My husband Dave saw me messing with my dad’s old RC plane stuff , seeing that I had interest in it, he surprised me with a Parkzone Cub for my Birthday.
9/11/04 was my first flight 
with the delays from fixing damages and fear holding me back of trying again so quick, I never got the hang of it.
2005 – Dave surprised me again, he got me the Mini Sportster. 
I put the plane together, so nicely done, I was too afraid to try to fly it, fearing I will wreak it, it hung on the wall for awhile. (where the engagement photo used to hang) LOL
I continued to fly the Parkzone cub, tough bird, easy to fix and parts always available.
While visiting my parents in the Catskills, I noticed on Event calendar “NEAT Fair” RC airplanes, I went to check it out, the first time I ever saw so many planes, all types, wicked speed, hovering, stunts and Night Flyer 9/17/05
My interest to fly has peaked again after see all this.
Christmas 2005 – Dave got me a U Can Do EP Flex, – goofy foamy plane
The Mini Sportster continues to hang on wall, I got the UCD put together. Early spring 2006 – Flight was a blur, got one lap and slammed into ground, didn’t know it then but plane had too much throw and only made it worse that I tried flying it almost at full throttle. This foam was easy to fix, can’t even see where it ripped.
2006 May – found a club, getting help, made new friends, making more attempts to fly every week, now I am starting to show some improvements!
Learning fast now.
2006 Summer – First Glow plane – donation from Haggie
Trikes are hard to taxi, still can’t hold it strait for take off.
2006 Sept- Mini Sportster finally came off the wall, Rodney maiden it and trimmed it out before giving me the controls, Nice cruising plane.
2006-2007 Winter – Jason Bills gave me a U Can Do 60 that he retired.
March – flew it with a Laser 100 which keep stalling on me, since I was interested in 3D, I gave in and bought a brand new Satio 100.
2007 April – First Gas plane, 1/4 scale Cap with Zenoah G-38
Old plane chugged along on full throttle (demolished when motor mount broke loose in fall 2007)
2007 Summer – Haggie had bunch of planes forsale at a meeting, and I saw the Carl Goldberg Extra 330 airframe.
I really liked the Gas plane, love the sound of it and easier for me to start (I can’t hold an electric starter one handed, hands are too small). I thought this would be a good replacement of the Cap and bought it for a good deal, and got all new servos for it.
The Extra flew good, was nervous with it, was getting glitches, I finally got a used Futaba 9c and put a PCM receiver in the Extra. Then one day in spring of 2008, finally getting used to the Extra, did a nice take off strait out in front of me, 400 ft out it just glided back down wing hitting first. PCM lockout I assume, two possibilities I found, ignition switch too close to voltwatch display or antenna on TX had loose segments.
Sold the Mini Sporster to buy the Fliton mini Extra 260
2008 July – Ordered a new plane, TowerHobbies had a Carl Goldberg Edge 540 on sale for $250
same size as the Extra but lighter, also replaced the G-38 with a First Place Engines (FPE) 40cc.
Brought it with me to Huckfest CT but was too nervous to fly it, I did not feel it was ready yet, the FPE 40cc was used and wasn’t getting the RPM as it should, replaced propeller with 3W wood, which helped a little. Good thing I didn’t fly it at Huckfest, it stalled, dead sticked it in safely to find my ignition wire pulled out of coil. Later I fitted a carbon fiber prop and got it up to 6,800 RPM on 20×8.