Cees,

I totally agree, surprised ?? One question - on the Telecount, was the elevator and rudder on the combination stick and the aileron on the single stick?

One thing that the modern radios have over any of the old radios is the smoothness of the stick assembly. Those old sticks, like shown in your back view of the transmitter, always seemed to have a little looseness between the stick extension and the yolk. I had a World Engines super transmitter that had the best mechanical stick they could make that still had that little bit of slop. In flight it made no difference (I doubt my flying ability was good enough to determine if it was there or not) but I certainly enjoy picking up my transmitter and finding that it is perfect in that regard. Even the very cheap plastic transmitter that came with one of my RTF models seems to be tighter.

You are indeed impressive in your willingness to try a new and different project. I would build a Simla and put the most modern equipment I could find in it - dual elevator servos and all that, use a JR 12 channel receiver with 3 satellite receivers and so on. Give me all of the redundancy I can get :-)

Good luck on the Simla and new/old radio project.

Ben