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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 3/27/2012 7:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		The farthest back that I can remember, my dad's 1st plane was a Cruiser. It was escapment and push button transmitter. He then had a Little Freak- same radio.
This was followed by an Ascender, also same radio. He always felt that the "true" flyers could use those one button transmitters and mostly do what we do now. He got a 10 channel Orbit & built a Jerry Nelson Sultan but never flew it. Due to changes in his work he left the hobby. I always thought he'd return but never did.
Me? I flew the little CL jobs with the Cox .049's. This spring I will launch my Hobbico trainer.
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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 3/27/2012 4:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		I really am not sure what my first RC plane was, but it was controlled with this:


AND saying that it was "controlled" is a real stretch of the imagination! I had to chase the plane with it. I am thinking I put it in a self designed glider with 049 power pod strapped to the top of the wing. Guys were using Ace pulse and the galloping ghost, and I was jealous. My single button radio was expensive to me, and meant the world too, but advancements started to come fast and I felt primitive in an instant. This was back in the 60's when a handful of us flew in Kapiolani Park in the shadow of Diamond Head, Oahu. In a few years, I had a real proportional radio, the Cannon 2 channel, and really was in the modern age then. Flew that in a Midwest Lil'T off the slopes above Enchanted Lakes, Oahu...that was when I really learned to fly RC. Jon

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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 3/30/2012 1:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		My first plane 1966, after a period of controlline.

Scratch built radio, two channel, Metz two channel rudder servo, so no escapement. The radio has tone selective filters .
Airplane is of own design and engine a Webra 1,5 ccm diesel.
The radio I used for a boat in the first place to try out, the range was enormous.
Receiver was a superregen which I am rebuilding now, see the last picture.

Second picture, 1967
Later the plane was equiped with three channel receiver and a one channel Metz servo added for motor control, two positions. engine Webra Glostar 3,5 ccm.
One battery pack for the two Metz servos and one for the receiver. Tail wheel replaced for nose wheel.

The transmitter is my second one and also a "bang bang" (Dutch tip-tip), so about 45 year old, double symultaneous scratch built and four channel.
Now I am building a new four channel receiver. the coils are ready. The battery indicater is in the third transmiiter, my first proportional so must be replaced. All a matter of money.

Last pictures, first proportional. own design scratch built. the last picture with the first ailerons.

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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 3/30/2012 1:53 AM   
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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 4/5/2012 3:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		This was actually the late 50's, probably 1959, first black & white photo. Yes, that's me as a delinquent.

Second photo was around 1962. Not me, but another delinquent holding my model.

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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 4/5/2012 1:02 PM   
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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 4/16/2012 8:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		I can't remember my first plane, since it was a Comet stick model FF and rubber powered. Then it was on to C/L and for a few years that was all I could afford. Then in the 60's I finally got a Goldberg Skylane and a single channel system and few that for awhile. I loved it, but I never did get to land it. The rubber always wound down by then and it was just a spiral down to landing, but no real control. Then finally I got a ControlAir when they first came out. That was it for me, I was hooked and got my hands on a Orion and had a ball, until the battery wire broke one day and it went in full power in the concrete and totaled it but good. After that I fell in love with the Kaos and haven't been without one since. LOVE that Kaos............

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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 4/18/2012 3:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		After several failures, my first really successful R/C model was a Ken Willard Gasser. It was powered by an ED Racer 2.5cc diesel engine and controlled with single channel (rubber powered escapement). It met a most unusual end, it was flying nicely when it suddenly went into a fast flat spin. I was totally perplexed as to the cause of the spin until a spectator came up to me and told me that my wing tip had hit the string of a large box kite flying at considerable altitude in the R/C flyer's area, talk about unlucky!

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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 4/22/2012 3:16 AM   
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Recolections from experience & pictures:

My dad's 1st plane was something that looked like it belonged in the service, it was smaller.
Next came the Live Wire Cruiser, a DeBolt model. A great trainer that, as my dad said "floated."
Then, Dale Root's Ascender- the plane he flew most and I have the most menories of.
Last was Jerry Nelson's Sultan which he built but never flew.
My trainer is still getting ready to go. THIS YEAR!!! ONWARDS!!

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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 10/25/2012 3:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		A C/L trainer out of Boy's life. Then a Jr. Ringmaster with that same OS Max .15 II engine. I built a Mambo .15 but never flew it.  Followed by a R/C Gary 1 .049 glider, first flight crash.  Much later a .049 Esquire, first flight crash.  Then some success with a Mark's Models Windward glider.  Flew the engine of a Hobby Shack SST .049, oil soaked wood & epoxy gave way.  I graduated to a Debolt Champ, Saracen .049 glider, Bill Evans, reflex wing. & a Debolt Acrobat Bipe.  A 20 year sabbatical, Navy & family.  Started R/C again with an electric Cub, learning the C/lL Beginners Pattern,  & rehabing a Falcon 56 & Sweet Stick for abit of '60s-70s nostalgia. Still have that OS .15 & the Mambo.

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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 10/26/2012 3:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		nice thread thanks.my first balsa model was a Jetco thermic 20 at age 8, Christmas 1965. Thanks Mom and Dad. A single edge razor blade, some Ambroid, a piece of sandpaper, and my modeling journey began.Once completed, I walked to the top of a small hill on our property, learned how to launch smoothly, then a hike to the bottom. This cycle repeated countless times since I had no idea how to really launch a glider. But the fun was never forgotten.

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RE: From the 60's - What was your 1st plane ? - 11/6/2012 6:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		This post must have been around a long time because going through it I discovered I answered it some time ago. I am surprised there are not more Goldberg kits popping up, as they were very popular in my neck of the woods.

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