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Live Wires - 1/18/2008 5:40:34 PM   
billmod12


 

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Status: offline 		Here are a few photos of Live Wires from 1963. I dug out the old prints and slides and will be posting a few at a time as I scan them. I have them all the way back to 1953. Enjoy!! Cheers Bill
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RE: Live Wires - 1/18/2008 5:45:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		Can't get them to load! Haven't had any problems in the past! Somebody Help! Thanks

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RE: Live Wires - 1/18/2008 10:33:52 PM   
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RE: Live Wires - 1/19/2008 1:57:13 AM   
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RE: Live Wires - 1/19/2008 2:43:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Great pictures Bill! Thanks for sharing them.

Is that a Goldberg Jr. Falcon in the last picture in the top row?

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RE: Live Wires - 1/19/2008 3:12:57 AM   
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Status: online 		These are great pictures! Thanks for sharing!

ouldn't help but notice the guy in the first picture holding the hunting bow and having a quiver of arrows slung over his shoulders. Many different thoughts followed!
Since he didn't have an arrow nocked, I assume he was just taking stock of this wondrous opportunity for several possibilites!

Robert


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RE: Live Wires - 1/19/2008 5:06:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yes it is a Goldberg Falcon Junior with an OK .049 and Citizen Ship SE-2 rubber band powered escapement rudder only.

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RE: Live Wires - 1/19/2008 5:20:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		That was at the athletic field at University of North Carolina Wilmington. There was an archery trail that went through the woods and the public was allowed to use it. One day one of the guys hung his Debolt Super Cub in a pine tree and my dad took one of my arrows tied a line to it and shot it over the cub and we were able to pull it out of the tree. When it fell it righted itself and glided to rather fair landing. It flew again that day with the help of a little masking tape over a couple of tears in the silk. Thats is me at 13 holding the cruiser which I am converting to electric at this time.

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RE: Live Wires - 1/19/2008 2:33:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Great pics. Looking forward to more.

Tom

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RE: Live Wires - 1/19/2008 2:34:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for posting the photos. I am now building a Live Wire II from the December, 1995 issue of Model Aviation for a .15 engine. Love the way it looks. See http://209.196.57.92/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=EcomBB&mod=E%2DCommerce%3A%3AProduct+Catalog&mid=D30FB4BBE3764A5694C4972616B7262A&tier=3&id=9A32AB4D24F241E8B05DA322D7386457

With the cold weather I have got a lot of work done.

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RE: Live Wires - 1/19/2008 3:59:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for sharing your photo collection. I see one of your pictures is a Sterling Mustang with an SE5 in the background. How did the Mustang fly and do you recall what radio you used? I see the K&B Torpedo on the nose too.

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RE: Live Wires - 1/19/2008 5:40:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		If I remember correctly it was an Orbit. The TX was dark blue and proportional one of the only propors around our area at the time. I do remember it flew heavy and bit the dust over that weekend. I was only 13 at the time 1963 and some details have escaped me. I don't know if it was piloting skills,radio,or plane problems. Unfortunately that green Debolt Cosmic Wind was on the down side of a loop and the nose got tucked under and would not come up and went straight in to the ground from about 200 feet with the engine wide open. I think maybe if he had cut the throttle it would have come out. The prop was 6 inches in the ground plane messed up with the radio still responding. I have only got about 10 more pics/slides of the 60s. The rest (about a 100) are slides from 1953 to 1956. There just isn't any fast way to scan slides inexpensively. But I will get them on here some how they are fantastic. Cheers Bill

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RE: Live Wires - 1/20/2008 7:15:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a photo of my LiveWire set to fly at a Vintage R/C Meet here in Colorado in 2007. PAW .19 diesel for power. Heck of a fun plane to fly!

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RE: Live Wires - 1/20/2008 7:32:31 PM   
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If I remember correctly it was an Orbit. The TX was dark blue and proportional one of the only propors around our area at the time. I do remember it flew heavy and bit the dust over that weekend. I was only 13 at the time 1963 and some details have escaped me. I don't know if it was piloting skills,radio,or plane problems.



If the transmitter was dark blue, it more than likely is an F&M radio. Orbit's are black. I can agree with heavy, I have one of these almost ready to go with a Kraft Series 80 radio and Veco .45. I'm going to increase the power to a .60. Sterling Mustangs have a glide ratio of a brick, no wonder it went in. IT has to be flown like the real thing.

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RE: Live Wires - 1/21/2008 3:58:45 PM