对于航模爱好者而言，动辄上万的航模令很多人发出“穷三代”的感叹。然而来自西南交大的航模发烧友杨润却将这项代价不菲的爱好做成了一项小有成就的“事业”。

Yang Run has an expensive hobby - making model airplanes. Some of his models cost more than 10,000 yuan. But rather than letting his hobby drag him down financially, the 25-year-old mechanical automation major at Southwest Jiaotong University decided to turn it into a profitable business. He co-founded an aerial photography company in Chengdu, Sichuan, that earned 200,000 yuan in the first year.

杨润有着一个花销不菲的爱好——航模制作，他手中一些航模的造价动辄上万。但这个爱好非但没有让就读西南交通大学机械自动化专业、25岁的杨润“破产”，相反，他决心要把这个爱好变成一门利润可观的生意。他与人在四川成都合办了一家航拍公司，公司运营第一年便赚到20万元。

Devoted fan

航模发烧友

Instead of playing with toys, Yang loved making models himself when he was little.

杨润从小就喜爱动手制作模型，而非玩玩具。

“My parents bought me model cars and airplanes, but I preferred using plastic bottles to make my own,” he says.

他说：“尽管父母给我买了汽车和飞机模型，但是我更喜欢自己动手用塑料瓶制作。”

When he started middle school, Yang began putting even more effort into making model air-planes. Once, he locked himself up in his room to build a 5-meter-long, wooden hang glider. He covered the frame with his bed sheet as he couldn’t afford the proper material for the wings. Yang wanted to try flying the glider by jumping off a hill, but his father found out about his plan and thought it was too dangerous. “So my father destroyed the plane,” says Yang.

升入中学后，杨润便将更多的精力投入到航模制作上。一次他将自己锁在房间，制作了一架长达五米的木质悬挂式滑翔机。由于买不起制作机翼的材料，他就把自己的床单拿来给飞机当蒙皮。杨润想用从山上跳下的方式来试飞那架滑翔机，但这一计划却被父亲识破。杨润说，因为父亲认为这太过危险，“便亲手毁了那架航模”。

Expensive hobby

代价不菲的爱好

But this didn’t stop Yang from building model airplanes.

但是这并没有阻止杨润的“航模梦”。