Stephen Scotto

MODEL AVIATION, June 1996, page 56: "Where are the Juniors?" I have heard this question repeated a thousand times, along with the breast-beating about video games, complex models, lack of free time, no access to the field, the decline of Western society, lack of family values, sunspots, etc. With the references to gray angels, retirement, and diminishing ranks, we all know that the hobby of model aviation, along with the participants, is dying off as surely as the passenger pigeon. Except it just ain't so. Hard to believe? Well, "conventional wisdom" might be all wrong and I got some numbers to think about.