Hey Hoss how ya doing, Yes I have been following the posts on your return to controlline and thats wonderful. Here is a vidio that explains why I only fly controlline with throttle anymore, I need to be able to control the length of my flights and land when I need to and not wait to run out of fuel. Also it is wonderful to shoot touch and goes to my hearts content if I want to and using an old three line system would be almost impossible for me to set up each time every trip to the field.

I have always kept a hand in to some degree and never really abandoned controlline for RC completely and when I went into the chair ten years ago I could I could not fly any more at my home (RC) field in the dirt with the chair and only could fly On concrete or pavement. The solution was to have a twenty foot concrete circle poured at my RC field, that along with my Bill Young over the wire electronic handle was the ticket and it was wonderful. Now with 2.4 my next ship will have an over the air 2.4 system and the transmitter (one of my old Prism 7's) will be worn on my chest with a strap system and the sticks pointing to the airplane. Its easy now to simply reach up with my free hand and do whatever with the throttle. This will greatly improve set ups and simplify things for me.

Yes I use mostly Tetra four ounce bubbless for the controlline airplanes because I get the most uniform and consistant runs with the RC engines on my controlline ships. I am using both OS .40 FP (the ship in the vidio) and OS .35AX in my Nobler.

I suppose its from my Pylon racing days but I am a firm belever in the bubbless tanks and even use them on certain problamatical RC airplanes. One example is my Quad Kaydet a four engine ship (.25AX) which I do perform some aerobatics with. Without the bubbless during certain rolling manuvers the outboards would always surge unpleasently. The change to bubbless tanks completely eliminated that somewhat unusual problem.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZM8...2&feature=plcp


John

Will be looking forward to hearing of your continued adventures on your return