I Am The AMA: Derek Micko

Model builder, designer, and author By Jay Smith | jays@modelaircraft.org JAY SMITH: How did you become involved with model aviation? DEREK MICKO: My dad (Jeff Micko) was active in RC and Scale modeling before I was born, so I grew up at flying fields surrounded by model airplanes. Many a great Minnesota summer day was spent at our club or a local Scale event. When I was old enough to start to learn to fly, internal-combustion (IC) engines were the common power source, and so my first trainers were glow, as were the models that followed. During college, I moved from IC to…