A 60-year journeyBy Neil Liptak crtrmmodel@aol.comPhotos by the author As seen in the October 2025 issue of Model Aviation. Most modelers who are reading this have built model airplanes from kits. I have been building RC model aircraft for much longer than I care to mention. Ever since I started rolling down this runway, my earliest recollections are stealing the box of straight pins from my mom’s sewing kit and pinning balsa parts to a cardboard building board over wing plans of a Comet stick kit.These kits came with all of the part outlines printed in blue ink onto the…