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Hey I know a lot of you guys have been doing this sport for a longtime. My friend Doc thought it would be cool to post an old pic next to a new one for fun.
I'll start it with a 1973 pic of me with my Dad's Mach 1 and today with my Integral. Mike Mueller

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I think this is a great thread...

This is my solo picture in 1975, I was 14..... My mom had to drive me to the field. This was also the first RC plane that I built, don't remember the name of the kit but it had a K&B 40 and I flew it with a Expert 5 channel. it took me two years to save my paper route money... The motor was around 50 bucks and the radio cost me 200....

enjoy :)

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WOW
okay now you guys got me started. The first is a picture of Dave Scott & I in May of 1995 when I attended his 5 day solo course, Im the one with the gray hair. I liked Dave's 1st RC Flight School so much I returned a few years following and in June 2008 I finally started and recieved my Progressive Unlimited RC Pilot status. Dave Scott is a great guy as an instructor and a great friend. Enjoy all
Hope you see this Dave LOL
NEDYOB

I can tell this is going to be an other great thread to keep my eye on, If all the members of RCU add their before and after photos this will go on forever.

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OK...
Me then (1983) and now 2008.[:o]

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Hey Dean,

You remind me of Jerry Lewis in the first photo... Must be the glasses! lol

It's amazing how much things do change especially with the way we dress..

Cheers
Jason.

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Hey Jason....

Don't you guys down under consider jerry a national hero, or is that some other country :)

hey I only changed the color of my t-shirt... in fact I might of owned that shirt back then LOL....

get busy dude- you got a magic to build !!!!

good on ya bro....

:)

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It pays to be old. The first one is a control line Barnstormer ca. 1952. Then a single channel Live Wire Champ around 1960. Notice the Citizen-ship transmitter on the ground. Finally, today! Dan.

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Hey Dan now that's what I'm talking about. How great is this hobby. It's something you can enjoy for a whole lifetime.
Dean you did look like a young Jerry Lewis.
HEY LADY!!!!!
Keep them comin, Mike

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LOL !!!


HEY LADY !!!!!!


love it !!!!!!


Hey Dan, what plans did you use to build the Hughes Racer that is one of my all time favorites - I loved that part of the Aviator movie...

that looks amazing !!!!

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Mike, if old is what you want, check this one out. Those are solid pine models made by Strombecker. I got into powered flight around 1947 or a little bit later when glow pug engines first came out. I was always building something except for three periods in my life. I discovered what girls were really for in high school. I had no time in college and I lived outside the country for a couple of years. Other than that, it's been build, build, build. I wish I had more pictures. Dan.

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Thanks handglider, I drew the plans up myself from a set of Paul Matt three views. I too was inspired by "The Aviator" especially since I retired from Hughes Aircraft. Dan.

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Now that's a nice picture Dean....I don't think you look like Jerry Lewis....more like Jerry Seinfeld in groovy glasses. Now what can I do with it?

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Okay this is getting weird, did some of you purposely pose in the same manner or have your poses not changed in so many years? I wish I had kept some old pics.

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You have good point Tianci. man is that odd hoe evryone seemingly strikes the same pose.
Hey post your pics. They don't have to span 30 years they could be anything. This is pretty funny stuff. Thanks all, Mike

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OK Mike I will try to make a favour of you even if 30 years before I was nearly born...:D

Same face expression...seems I don't enjoy it as much.:D

Picture with the Goldberg Ultimate is about 14 years ago. Picture with the Integral is pretty recent.

Nikos

PS:neckstrap is the same...:)

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:D
Wow!
This is cool!
First picture was taken in 1965. The model was a "sort-of-a-Orion" with an ST G20/46 and a home made 6ch. reed.
Second picture was taken in 2005. The model IS the Orion, with an ST 51 and a Controlaire Reed 10ch. radio.
Ciao
Beppe

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Can't tell the difference, Mike! [8D]

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What a cool thread Mike!

Whoa Dean, I don't know who looks geekier, you with the Buddy Hollies or me with the Izod....LOL

Anyway, this first pic is me circa late 70s/early 80s with my first pattern plane, a Fliteglass Pagan. I was about 13 in that pic. Yeah it's ugly(the plane but ok, me too!) ...I was a broke dog and all I had was metallic green monokote left over from my father's build and some gold spray paint. The plane flew awesome though! Always wanted to compete in pattern back then, but I was too darned broke.

Second one is me and a few planes at St Clairesville a couple years ago. (and little Mikey). I just realized that I just don't have or keep pics of myself much.

-Mike

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Hey Mike, sure looks like a tie on the geek factor. I always wore those old school aviator style frames back then.

Hey Dan, You have a story that we all need / love to hear. That is amazing you worked for hughes aircraft. The racer is a plane that I always wanted to model. It would be an honor to build one from your plans.

Okay guys once we get more victims / posters we need to do a poll on who has the 70's geek factor going.

oh, and I know old Pete has us beat of geek factor, that kid went straight to the university of pitsburgh from the 8th grade.

yea pete let's see you inner geek !!!!!!

Dean

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Sorry man....no pics other than my drivers lic picture. I was and always have been an inner geek, any pictures from that time from would have been a picture of a "head" smoking a cigarette.

I'll just watch this thread from the sidelines since I have no pics to contribute.

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Beppe,
Here's me and my Orion around 1962. It was on reeds. I never flew it because of college commitments. I understand they were great fliers. The image of me with the Curtis A12 was taken a few years ago. Dan.

handglider,
I wish I could help you. I would love to see a squadron of these flying around since mine looks so great up in the air. Unfortunately the plans I draw up are really crude and just enough to get me going. They are also drawn in AUTOcad. A software that is expensive and generally not used by us hobbiests. Dan.

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Lost the image of the Orion. Dan.

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Hey Dan,

I work in CAD and can work with those drawings. I could also work on fine tuning the CAD drawings and getting laser parts designed.

I would love to work together with you on the project. Sounds like a great winter project.

We could have a squadron of hughes racers, I'll pm you with my contact info....

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Great! Send me your Email address and I'll send them to you. Dan.

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I dunno. Mike's 70s pants are gonna be hard to beat!!! And that hair....dude....LOL

Ok this is definitely potentially the most comical thread ever on RCU.

Dan? You'd be suprised how many of us have Autocad :D

I'd love to hear some stories about Hughes as well.

-M

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Hi M, I would be surprised if there were a lot of modelers with AutoCAD out there. I learned it at Hughes’ expense and it was $1000 a license for Hughes. It’s more than that for the individual versions. It is very complex and not user friendly but if guys have it, that’s as good as it gets. I got to Hughes in 1963. Howard Hughes stopped showing up in the late 50’s. So, I missed seeing him. His office was being kept as a holy sanctuary. It was strictly off limits. The entire facility has been torn down and replaced by residents and office buildings. I don’t want to bog down this thread. It’s too much fun as it is.

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Hey Mike I'm getting a kick out of this too.
The pants....... I never owned a pair of jeans or shorts untill the 80's. Just the way things were for me as a kid. The hair and the glasses..... I was stylin.... MIke

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OK, here's mine. The "then" picture was from Model Aviation October 1990 District V column. I attended a Novice only contest in Alabama with my Eagle 2 trainer. That's me in the top of the middle column. I'm flying a little better pattern plane now!

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This is fun. What plane is this?

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Okay ... this is me like a couple of years ago ... I never collected all the RC photos when I was young Bbut I got my favourite nephew with me. Start them young right? :)

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Vicente,
I don't know what plane that is but that's Sergio Mendes next to it!
Brazil 66 must be nearby too!
(What do I win?)
:)
JLK

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Dean looks fine . . I am a little worried about the guy behind him though !! :D

Cheers, JB

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John,

No, it is not Sergio Mendez it is me. Well, you really were able to guess that was me. The plane is called "Bullet". This was a kit made in England. I was very nice flying plane. Engine ST 46. The picture was taken in Venezuela around 1978. Now, you have to guess what town and the field.

Now , that everybody knows that was me I am posting two pictures. One with very old biplane that I used in a pattern contest in Valencia, Venezuela. The other one is me with QQ at the Nats. with one of my Abbras. What is the name of the biplane?

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Sorry. I don't know what the RCUniverse program did not resize the picure. Just click on full size and you will be able to see the picture. Also didn't download my picture with QQ. Here is.

Vicente "Vince" Bortone

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tianci, Were these pictures taken when you were in high school? Regards___TNWalker

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This is great!:D:D:D



Bill Holsten

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1985 with Brushfire and 2008 with Zeque

I used the same hair salon as Mike M. (Mups53)

Do you think Lotto is trying to tell me my last flight was a stinker??

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Ok, here are some pics of me... the 1st is of me back in 1976 when I was the 1/8 scale RC Champion in South Africa - the car was an Associated. The next pic is my 1st R/C plane - Graupner Amateur from 1969 or so. My Bridi Kaos in 1985 is the next pic... followed by my Ariel in 1996, Pioriun Python in 1999 at the Nats, Hydeout from 2002 and then my Astral in 2006.

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I can see that you must have been a real lady's man with that cool retro look Chris. Wow!!!!!

Derek I really like the Python. That was a really cool looking plane. MIke

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TN ... I am gonna go there and smack you! Hahahahahaaa ... was taken like over a year ago! I am NOT that old ok. Hahahaahahahahaa ... I learnt one thing, let's all fly as much as we can now. Day will come when we can only handle gliders. We have a 80+ yr old Brit here who prob stayed back after WWII, he loves the hobby so much. He told me about days when servos were rubber powered. Now he can only handle gliders. Let's fly more!