentioned 3 channels on YouTube, Stone Blue Airlines, Flite Test and … Needless to say I checked out all of them, and after looking on Flite Test, I was hooked. This was all the inspiration I needed to run to my local dollar tree, break out my wallet and hand over a $5 bill. 5 sheets of foam later and a good amount of spare foam and I had my first PowerPod and FT Old Speedster. While on the Forum and becoming more involved on it, I quickly discovered the number of people passionate about designing and building their own swappable and foam designs. I quickly found Jason Eric Anderson’s Builds on sketchup, and learned how to take the plans from old balsa builds and turn them into flying foam masterpieces. After watching designers like NerdNic, RCSpaceFlight and Filken, I knew I had to jump in the deep and begin to trace out my first designs.