I Am the AMA: Jim Colwell

I Am The AMAMember of the Quartzsite Desert FlyersBy Jay Smith | jays@modelaircraft.org  JAY SMITH: How did you become involved with model aviation?JIM COLWELL:A friend of mine in the U.S. Air Force from Chicago, who was also an in-flight aerial refuel boom operator like me, had a Control Line (CL) model aircraft. I watched him fly it and I got interested in learning how to build and fly CL model aircraft.He went on to teach three of us. Not being able to easily obtain or afford tissue for covering our models, we covered our aircraft using the Sunday colored "funny papers." These…