Great Story HP

After having dabled with an eight channel reed Orbit I flew mode 1 starting with my first two stick analog proportional a Kraft with the wood print shelf paper case covering, this about 1964. The Orbit came next in 1970 and of course mode 1. This radio was my favorite untill 1991 and it became illegal so time to move on.

I hung on to mode 1 in a long string of some great and some best described as non-descript systems. This all the way up to 1994 and at that time I made the deliberate decision to make the change to mode 11 since no one around me still practiced the split sticks and I really wanted to be able to sell and buy
systems without the often big hassle of a changeover and all the lost springs

Well I did survive the change and now I just don,t want to ever look back.

That was untill just last year when I completed the conversion of that same old Orbit to 2.4 and breathed new life into my old favorite. This included just right airplane for it, a AristoCat I built from and old kit still in the secret stash.

Well this was of course still mode 1 and I thought aw heck I can still fly this ship carefully. Well maiden time came and everything was perfect the takeoff was perfect and the landing was perfect but everything in between was, heck not perfect and what an awfull experiance.

Needless to say that evening that old tranny was opened up to make the change and since with this system there is no servo reversing so some servos had to be repositioned as well as some new pushrods made up.

Yup I,am a mode 11 dude now for life.

Hmm before and after mode 1, mode 11.