Why We Are Here
With 70+ years of combined experience in the RC hobby world we are dedicated to helping new comers and old timers alike to better enjoy our great hobby. If it flies, we love it and we will do our best to bring you real life reviews and tips so you know exactly what to expect when you make your next purchase or set out to build/repair your latest model It is our goal to review and discuss each product we touch in a real and relevant way. There will be no official form that we work from because we feel this put us in a proverbial box. We don’t want to force ourselves into something that will take away from the product or idea we are trying to introduce you to. Add this to our dedication to have actual experience with a product before broadcasting our ideas and we think you will find our content to have more substance and value. Please follow along and don’t hesitate to reach out with any suggestions as to things you would like to see or format you would like to see it in.
Who Is John Reid
John doing what he does best and enjoys most.
John has been working at photography most of his adult life. He has been widely published, and teaching it at the college level over 19 years.
He also started flying RC aircraft right out of high school which eventually led to a full-time position at Air Age Media in 2002. John was the West Coast Senior Editor of Model Airplane News and Electric flight and also the Senior Editor for RotorDrone Magazine from it’s inception. John has now been involved with drones for over 10 years.
John has authored a good number of articles on drone photography and videography, along with numerous reviews on many of today’s popular drones. Currently, John is a licensed 107 pilot and he shoots drone footage for a number of video stock agencies along with doing drone work for advertising and short films.
John also brings a wide range of video editing and Photoshop skills which are sure to add flair and beauty to our content.
Who Is Jason Benson
Jason with his DA200 powered 42% Dalton, Extra 300ML.
Jason started flying RC when he was 7 years old. Over the years he has flown pretty much every form of RC model. From micro electrics to giant scale acrobats, helicopters to turbine powered jets, and everything in between. If it flies he wants to try it out.
Jason started working as a contributor with Air Age Media in 2007 and wrote over 100 reviews and articles for their publications. These include Model Airplane News, Electric Flight, and RotorDrone Magazine. Beyond written contributions Jason also provided “How To” videos on various aerobatic maneuvers to try to help other modelers better their flying.
Since 2008 Jason has been heavily involved in the sport of IMAC. He flew the Tucson Aerobatic Shootout four times, the US NATS in IMAC twice, the Clover Creek Invitational in 2010, and also represented the US team at the 2014 IMAC worlds in the Advanced class.
Jason also really enjoys 3D flying with Giant Scale aircraft. He finds this form of flying very relaxing and loves working toward learning new maneuvers. As we mentioned above Jason enjoys all aspects of RC so there is generally an FPV racing quad copter, and FPV racing wing, and a camera drone in the truck ready to go at any time.
Jason’s day job is as a Cisco Voice Over IP engineer. Other hobbies include photography, boating, playing trumpet, and most anything outdoors.