
I think I was a pretty normal child, but there are lots of pictures of me as a kid playing with rubber band airplanes. I started building plastic models around the 5th grade. In junior high school I was completely crazy about control-line airplanes, and in high school I moved up to R/C. In those days, R/C planes were still incredibly expensive, and I remember begging my parents for one. They bought me a single-channel OS radio. Now that I think about it, I always had airplanes nearby.
我想我曾经是一个相当平凡的男孩,但是很多童年照片里都有我玩橡皮筋飞机的样子。我在小学五年级开始学着组装塑料飞机模型。在国中时我曾经一度沉迷于线管控飞机并且在高中时入了R/C飞机的坑(以油气为燃烧动力的航模)。在当时,R/C飞机依旧是难以想象地昂贵而且我还记得缠着父母想买一架。于是他们给我买了一个单频道操作无线电(应该就是我们小时候玩遥控赛车的那种遥控器)。只要心里想想这个,就总感觉身边会有很多飞机(小池繁夫年轻时的yy梦?)。