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	Chuck Curtis Basic Member	Joined: April/15/2015 United States Posts: 3 IP Logged
Posted: May/10/2015 at 9:26am		Quote

I was at the QSAA a few years ago and someone walked by and asked: "Why do all these guys have grey hair?"

Good question--Why arn't the young guys building the big stuff?

Chuck Curtis of Montana

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	marmbrust Lifetime Site Supporter	Joined: February/03/2009 United States Posts: 5151 IP Logged
Posted: May/10/2015 at 9:29am		Quote

Same reason they/we don't drive Corvettes $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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	invertmast Site Supporter	Joined: November/07/2008 United States Posts: 6284 IP Logged
Posted: May/10/2015 at 10:14am		Quote

Define "big stuff". Bc i know some younger guys with 100-130" models

	Pamw Basic Member	Joined: December/06/2014 United States Posts: 473 IP Logged
Posted: May/10/2015 at 11:18am		Quote

Define younger.......

Under 50?

Under 40?

30?

	J_Whitney Moderator Group	Joined: November/10/2003 United States Posts: 7411 IP Logged
Posted: May/10/2015 at 12:12pm		Quote

And are we talking "building" as opposed to "assembling"?

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	saramos Lifetime Site Supporter	Joined: March/03/2005 United States Posts: 418 IP Logged
Posted: May/10/2015 at 1:44pm		Quote

I would say that the biggest reason is interest, or the lack of interest, in aviation. We older modelers grew up at a time where the events of WWII were experienced by us, or by our parents. Also, those events touched the lives of a huge proportion of the world population. This resulted in a large number of people being interested in aviation and scale modeling. For the youth of today, those events are some foggy subject lightly covered in a high school history class with no significant personal ties. Even today's military consists of less than .5% of the US population as compared to 12% during WWII.

Also, today's youth have ready access to other forms of entertainment, that there is a general decline in hobbies of all types. Even if someone today becomes interested in RC, it's less likely that they would get into scale RC, but more likely that they would become interested in 3D, quads and FPV.

Scott

	TankHunter Lifetime Site Supporter	Joined: July/01/2004 United States Posts: 492 IP Logged
Posted: May/10/2015 at 2:02pm		Quote

Money and space is the issue with me.

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	yoram Lifetime Site Supporter	Joined: April/15/2006 Israel Posts: 463 IP Logged
Posted: May/10/2015 at 2:25pm		Quote

I would add that the free time and resources that parents have to dedicate to such a demanding hobby are limited, as long as the children are in the home or students.

It is only after they leave that we have the resources to invest in the hobby, the free time to kill, and the extra space in the house.

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