From an early age I have built models.  The first models I remember were plastic models which were mostly airplanes.  In my teens I built two larger balsa wood models of airplanes, one was a glider with a 36 inch wingspan and another was like a 24 inch biwing plane.   Below are some models I built later in life. (see also Model Rockets).

I built the model below of the Spirit of St. Louis in 2005.  I went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for reasearch and took the photo below of the "real" Spirt of St. Louis. It now hangs in my study (2024).