My "Ethnographic Essay" is going to be on a club here in St. George called "Remote Possibilities" It is a "Remote Control airplane club" which is mostly made up of old retired rich people. My dad was a co-founder of this club in the mid 1980's and since then has been turned into an 80 headed monster. The old people that belong to this club seem to have nothing better to do but complain and talk crap all day about everyone, and everything. I am not actively involved with the club so I find what they say and do very humerous. I have a lot of good questions to ask them, like what brought them into the hobby, and how do they afford it? Does it cost marital discord, because it costs so much!? I should find doing this project most enlightning.
I would ask them if they have ever considered (or have) ramming their plane into another guy's just because of a disagreement.
ReplyDeleteAlso, is there a specific plane that they would love to have.
When I'm old and rich that's what I'm going to do. How much time do they spend flying there planes? Do their spouses ever get jealous because all their free time is taken up by the planes?
ReplyDeleteDo they build the planes themselves or do they come preassemlbed?