I remember when......
 

Here is something to liven up the thread a bit. You just fill in the blank. Lets see where this goes,
I remember when................
a 60 was considered a large airplane

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i remember when my uncle gave me an Enya .19, that thing was huge compared to my .049 engines.[X(]

david

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all RC planes were kits,and ARF was the sound a dog made:D:D

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when fiberglass was that stufff around waterheaters that yu used as a superman cape......boy was that stupid

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when a good flat building board, t-pins, balsa, aliphatic glue, butyrate dope and tissue were necessary components for ANY airplane model.

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I remember when Coke was a soda , and a joint was a good place to be .:)

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I remember when a right turn was push the button once and a left turn was push the button twice.
Or something like that it has been a long lime.

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I remember when glow fuel was $9/gallon.

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I remember when--you had to cut the parts out of the sheets before you glued them into an airplane!!







so many kits--not enough glue!

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my 1980's
fuel pump?? what is this? syringe!!!!
kits????? all planes built from plans, you need to cut it your self.
CA??? white glue.

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I remember when gasoline was 23.9¢ a gallon.

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all I know is that this means I hang out with some old farts:D and Tail Strike , your a frickin Dinosaur.......

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A FireBaby was the plane to own and it was the first ARF. Well, sorta.

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When a date went like this:

5 Gallons of gas in Dad's car
Dinner at the diner
Movie theater or drive in for two with snacks

Still having some change left from the 6 bucks I started with.

sigh...

oh, yeah.. models... When you had no choice but to build your own airplane, you bought an engine that invariably had a hokey space name like rocket, meteor, or comet, and had the opportunity to make your own radio system from scratch, plans or a kit. Of course, being young, I always was happy to see the next airplane magazine for the hot models on the front cover., and I don't mean flying models!!! The covering on them was superb!!

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When the coolest airplane I could want was a control line Ringmaster.

I had to settle for a Baby Ringmaster because all I had was an .049 engine.

Just found this thread:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=272688

Boy, that was a long time ago!

BobbyG

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Being careful not to bump the sliding trims on my Tx for my Grasshopper or else I'd have to trim them out again.

somegeek

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Building my C/L ringmaster and covering with Silkspan tissue - -Painting with dope - -Using Ambroid glue.--Fox .35 sold for around $17.00 - - -No T.V., or cell phones, or computers, or I-Pods WOW Didn't realize I was this old.....But had fun.

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I remember when Hazel Sig might just swoop out of the sky and land at your field, take some pictures, shake some hands, and sign some autographs.

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I remember when Ambroid glue was the latest and the best!
Jim

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I remember when I flew my first airplane - a rubber band powered Ornithopter...

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I remember Sinclair gas stations and Gas Wars.



Bob

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Remember when Sinclair gave away those inflatable dinosars?
"There's a Tiger in your tank" and the commercials with a tiger tail hanging out of the fuel door.
"The commercials where the guy drove around without a car, just a steering wheel.
Remember when Exxon was named ESSO?


When the Idea of bolt on wings was a novelty?
When someone got you one of those godawful Cox plastic C/L airplanes in a box that flew better with the engine off? And ripping out the engines as soon as possible to put them in the latest free flight you built?
When the best thing there was for Monokote was a travel iron?
Snoopy flying doghouse?
Sterling models?

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sweet :D

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...I dreamt of having an engine with a throttle.

...drooling over the glass case of blue box Super Tigres

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I remember.... walking into the hobby shop and looking up at the shelves, completely full from waist level to the ceiling, with red & yellow kit boxes. All the way around the shop.

In 1994 I walked into the AMA museum, they had a little hobby shop setup, almost exactly the same way, don't know how they got all the red/yellow boxes! It was like I was in a 35 year time warp. I wonder if they still have it.

Dave Olson

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I remember when build threads and arfs didn't go together:)

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Trying to get the miscut kit pieces to fit together for my Berkely Tri-Pacer. They looked great in the ads, though.

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trying to make a cox control liner fly was a prerequisite to starting in R/C

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I remember when I first flew a CL Wen Mac powered plastic ARMY Dauntless Dive Bomber, that dropped a bomb when you pulled a third line, and building my first balsa CL a Scientific Super Cub with the Wen Mac in it......and MacDonald burgers at 15 cents each!

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I remember...

when I could get 90% of what I needed to build from the LHS and order the other 10%,
now it's the opposite![:o]

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I remember when I bought my first balsa model plane... a Sterling P-47. Of course I was only 9 when I bought it and up to that time I had only bought and built plastic kits. Boy was I surprised to open the box and find nothing but sheets of balsa wood and a rubber band, tissue paper and plastic wheels. I had no idea where to start so it sat there for about 5 years. Then I rediscovered it and built it using Duco cement. I don't think anything was square on it but I did manage to fly it and it did fly fairly well.

I also remember the first time I ever saw an R/C airplane and guys with their gold, red, blue and white colored transmitters and names like Cannon, EK Logictrol, Kraft, Heathkit and the cadillac of the time period Pro-Line. Four channel radios that cost about $400 back then, 1968. And oh, I forgot to mention that smell of castor oil permeating the air that turned out to be as addictive as heroine since here it is almost 40 years later and I still can't get enough of that smell when I'm at the field... reminds me of my youth.

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I remember when the QSAA (Quarter Scale Asso. of America?) was the biggest deal in the States down in Las Vegas. Now even the AFR's are bigger than 25%.

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AFR's?

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I remember when you disobeyed your father and your "time out" was spent over his knee. I remember untangling the phone cord and getting up to turn the channel on the TV. I also remember the thrill I had when I built my first plane and watched it fly. Kind of like the first time I danced with a beautiful girl.................Dear Lord, I must be getting old if I got that much of thrill out of it.

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I remember when getting high off dope was ...was....was.....what was I saying? Oh yea, I remember when dope was something you used on airplanes;)

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Put a "Tiger in Your Tank". Hey I remember that as a kid. Esso is still Esso in Canada.

Every transmitter at the field was either a "Kraft" or "EK Logictrol".

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Flash back to 1985

When an electric plane was a glider stuffed full of nicad's and didn't glide all that well.

When 1/4 scale planes with Quadras were fiddly hard to start beasts..

When my Gold Box Futaba was shiny and new..

Before Tower Hobbies owned the world and Byrons still made the best giant scale kits.

When picking out the next kit to build was tough because you had so many to choose from.

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Shell gas (100 miles to a gallon) 16oz RC,2-5cent bags of potato chips =20cents ,Hobby shop in almost every town. Jade East was the colone pub

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I remember when you had to plan your radio installation to make best use of the ONE servo that rotated opposite the other three.
When RC Modeler was a great magazine, especially some of the covers. ;)