mistermnkim

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my very first system was a Kraft 2 channel with dual sticks. came with a cox cessna trainer with a 049 engine.

Dr1Driver

Futaba 7FG/K FM. S128 servos.

MinnFlyer

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Mine was a single-channel escapement, long before Kraft was around.

fizzwater2

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heathkit 8 channel - not only did I get to fly, I got to build the radio, too! 1973

bhady

World Engines 6 channel, a long time ago.

bhady

AA5BY

Also a World Engines 6 ch, got it for Christmas 1974

Guillermo Ibanez

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MRC 3 channel 1974

Lazer

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World Radio Blue Max 4 channel kit radio. Built the radio and all the servos. Later I bought a Competition Series Single Stick 6 channel Pro-Line and two RX. One RX has never been used. I also have an Ace Silver Seven Single Stick I built from a kit along with all the servos, but have not flow that system but 5 times.
Terry

Lazer

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The Blue Max was 1970 and the Pro-Line was 1971 version.

k_caller

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First RC was self made Heathkit (don't remember how many channels- year 1971) with 3 huge servos (motor, rudder, elevator)! Progressed to a Cirrus (actually a Futaba or forerunner of Futaba?) 6 channel with servo reversing. Still have the radio and it still works! Nope, don't use it- just take it out once in a while just for memories of the good old days.
Heathkit is long gone. [&o]

summerwind

Royal 4 channel built from a kit.
good radio...........less than half the cost of a PCS

dirtybird

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Mine was a Berkley Aerotrol kit in 1950.

rambler53

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FP-4TL, AM. It uses alkaline batteries.
S28 servos, they center better than my 3004's.

rctom

In the mid 60s I built a single channel escapement system from a kit, I don't remember what brand. Push once, left rudder, release and return to neutral. Push twice, right rudder, etc. Escapement was powered by a wound up rubber band.

The plane it was in flew off into the sunset (literally) on the first attempt and we never saw it again. Back to U-control.

Next try was in the early '70s with a pulse proportional system, single channel, this time the plane landed on a neighbor's roof. Back to U-control (again).

Finally in the early '90s I bought a Futaba FP radio and was able to actually make the airborne plane respond to inputs, up to that point everything had been free-flight. Even though radio gear was installed it had no effect.

It probably would have been easier if I had had a little money to spend on decent radio equipment.

TF

cfircav8r

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My first was a Kraft 2 ch, in the new plastic case, brand new off the line (literaly off the line my mother was an engineer for Kraft.) This was about 1982.

rambler53

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You've have the coolest mom in the world! An engineer, AND with RC radios? Wow.

My mom made chicken soup.

dbcisco

Futaba T6XH FM. Still working and in use.

balsa brain

MRC 4 channel with the white transmitter. The receiver made it through four crashes when I was learning to fly before it quit working. Actually the four crashes was my first four flights. That hurt!!

GSNut

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First Radio was a Single Channel (Carrier Wave)
Citizenship FL27 TX on 27.255 mh one handed flashlight like only square, so you could hand launch and had a 3 foot 1/8 music wire antenna. Lotsa Batteries like 2 ea, 67.5 volt, 1 ea 15 volt and a 1.5 volt filiment battery.

Matching Citizenship Rx with a rubber band powered escapement. RX was of gas tube and was suspended per four rubberbands from each corner. Also lotsa batteries. A, B and C.

No throttle so you flew till it quit or crashed.
No Instructors just maybe a buddy and neither of you really knew how to fly R/C.

Lotsa fly aways - most always !

Oh, Yeah you needed a FCC issued Citizen Band Licence which was free in those days. Call letters and all.

Hibrass

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World Models 5 channel! 1976! Boy how the world has changed...

Also kinda kewl to see a few other World Model users have posted!

Later,

Ed

Kwikfli

Ace 7 ch built from kit as well as seven servos, don't know to this day why I went to the trouble of building seven servos. Still have it, but not working. Learned alot with that radio. Put it in a Ace High. Basicaly a 049 powered glider, two channel.

Dave McDonald

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Heathkit GD-19 built from a kit in 1969. 5 channels, huge KPS-9 servos, on 27 Mhz. When the CB craze hit a few years later, flying on 27 Mhz was risky.

MX240

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A tube Wag reciever and ground base transmitter working off 132V converter that would make the hair stand up on your arm if you got too close when I keyed it.
All stuffed into a Rudder Bug with Bonner s/n escapement...Rudder only.
When Bonner came out with the Varicomp escapement I used the s/n for throttle control............hi & low with a tin can flapper over the intake.
I thought to myself......it can't get any better then this??? Around 1957

bss_rcu

Futaba Skysport-4 FM. Not as vintage

woodie

Early 1969 World Engines Blue Max. I flew off the steel reinforced runways at Lowry AFB and the Blue Max couldn't deal with the environment. Cost me 3 Ugly Stiks before i gave up and bought a Kraft Series 70 4 channel. Came with KPS-12 servos I believe, the small ones. Worked beautifully, still have the radio and still works fine tho not legal anymore. I had several models of the Kraft radios thru the 70s, good luck with all of them. Switched to Futaba Competition 7 in late 70s, have been flying various Futaba systems ever since.

Woodie