Cirrus Aircraft vice presidentBy Jay Smith | jays@modelaircraft.org JAY SMITH: How did you become involved with model aviation?JIM ALMAN: My dad. He won his early flying lessons by building a Piper Cub model, was a lifelong full-scale pilot who flew until he was 84 years old, and a lifelong modeler as well. We built and flew Free Flight (FF), Control Line (CL), and mostly RC aircraft when I was growing up. We continued throughout our adult lives. Quite often, we flew the Bonanza, and then went to the AMA field [in Miami, Florida] and flew model aircraft. I guess we just couldn’t…