Originally Posted by
GREG DOE
Good clarifications. Sometimes we don't get the explanation from our mind (memory) to the printed word. Good comparison on the C free flight model, and the Goldberg Sr. Falcon. The Sr. Falcon is another design from before Monokote. Also, between the two of us we described the evolution of Monokote, but just to clarify let me add that the first sticky film was Monokote, and the revised product was Super Monokote. There was a lot of the "sticky" stuff left over after the change, and it was marketed as "Trim Monokote". Later, I've got PT in 45 minutes.
Another name for "trim monokote" was creepy crawler. At least that's what we called it.
In the northeast ,most of the RC planes I saw were covered with silk, nylon was considered too heavy, and took a lot of dope to fill the weave.
Us kids used nylon on our control line planes mostly because we couldn't afford silk.
It was also a handy bag to carry the crashed planes home.
Paul