ORIGINAL: skyblue
I think my vintage transmitter had a tube in it ( ? ). Hey, the tx had metal cases. One guy had FF called the Midwest Sniffer with a teeny Cox engine. It used an eyedropper for a fuel tank.
I started with control line planes in the early 60's at a field in Union,NJ. They had some great contests back then; combat, scale, sport.
Man no computers, cell phones, ipads, ipods, gps, cable tv. How did we ever manage ?
We managed because we enjoyed the
process of modeling as much as the actual flying. Our
minds were the primary tool that used things like plans, glue, knives, sandpaper, and wood to "fly" the model long before it was ever completed. A completed model was only one of the last steps in the process.