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John Gayer
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| I graduated from Cornell with a degree in Electrical Engineering and immediately went to work for Link in Binghamton, NY designing software for commercial air transport training simulators. That company under several corporate disguises moved us around to both northern California and the south coast of England before I switched careers to commercial broadcasting and opened an AM/FM station in Steamboat Springs, CO. After fifteen years there and with the kids now in college, I went back to Link (now named Link-Miles) and flight simulator design. This landed my wife and me in Sydney, Australia in the early 90’s finishing up a 747-400 simulator for Qantas. We were there for the better part of two years before we returned and I went to work for Honeywell in Phoenix, designing aircraft simulation systems to test Honeywell Avionic systems. I recently retired from Honeywell after completing work on a flight control simulation for the Boeing 787. My modeling career started in 1952 building Monogram Redi-Bilt? models. Like many who started out in that era, I got bored with non-flying models and moved up to controlline. Then in 1957 I built a Live Wire Trainer which flew quite well on its own and occasionally responded to commands from the single channel transmitter. I tried reeds but never got the hang of it. After graduating from college and starting a family I found that the world of radio control had changed a lot. I bought my first proportional radio(Orbit, I think) from George Brooks in 1967 or so when he was still running his hobby shop out of his garage in Vestal, NY. While I flew pattern type airplanes for years (Kwik-Fli, Kaos, Mach one) in New York, California and England as we moved around, it took a move to the mountains of Colorado before I attended my first pattern contest in 1978. I was hooked. Those were good days for pattern. I think there were 5 contests in Colorado plus more in Nevada, Montana and New Mexico and I got to as many as I could. I progressed through the classes, attending four US NATS, one Australian NATS and two Australian KraftMasters over three decades. Never placed very well in any of them but I had a great time. I am now once again actively flying advanced pattern and sportsman IMAC while based in Albuquerque after taking 10 years off from pattern and flying in general. I am currently in the process of switching from YS to electric. Finally saw the light. Hope it’s not a train…. |
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