Once upon a time when I was a knobby kneed 6 year old, my father and several of his friends were building a Pietenpol Air Camper. The fuselage construction was done at the St. Catharines Airport. The wing all 30 feet of it was built in the basement of our home. The wonderful toxic smells of adhesives and spruce dust that filled our home are still clear memories. I don’t know to this day if the wing rib I helped build ever really made it into the wing, but the damage was done, CF-PEK was born and so was my passion for all things airplane.
As I got older I didn’t know about MAAC or for that matter that there were model clubs, but that didn’t stop me from flying control line starting with the old Cox offerings. I moved to building Goldberg and other combat wings to a botched fiberglass 1/8 scale Fairy Firefly build in plastic tech class in high school. Radio control was an out of reach dream to hold until adulthood.
I learned about MAAC from a friend at work and some years later, now over 34 years ago, I joined the local club and built a Goldberg Eagle 2 on which I quickly became both proficient at flying and deeply and thoroughly hooked.
I’ve had the pleasure of making countless new acquaintances and friends as a MAAC member and have always tried to be a big part of the advancement of the hobby, my club and now hopefully our association.
That’s quite enough about me, I’m here for MAAC and its members and you deserve our best, not, our boast. I’ll do my best to come out to you all and get a sense of what you need.
Cheers!
Carl Cimprich
