ORIGINAL: rdc767
Swizzle sticks and Falcon 56mk2's.
In 1978 that was the trainers to have. I built 4 of the falcons before I solo'd. Pre trainer cords.
My friend had the swizzle stick. Man times have changed. I remember many days in the basement glueing up a set of wing panels and then tail panels etc. Kids don't know how easy they have it now with all the ARFS.
Ron
Yup...no trainer cords for me either...just get in trouble and toss the box back to the instructor. I remember spending a whole winter building that Falcon 56 with the help of a gentleman from the field (I was clueless at that age..didn't even know what a spar was!). When I see an ARF these days covered 100x better than I could for $150-$300 it blows me away still after having spent all that time building in my younger days. Today you can have a trainer like that new Hobbic NexSTAR I reviewed up and running in under 20 minutes (less time to charge built in nicads)!!!
I actually have a very old Kadet kit in the basement where the lines are drawn on the balsa (no die cut or laser cut!). How antiquated that seems now.
Tattoo - What year did the aircore trainers come out? they were coroplast right? I trained a friend of mine on an aircore plane a few years back but don't remember how long ago it was. were they before or after the home grown spads took over the world?