A BIT OF HISTORY. For me, micro flight for the masses began in 1965. Until that time the smallest and lightest RC models were the home built  products of a few pioneers, like the late Howard McEntee. But in 1965 at Bill Northrop’s trade show in California one exhibitor – Hobby Club – displayed and sold a new RC set from Czechoslavakia that could be installed in models that weighed only about 2 ounces with the radio installed. The RC set was called the CETO and with transmitter, receiver, and actuator sold for $ 100.

I bought the set at the show and brought it home to the East coast. I installed it in a half size version of my 1950’s design, the Control Researcher, and powered it with a little CO2 motor – this was before little electric motors became popular for small RC models. Wherever I flew the model and especially when I showed it at that year’s WRAMS trade show in New York, tremendous interest was shown by other modelers who wanted to know more about the radio and the model.

As a result of the interest shown I created a monthly printed publication called the CETO Newsletter, which later became the Cloud 9 Micro RC Newsletter. I sold subscriptions to it which were postal mailed. The newsletter was all about what what was happening in the world of what became known as micro flight. Near the end of 1999 I was asked by Tom Atwood, now head of Fly RC magazine but back then with Air Age, Inc., to produce the newsletter for them to be called RC MicroFlight, which would include other authors of micro flight articles. Thus I became the Founding Editor of that publication which lasted until February of 2005, when Air Age discontinued it.

Response from previous subscribers resulted in my establishing RC Micro World in May 2005, as an online-only computerized publication to take the place of RC Micro Flight.  That transition has been successful and here we are, three years later, with the only publication devoted solely to micro RC, with a thousand subscribers from thirty countries around the world.

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