I was obsessed with flying machines in my younger years.
Before I graduated high school I had built and flown: radio-controlled gliders, hot air balloons, a variety of paper gliders, rubber-band powered balsa models, a welded steel glider that “flew” underwater, model rockets, hot air ballooons, rising parachutes, and various kites and kite-string-climbers.
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More at my Substack post.
