Robert A. Benjamin

“…drugstore clerk, a commercial clam digger, a seafood restaurant cook, a boiler insurance underwriter, a computer data collection manager, a big-city hospital emergency room clerk, a waiter, a certificated public school teacher, a security guard, a life insurance salesman, a truck driver, a commercial printing production planner, a Civil Air Patrol instructor, a gallery artist on contract to a nationally recognized publisher of fine art prints, and a free lance magazine author.”

Over the years, Robert A. Benjamin has earned his way through life as a drugstore clerk, a commercial clam digger, a seafood restaurant cook, a boiler insurance underwriter, a computer data collection manager, a big-city hospital emergency room clerk, a waiter, a certificated public school teacher, a security guard, a life insurance salesman, a truck driver, a commercial printing production planner, a Civil Air Patrol instructor, a gallery artist on contract to a nationally recognized publisher of fine art prints, and a free lance magazine author. Along the way he managed to earn a private pilot’s license, to restore a classic airplane, and to learn to build flying scale model airplanes well enough that he was inducted into the U.S. Model Aviation Hall of Fame in 2006.

The books of Robert Benjamin’s Imperfectly Ordinary trilogy… A Gift of Dreams, I Promised You Daisies, and Side Door To Heaven recounted his experiences as a child of small town America and explained what it feels like to realize that you are the one who will always be different. Since his boyhood days Mr. Benjamin has found himself driven to discover what he ought to do about it. Part of the calling in life he discovered was his obligation to share his experiences by becoming a writer.

Hey Mister Will It Fly by Bob BenjaminOne thing that has always made it clear that Bob Benjamin was different is his passionate interest in model airplanes. During the years he devoted to working on the Imperfectly Ordinary books, his friends in the world of aeromodelling managed to convince him that all the good things he has experienced because of that interest also deserved to be shared. The results of that encouragement are waiting between the covers of Hey Mister, Will It Fly? That, however, was only the beginning of going back and getting it right. The original three Imperfectly Ordinary books have been taken out of print and off the market. Bob is in the process of an exhaustive rewrite of all their content which will re-appear in good time as My Life With Model Airplanes. The first of these new titles, Discovering the Dream, will be ready soon and you will hear about it first right here at rcmodel.com.