It's all about going fast. If you're a speed junkie, there's not a lot of things you can do where you can go 200 mph and not get hurt or not get in trouble. So, it's a good speed fix. Also, I've always loved aviation, since I was little, and it's more accessible than full-scale aviation.

I used to drive cars very fast, but then you have a child and a wife and a house, and you kind of think about that. I raced go carts for a while, and that was my speed fix a couple of years ago. And when you're an inch off the ground going 100 mph, I'd get back in my car and obey the speed limit, 'cause it didn't matter any more: you know, I got my speed fix.

I have a five-year-old boy, and he loves the whole thing, too. He's always in the garage with me. I'll be working on the plane, and he'll have some little project that he's working on, with all his tools and all. And there's lot of work you have to do. They're real turbine jet engines, so you have scaled-down components of what a real full-sized jet plane would have in them, so it is fairly complicated.

This has become literally an obsession, with the jets. It's like anything humans do: you enjoy it, you usually do it to excess. But my family's taken care of, and my son likes it, and my wife's glad I'm not addicted to something else!

I've crashed some RC airplanes pretty bad, but not a jet. But it happens. You have to accept it; it's one of those things. Getting into the hobby, you have to know, yeah, you might lose what you put a lot of money in, and even more so, time into. It's upsetting, you don't want it to happen, but it does, and you pick up and repair or rebuild, and you do it again!