Modeling's Grand Illusions: The Story of Scale Model Aircraft - AMA Films

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  • @jsa2001
    @jsa2001 2 місяці тому

    Great video, great time to be alive back then, young people not interested in this hobby today. I must get back in to balsa building.

  • @aureliobrighton1871
    @aureliobrighton1871 Рік тому +1

    4:00 ... it is captivatingly beautiful ... and to actually expose it to gusts and waves and concentration had to be utmost thrilling . there is so much you can do without just buying uniform stuff :)
    Btw. 21:20 being Bavarian it did not go unnoticed to me that this gentleman also seems to be a full scale graduate from the Löwenbräu barrel university.

  • @RcAircraft
    @RcAircraft 8 років тому +17

    This is a must watch

  • @onazram1
    @onazram1 4 роки тому +5

    Outstanding Video, I love the early 70's feel to it...

  • @Mr.XJ.96
    @Mr.XJ.96 4 роки тому +2

    Six Turnin Four Burin......The Peace Maker Largest Bomber produced. Scale Models are Awsome. Working Gauges and operating trim tabs in the 70s WOW......what a GREAT Hobby to be apart of. Happy Flyin Piolts from the Blue Skies Western Pa

  • @ripmax333
    @ripmax333 4 місяці тому

    @28:52 My RC Airplane model builder Hero, Mr Brian Taylor. His Model Plans are also a threat to watch in every detail, I remember sending him Money Orders to purchase his Plans and Glass Fibre Parts which where also Top Notch Quality, he was a master draughtsman and of Britain's Top famous Modellers, I wonder what happened to him.

  • @guardianobserver6593
    @guardianobserver6593 4 роки тому +6

    The golden era of rc modelism. (control line planes were much more scale than today rc "models".
    I was a young back then and rc products was sold like gold in my country but thankfully I started this hobby when it was directed only to those capable of build their own model. "Number of reinold", airfoils and aeronautics in general was important if one was scratch build their own model. When the boom of kits and polistirene models started appear, I understood that it was time to leave my wonderful hobby. I was already build my own vacuum glider wings (3 and 4meters wingspan) with carbon and kevlar fuselage from my own stamps, but it was really risky flying with "crazy" people with big wallets and no brain.
    Nice times back then.

  • @ianschroth6575
    @ianschroth6575 4 роки тому +9

    Man, I love the rubber powered free flight. Soooo cool

    • @tomcoryell
      @tomcoryell 4 роки тому +1

      Ian Schroth I’ve had great fun with rubber powered free flight.

    • @4thGloryMonday
      @4thGloryMonday 3 роки тому +1

      u get a hundred times more enjoyment without the rubber. rc just feels better

    • @aureliobrighton1871
      @aureliobrighton1871 Рік тому

      @@4thGloryMonday oily fumes and smoldering cells ... braid your rubbers .. and put a small rc unit in . that is for the connoisseur and gentleman 😉🌸

  • @ButchNackley
    @ButchNackley 4 роки тому +2

    0:30
    Points deduction. N - Numbers; too large and spaced too far apart.
    0:56
    Points deduction. Propeller; Incorrect color, Pitch in opposite direction.
    Just horsing around, it looks fantastic.

  • @jimbo2629
    @jimbo2629 4 роки тому +1

    RAF Woodvale 1978. I have happy memories of flying at Woodvale in the 1960s.

  • @welshpete12
    @welshpete12 4 роки тому +1

    I remember getting a lift in Fournier. I do not know what model it was. But it flew two, one behind the other . The wing tips folded up to go in the hanger and it had a converted Volkswagen car engine .

  • @peterzingler6221
    @peterzingler6221 4 роки тому +2

    The amount of details on this small bomber wow..

  • @theblytonian3906
    @theblytonian3906 Рік тому

    Lucky and old enough to have enjoyed the indian summer of control-line's dominance. Although I've flown R/C for the past 30 years too, I've always enjoyed contro-line (U control) more than R/C, combat in particular.

  • @CarminesRCTipsandTricks
    @CarminesRCTipsandTricks 5 років тому +8

    Could you imagine, those exquisite Aircraft with the WORKING Gauges...
    Flying today with modern FPV in the Cockpit??
    If it's been done, I haven't found any on Video.

    • @BaquePhotography
      @BaquePhotography 4 роки тому

      Ive never heard of working analog gauges. Putting a little "glass" cockpit in today would be trivial in comparison.

    • @peterzingler6221
      @peterzingler6221 4 роки тому +1

      It has been done lately.

    • @peterzingler6221
      @peterzingler6221 4 роки тому

      @@BaquePhotography yes yes there are working gauges. I doubt they show real numbers tho

  • @badgumby9544
    @badgumby9544 4 роки тому +2

    I also noticed during my time flying RC that a lot of Scale Builders that build beautiful aircraft are pretty bad pilots. I went to the Scale Nationals at the AMA Headquarters in Muncie, IN once. Lots of terrible landings and crashes. But the aircraft where amazing.

    • @kkteutsch6416
      @kkteutsch6416 2 роки тому

      Like song writers and interpreters musicians !

    • @theblytonian3906
      @theblytonian3906 Рік тому

      The majority of RC pilots are poor flyers. It comes down to the recreational nature of the hobby, the poor instruction (blind leading the blind) and lack of demonstrated standards or knowledge and understanding required. I concur scale model 'pilots' are observably among the worst of that segment. In times past before the ARTF, because they spent the majority of their time building and dreaming rather than hands on flying.

  • @MultiSkyman1
    @MultiSkyman1 4 роки тому

    That control line pilot at 17:00? Did not know about that heavy pull!

  • @vincef.8261
    @vincef.8261 4 роки тому

    Wow! Neat video on RC Piloting aircraft model planes of the past. Now you can install mini gas turbo jet engines that could powered the 747 model shown towards the end of the video. Or the new large EDF motors.

  • @scottfirman
    @scottfirman 6 років тому +13

    Sadly, many of those award winning planes probably ended up growing dust in a basement,garage or Musium somewhere,never to fly again. Today's planes do not come to this kind of detail.The foam planes being produced in China are crap compared to the best ever details of those planes. Happily, today's servos, receivers and transmitters really making flying RC fun and easy,even for beginners. Hopefully it keeps today's kids interested in RC.

    • @ianking.5721
      @ianking.5721 6 років тому

      These are all custom built.. people have way better material and tech to use nowadays. But I do agree that these planes are insane

    • @BaquePhotography
      @BaquePhotography 4 роки тому +6

      Foam is king!! I've crashed balsa planes I spent months building and its crushing. I quit the hobby several times after wrecks. Now with depron, I can crash everyday and not care a bit. I mean I dont crash everyday, but it wouldn't be a big deal if I did.

    • @Rod_J
      @Rod_J 4 роки тому +1

      The traditional materials are now prohibitively expensive. These new materials have brought design and experimentation back into affordability for the young hobbyist. Also Chinese manufacturers drive to save on material, while they have produced a lot of rubbish have also highlighted how chronically over built many older model designs were.

    • @abundantYOUniverse
      @abundantYOUniverse 4 роки тому +2

      @@BaquePhotography Exactly right. The old days werent that great at all.

    • @ryanlemons3255
      @ryanlemons3255 2 роки тому

      Im resuming model building as i speak currently doing a lazy bee

  • @sharkkakirde1
    @sharkkakirde1 Рік тому

    In today's age of video games, people have forgotten this sport.

  • @Timsfpvshow
    @Timsfpvshow 7 років тому

    Awesome video. Thanks for sharing

  • @CliffHarveyRCPlanes
    @CliffHarveyRCPlanes 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing video 🙂

    • @ccitationx7045
      @ccitationx7045 3 роки тому +1

      Yooooo it's Cliff! nice to see you around, love your videos mate! I'm normally just a BNF guy, but your stick-and-tissue buildthroughs got me hooked, and now I've started trying some Guillows kits. I'm really enjoying them!

    • @CliffHarveyRCPlanes
      @CliffHarveyRCPlanes 3 роки тому +1

      @cCitationX That's great cC, they really are simple and fun, did you see the control line guy at 16:45! No safety barriers either 😗

  • @royalmarutaka4489
    @royalmarutaka4489 8 років тому

    at 17:32 looks like that b-36 is probably an old kyo/eureka kit!

  • @badgumby9544
    @badgumby9544 4 роки тому

    I used to fly at Markham Park. It's commonly known as Mayhem Park these days. Mainly because there is virtually no supervision of any kind. Just west of Ft. Lauderdale in Weston, FL. Nice paved runway and located inside a very nice park that has small lakes, a gun range, bike trails, etc. Also has a nice area for Helicopter flying. RC flying, like a lot of other hobbies has declined tremendously lately. For many reasons.

    • @thedave7760
      @thedave7760 Рік тому

      Does anyone know what year this film was made? I am guessing early 70's.

  • @collinmccallum
    @collinmccallum 11 місяців тому

    im gonna build one of these on my channel someday :)

  • @UncategorizedContent
    @UncategorizedContent 2 роки тому +1

    I was thinking, "damn, somebody really doesn't like model airplanes." Because the first four minutes is like a dark, passive aggressive parody that describes these poor mentally challenged men who've been struck by a disease that consumes them. And then the guy started flipping everyone off around 4:20, kissing the glider not 30 seconds later, and now I don't know what is real anymore.

  • @jaimesoberoelviro2498
    @jaimesoberoelviro2498 4 роки тому

    Good vídeo! I like,😎✌️

  • @1musicsearcher
    @1musicsearcher 8 років тому +29

    When an "ARF" was the sound a dog made.

    • @PerryCodes
      @PerryCodes 7 років тому +8

      I'm sickened by where this hobby has turned... Lazy, lazy, lazy people and asian factories. This video is a testament to a better time.

    • @mikmerl1
      @mikmerl1 6 років тому +6

      Unfortunately you ask for balsa or plywood today in a model shop and they don't know what you are talking about. All you find are boxes of foam toys that you can buy and head directly for the field. No building skills required .

    • @TestECull
      @TestECull 4 роки тому +5

      @@PerryCodes @1musicsearcher you two are what's wrong with the hobby right now. What matters is the grin on the pilot's face when they get their plane off the ground, not the means by which they acquired that grin.
      Me, I'm indifferent about it. I'll fly a foamy, an ARF, a long kit, a foamboard kit, all one right after the other. I've got a Kaos 40 long kit sitting here next to two Flite Test foamboard kits, an EPO F-86 Sabre, an EPO PT-17, several used balsa birds, three balsa ARFs, and I'll be adding a fourth balsa ARF soon as Tower gets the Kaos 60 restocked.
      The really funny thing is today's EPO PNP foamy is as detailed as the second place winners in these contests were, yet flies orders of magnitude better as well.

    • @TestECull
      @TestECull 4 роки тому +1

      @@mikmerl1 Not the case in mine. They still have an ample selection of all the raw woods you could ever want to build from sticks. Still sell old school kits, epoxy, covering, tools, everything one needs.

    • @PerryCodes
      @PerryCodes 4 роки тому +1

      @@TestECull Yeah ... lookout for those people that like to build the plane they fly... A real nasty group they are.

  • @KevanleeRice
    @KevanleeRice Рік тому

    sig makes balsa wood stamp cut kits still need exacto knife to trim

  • @innovatorx2112
    @innovatorx2112 4 роки тому

    Nice vdo

  • @kevinsmith3967
    @kevinsmith3967 4 роки тому +1

    What happened to the great American aeromodeller?

    • @onazram1
      @onazram1 4 роки тому +2

      open your eye's the hobby has advanced far beyond what is in this video

    • @john.t645
      @john.t645 4 роки тому +2

      @@onazram1 has it though? The default model is now a rtf foamie that can be had for 50 bucks

    • @willasproth
      @willasproth 4 роки тому

      John .T and that’s somehow worse?

    • @umbratherios5614
      @umbratherios5614 4 роки тому

      @@willasproth caa/faa happened

    • @gregtaylor6146
      @gregtaylor6146 4 роки тому

      As is evident from the comments on here, today's self-centred woke generation are just too damn lazy!

  • @torqingheads
    @torqingheads 2 роки тому

    The Northern European, Ubermensch, the Master Race.

  • @abdullahkhan8823
    @abdullahkhan8823 4 роки тому +1

    4:53 aircraft kissing gauge

  • @timmylumsden8060
    @timmylumsden8060 4 роки тому +1

    My Dad used to fly Chimpmuncks out of Woodvale ....WTF??

  • @billg7205
    @billg7205 4 роки тому

    24:52 He would have loved to have the gear to make that Mosquito fly. I flew the Guillow's a few years ago. ua-cam.com/video/jmgMwthh9-c/v-deo.html

  • @НиколайГрибов-щ2ш
    @НиколайГрибов-щ2ш 3 місяці тому

    Да на такую модель только смотреть

  • @josipvrandecic2472
    @josipvrandecic2472 8 років тому +1

    You have to look... that some young modelers see that the '' hot water '' has long been invented. Thanks so much.

  • @thermalascension
    @thermalascension 3 роки тому +1

    We came from the sky, and to the sky we will return...🌪️🕊️✝️

  • @willasproth
    @willasproth 4 роки тому +5

    It’s funny to see all the balsa wood warriors annoyed that the hobby is far easier to enter now.

    • @soarstar
      @soarstar 4 роки тому +4

      It's also funny to see all the cooler foam warriors annoyed that the hobby involved greater depth, skill and commitment than now ;)

    • @willasproth
      @willasproth 4 роки тому

      Alby King it can still involve those things, it just doesn’t have too, why is that bad?

    • @soarstar
      @soarstar 4 роки тому

      Will Asproth because we’re an angry judge mental lot! Now buzz off. (Kidding). TBH, it’s two very different hobbies. Scale modeling still exists, it just doesn’t have the same following. I thoroughly enjoy modern-day electronics / propulsion systems combined with the designing, engineering and fabrication required to look as real as possible. I also enjoy flying the wings off foam things. Certainly a lot less stressful.

    • @peterzingler6221
      @peterzingler6221 4 роки тому

      I guess this has to do with the fact that you can see if somebody made his own plane. Bought planes don't get any love or care. I had foamys first then balsa planes and you notice instant care boost. And I like that. I love building just as much as flying

  • @KevanleeRice
    @KevanleeRice Рік тому

    fast dry 2 ppart epoxie model comp best friend

  • @boeesen
    @boeesen 4 роки тому

    Who the h... clicks dislike on a video like this?

    • @bb4l881
      @bb4l881 4 роки тому +1

      Answer to your question is: Younger modelers who don't appreciate what took to get a model aircraft into the air back then. When ARTF came along, it reduced the build time from years to hours, and when you crashed, it went from hurting you emotionally, to only hurting your bank balance.

    • @tocolormemucsic44
      @tocolormemucsic44 3 роки тому

      ARFITES that who

  • @royalmarutaka4489
    @royalmarutaka4489 8 років тому +2

    whats with the dirty words in the caption at 35:30?

  • @jonmcalexander6475
    @jonmcalexander6475 8 років тому

    1976

    • @leifvejby8023
      @leifvejby8023 6 років тому

      I was about to ask, it sure looks mid 70th. ^_^

  • @joewoodchuck3824
    @joewoodchuck3824 Рік тому

    If they ever stop being an elitist monopoly I'll consider joining. Al of their clubs require ama membership. It's extortion.