Zbird thank you and don.t feel to bad as it is the conception most of the younger guys have. Actually I am and sure most of the others love to have the springboard such as this thread to speak of something that is so dear to the earliar modelers. Many of the generation from the fiftys and sixties were reared on controlline but in the middle sixties with the advent of simpler single channel systems RC bloomed with many changing over and in some cases never looking back.

There is something missing in that simple statement though and something that is indeed almost intangeble and very difficult to convey to someone who has never experianced it. It is something that one can only experiance in controlline flying and could never ever be duplicated in RC.

You see when you fly a 'Good' controlline airplane (not the old common plastic sleds that are fixed in most folks collective memorys) You become very much a part of the airplane with it pulling hard in your hand and you can feel a rough running engine and imediately sense the airspeed and become a part of the airplane that RC could never duplicate. This even though we can only operate in a sixty foot hemisphere or so and to most peoples surprise we are virtually unlimited in aerobatics within that little hemisphere.

So Zbird thanks for the opportunity to ramble on and do some research and you will find that controlline is actually making a bit of a comeback with more avaliable now than for many years in the past. You just may want to give it a go some time[8D]

Yes indeed Firstplace it is a Magician. Almost stock with the exception of the Bill Young three channel throttle system. It also has high idle kick up and throttle trim just like RC. Am using a throttled OS 40FP and its a beatiful combination for me.

Thanks Gray Beard its been an interesting road since I first needed the chair seven years ago. I never completely abandoned controlline since starting in 54 but as with most of use it tended to be on the back burner in more recent years. Since I have the good use of one leg and control the chair and propel myself backwards just getting around I decided to give it a go and connected with Bill Young who fixed me up with one of his marvelous systems back in 02. This turned out to be the key for success at that time with a Sig 35 Skyray. This was all done in the hard packed dirt. I did thourghtly enjoy traveling to the basin though in LA to use their paved circles and Speedworld near PHX.

That lasted about two years and my medical problems grew worse and was no longer able to control the chair in the dirt, so having no convienent place to fly I thought it was over. Well just this year some folks in the club (many of which I have worked with and helped in RC) Started pushing for a twenty foot concrete pad for me to fly on and it came to pass with a lot of help from a lot RC'ers. So now I continue to fly RC almost every day but do some Ukie every couple of weeks or so.

A Special thanks to the Kingman RC Modelers AMA 969

It has truly been wonderful and I have been able to get back to controlline once agine after five years