Mike Palko

I HAD MY first experience with electric flight when I was 10
years old. I broke my plastic CL RTF model after just a few flights,
and after that my dad and I decided to build an electric-powered RC
trainer together. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, because, as
with my RC cars, I just had to charge the batteries and turn the
model on to fly. But its flight performance wasn’t too successful,
and I quickly lost interest in it.
Shortly after that I was introduced to a club called the Philly
Fliers. I became interested in CL flying and haven’t looked back. It
wasn’t until 1997, at the age of 17, that I became interested in
electric flight again, and I built my first electric-powered Precision
Aerobatics (Stunt) model.