Month: February 2012

Throughout middle school, John Owsinski dreamed of getting his 1963 blue and yellow string plane into the air. He remembers staring up at the gift from his uncle in his garage where the plastic box was gathering dust. He never did get it to fly.Owsinski ended up spending his career surrounded by jets and planes, and chooses to spend his retirement in a similar fashion. Most weekday mornings, he can be found at the electric radio control flying field at the Orange County Great Park, chatting with other RC aficionados or concentrating on one of his models soaring over the fields of the former Marine base