By Norm Rosenstock Photos courtesy of the author As seen in the February 2002 issue of Model Aviation .When I was a youngster going to school, I—as did many kids my age—thought history was a bore. Who cares what some old guy said or did years ago? What does that have to do with me, here and now? The answer was to come soon enough. At the age of eight, I saw a model airplane for the first time. In school, we had what is now called show-and-tell, and one of my classmates brought in a beautiful rubber-powered model airplane he had built. It had…