I grew up in the hobby - dad started flying RC in 1974, about a year before I was born. I started flying at 7 years old and built my second trainer a year later. I began flying pattern at age 12, and that was my focus until the early ‘90’s when IMAC started take off.
By the mid 1990’s I stopped competing to go to Penn State University. For about 10 years I was heavily involved with drag racing and restoring/modifying small block V8 Muscle cars, racing mountain bikes, and flying full scale planes.
Most of my RC flying has revolved around precision aerobatics (IMAC & Pattern) I’ve had the great opportunity to learn building and set up techniques from some of the best in the hobby. I have designed, built and flown about 10 of my own design planes, one of which was used successfully in Pattern.
By 2006 I was back to competing in IMAC going to 10-17 events a year winning dozens of regional events including regional championships. I also competed in the US Nationals 5 years, finishing in the finals in every class and finishing 2nd twice in Advanced. 2014 was the first IMAC Worlds which I competed in the Advance class and finished 4th. I continued into Unlimited winning regional contests until 2017 I decided to focus on jets.
Currently, I am consumed with turbine jets; starting the first F3S contests here in the US and competed in the first Red Flag Jet Invitational finishing 5th in the sport jet class 2016. I am involved with scale jets and airplanes; competed in two Top Guns with my CARF - Models F-100, finishing 5th and 3rd in Pro Jet. I started with CARF- Models as a team pilot back in 2019 and moved into a US Rep role in 2023.
I truly enjoy helping others learn about the hobby and see them succeed. I also love inspiring people to do things that they didn’t know they were capable of. My primary focus was precision aerobatics, but over the years I have enjoyed all aspects of the RC hobby, including, RC cars, boats, helicopters, and many airplanes from micro to 50%, (gas, glow, electric) and quads. I attend many events from the local club, to the large national, and world level events.
I love building, flying, and doing them both at a high level with the great people in the hobby - there’s always room for improvement!
1988 - 1992, 13 years old I started M&S Aircraft building and finishing airplanes for customers to pay for my hobby with my dad.
1990-1995, worked for S&W Hobby Supply, manufacturing and shipping orders of Glow Fuels all over the US.
2006-2009 Evil RC - Started a business building high end IMAC competition aircraft and sold high performance fuels and oils. (built 24 RTF airplanes) 18 were 40% or larger.
2008-2014 Team JR (Later Team Horizon Hobby) Team Pilot - Promoted products through demos, and attending hobby trade shows helping customers in the booth. Met with local hobby shops to educate and introduce new products.
2014-2016 Team JR (JR Americas) Team Pilot, promoted JR DMSS and XBus at events and online.
2016 Team Manager Team JR Americas - Working with some of the best modelers in the world, promoting JR Propo, SebArt, and Pulse Batteries
2018 - 2020 Team Manager PowerBox Systems Americas, started the US team with 10 elite pilots in different disciplines to support the launch of the PowerBox Core radio
2023 - Present, CARF-Models Sales Rep - selling the best flying planes on the planet! and supporting the most discerning modelers.
