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Kirt Blattenberger BSEE - KB3UON My Engineering Web: RF Cafe Carpe Diem! (Seize the Day!) Even during the busiest times of my life I have endeavored to maintain some form of model building activity. This site has been created to help me chronicle my journey through a lifelong involvement in model aviation, which all began in Mayo, MD ...
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My Main Modeling Websites
Academy of Model Aeronautics Tower Hobbies Horizon Hobby Sig Mfg Brodak Mfg

Model Aviation Magazine, AMA - Airplanes and Rockets

Photo Collection #1 - The Early Years

Here are a few links to pages I have regarding my days of yore:

- Holly Hill Harbor

- Model airplanes

- Model boats

- Electrical / electronics projects

- Model helicopters

- Model rockets

- My model train

- Woodworking projects

- Photos of earlier times

- 1969 Camaro SS

- Southern Senior High School Yearbook (Harwood, Maryland)

• Senior Class "Official" Photos

• Senior Class Childhood Photos

- Parole Plaza, Annapolis, Maryland

Other pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

If you are bored, you can read the short bio I wrote of my boyhood neighborhood in Holly Hill Harbor.

Jetco Shark 15 C/L Airplane w/Fox .15 Engine

Mayo, MD (circa 1970)

Kirt with Cox PT-19 Trainer - Airplanes and Rockets

Me with my Cox PT-19 Trainer. In the background is my Estes 651-RB-1 metal "Range Box" that doubled as a model airplane field box. (circa 1969)

My 1st RC System - OS Digital 3-Channel. It was installed in a crudely built air boat I made from Styrofoam covered with Solarfilm. - Mayo, MD (circa 1974)

OS Digital 3-Channel Radio Control System - Airplanes and Rockets

OS Digital 3-Channel Advertisement - I'm still hoping to find one on eBay for an affordable price. The ones that have shown up thus far have sold in the $400 realm, which is was over my budget (I don't even have health insurance!).

DuBro Tri-Star Helicopter, Dumas Pride of Pay'n Pak Unlimited Hydroplane, Aquila RC glider with ABS plastic fuselage

Barracks at Robins AFB, GA (circa 1980)

Giant Rubber Free Flight Taylorcraft

Mayo, MD (circa 1972)

Aquila RC glider builtfrommRCM PlansRCM Plans. It was my senior year (1976) at Southern Senior High School, in Harwood, Maryland (in background)

Aquila at Southern Senior HS, Harwood, Maryland w/water tower in background (circa 1975-76)