I remember building a Midwest Sweet Stick and a Falcon 56 MKII as a trainer in 1977-79. The Falcon 56 flew great until I spun it into the ground. The person instructing couldn't save it at all.
Jim
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I have been in the hobby now since 1977, off and on. Mostly on since about 2001. When I started out, we didn't have a dedicated type trainer such as those that are available now. Everything, obvious, was glow or gasoline.. mostly glow for us beginners of the time.
CGr.
I started flying RC in the 60's and we did have dedicated trainers then. They were not ARFs, you had to build them. Remember the Ammco H-ray, S-ray, or Falcon 56, or the RCM trainer series kitted by Bridi? On top of building them we learned to fly without buddy boxs, Always an event when a student would get his trainer in a bad way and either put a death grip on the transmitter or use so much body english in an effort to prevent a crash that you could not reach his transmitter.