Control Line Plane First Time Flight - TheRcSaylors
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- We've never tried control line plane flying before so our good friend Dan from Wisconsin brought his with him and decided to let Nate have a go! What an adrenaline rush! All we can say is now we have to get one of our own so Abby can try too! Thank you so much Dan for letting us fly, and soft crash your awesome plane!
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another oldphart chiming in... used to fly gas engine control line back in the late 60's and early 70's. thanks for bringing back the good memories! 😁
Glad that you tried control line. It always provides good times
Nate, that was fantastic! Nice recovery at the start. You had it flying great!
I fly both control line and RC planes and love them both. I have found that the best way to get everyone to stop flying RC is to fire up one of my control line stunt planes and tear up the pattern. There is something about the tactile feel of control line stunt you don't get from RC that really intrigues me. You can actually feel what the plane is doing and it just kind of talks to you throughout the flight.
Looks like you experienced some fun handle time. Flite Streaks was designed by George Aldridge same guy that designed the Nobler. Be careful or you might get hooked. Control Line National championship is flown every year at the AMA NATs.
Like with RC a trainer pilot should have been on the handle with you. Because your already a model pilot you would have got the hang quickly and not have crashed. I have taught kids and adults at Oshkosh Kidventure. Never a crashed plane. Have fun.
Not as easy as some think, I have reintroduced, myself to this flying 3 years ago, did it as a child with Cox planes, then went to R/C and raised a family. It is challenging 😃
I started out with control line when I was a kid. Not too many who could afford r/c back then.
That thing is quite impressive. All i kept saying the whole time was WOW!!!
Flying it was Such an adrenaline Rush!
My dad was really into this in the 50s. He flew combat, stunt, and speed planes (off a dolly) and competed in the Nats in 1955? I know he was very proud of his trophy! He also built and flew 'free flight" airplanes (Like the Buzzard Bombshell) then as well. I actually did some as a young child also long before ever flying RC.
Wow, thanks!! Great memories from 30-35 years ago.
No problem! I really enjoyed this experience :)
why are you starting out with a flightstreak why
I am a old man ,those kits were when I was younger,I had silver p,51 .but I have seen them on the internet for a lot of money,they did crash well.
My brother used to fly line control all the time. I did buy a cox F4U Corsair and had a blast flying it. I actually designed a self launcher for it to keep the nose up as it taxied. I flew that plane for a while till I wrecked it. After that I lost interest and moved on. Watching my brother fly planes bigger than that was pretty cool for me. He was really good at it. When he moved out,he took his planes and eventually got into RC. I finally got back into it years later. Nate you did ok for a first timer. too much wrist action there but another prop and it was fine. I am sure he brought one of his cheaper models,just for you. Line control is still a thing,just not as popular,for obvious reasons.You can however fly in windy conditions with them.
Cool flying Nate , your videos are the best way to start of the day great filming to Abby keep up the amazing work!
That's how I started flying models planes back in the early sixties.
Old school is what got us "here". Learn about and FROM the past!
This would so be me. I was rooting for you the whole (but short) time Nate.
Et le chef pilote au milieu pour tenir la main du débutant ....??
Une petite astuce pour éviter les montés et descentes trop violentes pour monter ou descendre lever ou baisser l'avant bras et cela suffit à faire monter et descendre le modèle plus doucement .
les coups de poignées à l'articulation sont plus destinés à la pratique de l'acrobatie quand le débutant sait voler à plat ....!
Voilà bons vols
Merci!
Back in the early 80's, I got started building planes for RC - the first of which was a J3 Cub that took me a month to build - 5 seconds to destroy! So my second build was control-line, .049-powered, and still took a month to build. Also, it still took 5 seconds to destroy! 5-year-old logic stated then that we might as well be crashing RC, which I've been doing ever since. :-)
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Where are all my racing quads, I wanna try my old control-line....
That's why I bought a plastic u fly plane,it was cheaper to cash,but that was a long time ago ,they put the 049 engine in everything back then
Awesome control-line weed eater! Looks like fun. Lowe's is going to sell a million of these. Really great video guys.
Control line flying was my introduction to model planes thanks to an after school club run by one of the teachers who was an absolute control line freak lol! I absolutely loved it and went all through school and would have continued if it wasn't restricted to pupils only.
Hopefully you'll have already caught the bug and will build one (or more) of your own. If you built two you could do have a laugh doing some dogfighting with the boss too ;)
I flew when I was younger and then into rc planes the 30 years started rc again but for some reason I just finished a control line plane and I am l❤oozing forward to trying it again. I'm 71 so it will be a rush
Impressive flying . I could tell that the real pilot had flown combat before. That's where two pilots fly in a 5 foot circle together and cut at each other's streamers . This often results in line tangles and mid air collisions . Very aggressive and FUN.
What I didn't see was any outside loops or outside figure 8s . That would have more impressed me . That the pilot could fly upside down (inverted) or had the skills to do do outside manovers.
I'd eat his lunch in a combat match . He would have to show me some more skills .
I'm glad to see that c l flying is not forgotten . It should be the entry level platform to learn aeronautics. You saw how the r c pilot had such trouble. It's not as easy as you think . Just saying I enjoyed the demonstration.
had these as kids very fun
This was an amazing experience getting to fly Dans plane!
Hey Nate and Abby, this video is awesome! Made me smile and laugh all over again. Nate I know the fight was short but you did a great job with it considering I put you out their with minimal instruction. The plane will fly again as soon as I get a little time for the minor repairs and the wisconsin weather decides to behave itself. Thanks again for a fantastic weekend hopefully we'll be able to do it again sometime. Can't wait to see the rest of the footage from the weekend.
That was awesome, Dan! Great flying! It looks like fun. 😃
It is fun! And something I don't get to do often enough.
I smashed my first 3 control line planes and ended up taking to free-flight gliders and powered planes instead. I still smashed planes but the speeds were lower and thus, so was the damage.
Your first flight was better than mine :)
glad to c yall had a good time wish i could have attended
Wow that's a good video
Looks like a Carl Goldberg "Flight Streek " had quite a few. Always glue the rudder to the outside of the circle and adjust the motor mounts.
hey nate & abby that was cool
Flight Streak, What engine and length of lines
Aside from the girlie scream at the start....Back in the 60's when we were teaching newbies to fly U control, we usually figured they would destroy the first 2 or 3 Ukie planes learning to fly, so we usually started them out on trainers that were almost like boards and were almost indestructible, they have to master the basics of flight and learn to deal with the dizziness.
Hahaha, I did that to be funny after my near crash ;)
We don't need these RC guys to give control line credibility !
I’m not sure that I understand your comment. Could you please explain? For context, this was just me trying control line for fun. Now, what exactly did you mean by your comment? ⚓️
Nice video. I used to fly control lines too, and to stop from getting dizzy going round and round we would just stand there doing figure eights in one spot and then go the opposite direction ha ha. We also would do combat with tail streamers, 2 guys back to back in the centre of the circle, trying to cut the other guys streamer with out getting tangled up. Was great fun. Happy flying.
That sounds absolutely amazing!!
You sound like you my age,wish they still had them .
Wow, that was crazy! I remember having a control line plane back in the 70s when I was a teen - as I recall, it lasted about 20 minutes before I totally destroyed it!
I thought that was Abby doing bird calls. Reminded me of my maiden flight of my Christmas present Kenhi Bobcat Ukie back in the early 50's. Nobody explained that you are supposed to hold your wrist stiff and raise and lower your hand in response wind effects to keep flying more or less level.
hey bro you were flying one of the greatest models of all time!
the good ole flight streak...i didnt know you could imitate a crow lol...cawww cawww haha...
and that wild dancing too...epic...we wont let you forget about that flight bro!
on a serious note...have you considered testing the bayangtoys x16 gps model? i think youll like it...
I'll have to check that out :) Yeah I was willing to do whatever it took to keep his plane in the air! What an adrenaline rush!!!
Thats awesome
That plane is amazing
I loved getting a chance to fly this :)
that is so cool ☺☻
I used to fly one of those when I was a kid that my father made for me. It was a little smaller than Dan's. I think it's still at my mom's place. I'll have to check & see. Looking forward to the 3 part series of the FunFly. Great video Nate & Abby!! :)
That'd be cool if you found it! You could get it cleaned up and maybe fly it, or hang it on the wall :)
TheRcSaylors If I do find it, I'll let you know
Next time DoNot move your rist use your àrm the plane will follow arm lock your rist
I loved trying this! Hope to spend more time on control line in the future 👍❤️💯⚓️
That was making me dizzy just watching it ! :-)
I killed thousands of hours flying control line in the late '70s early '80s. Tether cars too. Man the cars were dangerous...
Nate : The first airplane I ever flew was a control line P51 Mustang. I crashed just like you did, only with a lot worse outcome. I didn't back up and turn fast enough. A thirty second flight that took 2 weeks to fix. That was 58 years ago! Radio control was in it's infancy. Really crude and very expensive. Two channel crystal controlled frequencies.
Oh boy talk about retro. I learned how to fly on Cox PT 19. It was a trainer. So if you crashed it you could put it back together and fly it again.
model nutty : My dad went to the hobby shop in Boston. They had replacement props, canopy and a big tube of Testors airplane glue. While he was there, he picked up a Cox Marine Corsair. I crashed it three or four times. It turned out good thing he got the large size tube of glue and a several spare props. I almost forgot about the crushed match head, empty CO2 bombs. My dad had a CO2, .177 pellet pistol we would shoot in the basement. I would surreptitiously collect the empty cartridges from the trash. My dad let me buy M80 looking smoke bombs for the 4th of JULY. I would take the green fuses out of them and reuse them. Those CO2 bombs were super loud and dangerous. They would fly apart in big pieces. ;-)
Don fish ,was your plane silver,,I think you and I had the same plane.,and half of the boys from that era,they were popular
Ron : The P51 was silver. The Corsair was blue. That was soooo long ago.
Wow, very cool. It's been a long long long long and a half time that I did control line. My Dad made this gizmo that I sat outside of the circle and used a joystick :-) :-)
It was really fun! I'm glad I got a chance to experience flying this way. Something that I wasn't sure I'd ever get to do!
Brings me back,I owned and flew a cox EZ-Flyer Skymaster and PT-19(with pilot & instructor )on PT-19 ,made me more dizzy than flying in a real full scale plane.Kinda like Murdoch from the A-Team movie when he grabs the heli blade and sings "you spin me right round baby right round" rotating.
I'm really glad I got to experience this, and a huge thanks to Dan for letting me fly, and crash his control line plane!
If you wanted power get the sterling ringmaster
That was cool, wow I would surely fall over from being dizzy lol. Wooooo Woooooo !!!
Not strictly rc. Lol. IMAGINE Fpv on this plane. Ha. Sorry, I should stop the jokes.
When I had my u fly ,the line was a lot shorter,the guy had a nice plane,mine was a already assembled,a 049 ,gas engine,some line ,a battery for the glow plug,and a pint of fuel nitro.all for under 20.00.I wish they would still sell them.
Woah! All for under $20 is amazing!! I do think they still sell these as kits some places.
So many fun toys. But I have no idea how anyone could store them all or even afford them. Are some sent free by companies for your reviews? Been watching, just not commenting. Keep up the good work.
awesome to see how it use to be done
good try Nate . That would be hard to fly .. I would get to dizzy doing that ..I had a control line plane when I was a kid .was not as big as that one they were just small one .. Great video awesome .. Hi to Abby too !! :)
My only question Nate is.... what bird call was that that you were doing? Couldn't quite place it. LOL
Up until a little over a year ago when I started flying UAV's the last time I flew was U-line like everyone else. (Remote control.... what's that?)
That was the excited line flyer call ;)
That's what I love about you guys....... you reply to idiot post such as mine. hahaha
*Dance the Skies*
Holy crap is this the first time a nitro has been on your channel?? You should do more realistic nitro planes besides electric
Do you guys review any horizon hobby products
you guys should show the trazzas aton drone
I spent months on building and painting my first (and last) control line.
Then rammed it right into the ground after less than a second, smashing it beyond recognition. :D
Old school. Had theses type planes and the tethered gas powered prop driven (!!!) cars (scary awesome :)). Cool stuff. Spinning in a circle. Seems a bit dated though with what we have RC wise. Nice video. thanks Jeff
I'm really glad I got to experience this first hand. Makes me appreciate the technology we have now that much more, and the skills of those that used to fly this way just for the love of aviation!
Wow. The last time I had see u-control flying was back in the early 90's at puyallaup washington swap meet event.
They are so cool! ! ! Should review a tether car ! ! LOL at the war whoop ive done something like it flying 😊
A tethered car, that'd be pretty.crazy!
They are ! ! I started my rc addiction with one.. dam i feel old. lol
My Dad flew control line planes, he would never let me fly one though
Hi!
Hi :)
herro
wow... I got dizzy watching that, do you not get dizzy flying it
Could do this with a racing quad lol, right stick held forward with a rubber band :)
oops watching the flash,missed the download🙄
We just released this :)
OK watched video. wow I haven't seen line flying since back in the 60's. didn't know they still made those. 😐. good first attempt,🖒. those things are difficult to get used to. would a shorter line have given you better control ❔ should you have a different jar for when I break their's 😆😉 lol
I'm 13 and fly better
than the first guy and i build my own planes
I smashed my first string controlled plane also. Ended up using the propeller off it on a friends cox pt19. The propeller was a bit smaller than the stock pt19 one so it flew slow and I could handle that!
sound like a girl... wooohhhh wooooohhh
Hi Rcsaylors. Review the jlb cheetah 21101 new version.
can you do a drone funtic of a company revel control
pls ;)
Too dizzy for me.
i flew control line first too....it was awful...lol.
I had a beautiful TWISTER C.L.P. that took me 6 months to make , I tried to fly upside down ,,,,and I took it straight into the tarmac where it exploded into a million pieces and broke my heart ...don't try this at home kids ....................
I'm still dizzy ((@)) ((@))