Can you find yours here?
01-28-2014, 07:12 AM
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Found my first Two. The four channel digitiro I bought used in 73 and the five channel Kraft my parents bought me when it failed six weeks later. Woketman had one so we thought it was a better option than fixing the other one after it failed and caused my first plane to crash with me never getting to fly it myself.
01-28-2014, 07:59 AM
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I see a few of us still have our old radios! I am in that group, I just could not bring myself to get rid of them, I was able to buy the 1971 single stick from a modeler who really needed the money so I offered him $120 which was all I had.
Larry B
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01-28-2014, 09:04 AM
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Yea, you weren't there that day. Herb Adams was flying my Astroflite Super Malibu glider with a TeeDee .09 on it to get it up that I bought from the same guy I got the radio from for 175$ fro everything. He lost control of it and it starting doing loops until the wing failed and down she went. The Shop up in York was there until about five years ago "Skellys Hobby and Cycles". My dad paid 299.99 for mine as my 14th birthday present. Skellys had a special running that month, it came wtih six servos and Joe Doulher at Loyyds sold me a Falcon 56 and a OSmax 35 for 50$. The plane didnt last one season but I flew the radio for ten years and got my first Futaba from a shop in Glen Burnie the guy wanted my Kraft and trade me my radio and 100$ for a new Futaba 6 channel.
Wow Ron, I did not remember any of that! My dad took me up to York Pennsylvania to a hobby shop that we were told had the best prices on Kraft gear. I still recall the price for that Kraft 5 ch Sport Series: $248.00. That was a heck of a lot for a 14 year old!!!! That is $1264.10 today, according to an inflation calculator I found!
01-28-2014, 09:17 AM
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Wow, those are beauties!
There is fascinating historical information on that site. Check out "First Kraft," and "Prototype Bonner Digimite." At the end of the Bonner article there is a PDF file entitled "Bonner Digimite Story by Frank Kagele," a fascinating story about the rise and fall of Bonner. Another good one is the story of Zel Ritchie and Space Control, it's a little harder to find but here is the link:
http://www.rchalloffame.org/Manufact...ory/index.html Just tons of great articles on that site. He really did an amazing job.
There is fascinating historical information on that site. Check out "First Kraft," and "Prototype Bonner Digimite." At the end of the Bonner article there is a PDF file entitled "Bonner Digimite Story by Frank Kagele," a fascinating story about the rise and fall of Bonner. Another good one is the story of Zel Ritchie and Space Control, it's a little harder to find but here is the link:
http://www.rchalloffame.org/Manufact...ory/index.html Just tons of great articles on that site. He really did an amazing job.
01-28-2014, 09:23 AM
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Yea, you weren't there that day. Herb Adams was flying my Astroflite Super Malibu glider with a TeeDee .09 on it to get it up that I bought from the same guy I got the radio from for 175$ fro everything. He lost control of it and it starting doing loops until the wing failed and down she went. The Shop up in York was there until about five years ago "Skellys Hobby and Cycles". My dad paid 299.99 for mine as my 14th birthday present. Skellys had a special running that month, it came wtih six servos and Joe Doulher at Loyyds sold me a Falcon 56 and a OSmax 35 for 50$. The plane didnt last one season but I flew the radio for ten years and got my first Futaba from a shop in Glen Burnie the guy wanted my Kraft and trade me my radio and 100$ for a new Futaba 6 channel.
01-28-2014, 02:13 PM
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Boy your right those were the days, all those places are gone. But we're still here! I had my most fun flying at the old hump with all of you those guys. You pattern fliers were my idols and we had real builders back then.
01-28-2014, 02:49 PM
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My first radio in 1969 was a single channel escapement purchased by my father in Japan. My second radio in 1970 was the EK Logictrol 3 channel brick. I flew a Lanier Cessna till college got in the way and didn't have time to fly.
01-28-2014, 04:00 PM
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I started with a circa 1968 galloping ghost. An ARF of all things with a .049 Cox engine with a single channel on the rudder doing the flappity-flap dance.
In the mid 70's with the Mattel galloping ghost set, yep found it on the site.
I migrated from free flight models, converted my Doonside Mills powered Veron Cardinal to radio.
John.
01-28-2014, 05:31 PM
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Snoped and scanned the "line up" of radios and didn't see my first rig...I started flying RC back in 1955...My first radio was a half homemade ( Lorenz 2 tube receiver) and half kit (SIG xmtr kit)...It was cheap to make but the batteries to light it up cost almost an arm and a leg.. Flew the airplane & radio for 4 years in a Demco Live Wire trainer.
02-03-2014, 09:08 AM
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Jim, my dad was Bob Stahl and not a modeler. Some people have asked before if i might be related to Earl Stahl the famous free flight guy. the answer is still sorry but no. I am distantlly related to the Stahl that makes sprint car header and other race car supplies in PA.
that IS funny... Al Stahl used to complain about the very same thing 