Written by Alain Adam, Metamora, Michigan
My love for model aviation started at age 10 in Jos, Nigeria, when my father’s friend gave me a Graupner Super Flitzer Control Line plane with a Graupner Taifun diesel engine. He was leaving Nigeria to return to Germany and knew that I was fascinated by planes.
I was born in Nigeria after my French father and Lebanese mother went to explore the area for work after World War II. My father was in the Free French Forces in the Syria/Lebanon/Palestine region during the war and upon return to France, could not find work so they decided to…
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