I learned to fly control line back in the mid 60's, I around 10 years old, after I got better my dad built me a Flite Streak Sr. with a Fox 35X running pressure, I loved that airplane. In the late 1979 I learned to fly RC then I went in the USAF and was station at Tyndall AFB near Panama City Florida. While I was there I built a version of the Flite Streak Jr. called a Combat Streak it had a built up fuselage rather that the profile fuselage' I built as an RC model I had to leave out the right thrust and right offset in the vertical stabilizer. It flew outstand as an RC model. While I was there I ran into a guy Named Bill Dixson he was the best control line flyer that I had ever seen. Bill wanted to learn to fly RC so I told him that I would be happy to teach him, I had him build a SIG KADET SENIOR with an OS 60 two stroke on it and a four channel Futaba radio, it only took bill a few week ends to learn fly take off and land and after he got comfortable flying RC he flew it like it was a control line model. He flew it 55 ft. away from him and 35 deg's up from his view point he flew it just like it was a control model. That was Bill's Comfort Zone. He turned out to be one of the best RC flyers that I have ever seen and I have seen and taught a lot of them over the years.
Bless you for posting. In 72, I had a balsawood Flite Streak configured with flaps and sporting a Fox 35 engine, a plane featured in my junior high school year book, I belonging to a SoCal flying club called Los Voladores. My Flite Streak was my favorite C/L craft.
The Flite Streak was my favorite plane with a Fox 35 engine back in the 70s.I had 2 of them and one with the wing tips and one rib removed on each end of the wing and boy it was fast.This really brings back great memories
Very cool video, brings back fond memories of flying with my Dad and two brothers in the late 70's. I actually won a Tangerine Meet in Central Florida in 1979 flying a Flite Streak powered by a Fox 35.....
Thanks, I never thought I would fly control line again. It has brought back many fond memories of my childhood and flying with my Dad. I have also met some awesome people and made many new friends.
Wonderfull stuff. Love the video from inside the circle. I haven't frightened myself with a control line model in a good few years, but this makes want to get out there again. Nothing in aeromodelling beats the feeling of a live model on the end of tight lines and usually only milli seconds away from catastrophe!
Thanks! I was looking at some of your free flight videos. Really good stuff. When I get time later today I'll have to go back over the super capacitor one. I'd like to learn more about those. Take care
Outstanding! Just finding a renewed interest in U-control, and started poking around, when I found your video. My Dad and I built a Flight Streak together, back in 1970, powered by an Enya 35. This was my first “serious” airplane, other then Cox .049 models. I still have the Enya, and my control handle, and can’t wait to go out and scare the neighbors! (I don’t think they have a clue!!!) Well done sir!
Something about the Flite Streak seems to elicit a lot of memories. My Dad and I also built a lot of planes together and one of them was a Flite Streak back in the late 60's or early 70s. Had a lot of good times flying together back then. Thanks for replying.
Memories!!! I flew CL a LOT in the early 70's, and I had a Jr. Flight Streak powered by a schnuerle ported K&B 15 pylon racing engine. Of all the planes I built and flew, it was one of the absolute best!
Scott, It brings back memories for me as well. I built one in the late 60's and flew it with my Dad. Even flew some slow combat with it. Of course that one was covered with silkspan and dope. Same here, I thought it flew the best of all we built together.
Great video. Have been getting back into this hobby after a 30 year hiatus. Starting with 1/2A's and working back up. I have a flight streak in my build stash, now I know what a great flyer it is. And I loved the outtakes. I have a launch runway I use, built in a table 3 foot off the ground, it helps a lot with takeoffs.
Thank you, and welcome back to the hobby. I'm amazed at how many views and comments I have received on this Flite Streak video. Just goes to show how popular it was and the fond memories we had of flying it way back then.
Thank you very much for showing the handle position and what the plane is doing in the same frame. You should video the whole pattern doing this. Thanks again, Michael
Great kits, I built and flew quite a few in the 70's. Flew for fun and slow combat. I eventualy bought balsa in bulk, had a friend saw maple strips for wing spars and built from scratch to save a few $$$. We also bought styrofoam in bulk sheets, made our own hot wire cutters and built fast combat planes as cheap as possible, I was not good pilot and went through a lot of planes.
Bob, Thanks for sharing those experiences. We pretty much do the same thing, balsa and kits a very expensive so we build our own. I hope you are still building and flying.
@@nightnav I haven't flown since the 70's and stopped building then too. Family, jobs, etc took over my time. But it was really a lot of fun and I discovered that working with my hands is great therapy for the body and soul. These days I work on bicycles so I can keep on riding into my 80's.
Nice round loops are a challenge with the streak. At the top it wants to tuck under resulting in tear drop shapes. It also wants to jump off the ground on takeoff. something to do with decalage.
The line attached to the top of the handle, when pulled on, causes the plane to climb. The line at the bottom of the handle causes the plane to dive. When the plane is inverted that reverses meaning that pulling the line at the top now causes a dive. It’s a skill that needs to be learned but not that difficult. Every time the plane performs a loop the lines twist. If you perform a loop in the opposite direction you can remove the twist. If you get too many twists in the lines the control is less responsive making it difficult to keep the plane level. The twists cause to much drag to allow them to slide along each other
Hi, I love flying like this. I have 3 favorites sig 35, overpowered of course, sig Banshee, reinforced and overpowered, of course and my own design sport flyer. Good thoughts to you and yours.Pete and Dee from Sacramento California USA
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Fuckin I had one of those things ran a Johnson combat special no venturing sleeve w/crankcase pressure . 21,000 rpm w/ 8 x 8 prop. Had to move on c/l sucks dick.
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I learned to fly control line back in the mid 60's, I around 10 years old, after I got better my dad built me a Flite Streak Sr. with a Fox 35X running pressure, I loved that airplane. In the late 1979 I learned to fly RC then I went in the USAF and was station at Tyndall AFB near Panama City Florida. While I was there I built a version of the Flite Streak Jr. called a Combat Streak it had a built up fuselage rather that the profile fuselage'
I built as an RC model I had to leave out the right thrust and right offset in the vertical stabilizer. It flew outstand as an RC model. While I was there I ran into a guy Named Bill Dixson he was the best control line flyer that I had ever seen. Bill wanted to learn to fly RC so I told him that I would be happy to teach him, I had him build a SIG KADET SENIOR with an OS 60 two stroke on it and a four channel Futaba radio, it only took bill a few week ends to learn fly take off and land and after he got comfortable flying RC he flew it like it was a control line model.
He flew it 55 ft. away from him and 35 deg's up from his view point he flew it just like it was a control model. That was Bill's Comfort Zone.
He turned out to be one of the best RC flyers that I have ever seen and I have seen and taught a lot of them over the years.
Bless you for posting. In 72, I had a balsawood Flite Streak configured with flaps and sporting a Fox 35 engine, a plane featured in my junior high school year book, I belonging to a SoCal flying club called Los Voladores. My Flite Streak was my favorite C/L craft.
It brings back a lot of fond memories for many of us. Thank you for sharing yours.
The Flite Streak was my favorite plane with a Fox 35 engine back in the 70s.I had 2 of them and one with the wing tips and one rib removed on each end of the wing and boy it was fast.This really brings back great memories
Very cool video, brings back fond memories of flying with my Dad and two brothers in the late 70's. I actually won a Tangerine Meet in Central Florida in 1979 flying a Flite Streak powered by a Fox 35.....
Thanks, I never thought I would fly control line again. It has brought back many fond memories of my childhood and flying with my Dad. I have also met some awesome people and made many new friends.
The Flite Streak was the first model airplane where I learned to the entire competition stunt pattern. Thank you
Thanks for your comment
Great video! I think I enjoyed watching & listening as much as you did flying.
Gotta love the Flite Streak!
Thank you, Hard to believe that was 6 years ago.
Wonderfull stuff. Love the video from inside the circle. I haven't frightened myself with a control line model in a good few years, but this makes want to get out there again. Nothing in aeromodelling beats the feeling of a live model on the end of tight lines and usually only milli seconds away from catastrophe!
Thanks! I was looking at some of your free flight videos. Really good stuff. When I get time later today I'll have to go back over the super capacitor one. I'd like to learn more about those.
Take care
Outstanding! Just finding a renewed interest in U-control, and started poking around, when I found your video.
My Dad and I built a Flight Streak together, back in 1970, powered by an Enya 35. This was my first “serious” airplane, other then Cox .049 models.
I still have the Enya, and my control handle, and can’t wait to go out and scare the neighbors!
(I don’t think they have a clue!!!)
Well done sir!
Something about the Flite Streak seems to elicit a lot of memories. My Dad and I also built a lot of planes together and one of them was a Flite Streak back in the late 60's or early 70s. Had a lot of good times flying together back then. Thanks for replying.
Memories!!! I flew CL a LOT in the early 70's, and I had a Jr. Flight Streak powered by a schnuerle ported K&B 15 pylon racing engine. Of all the planes I built and flew, it was one of the absolute best!
Scott, It brings back memories for me as well. I built one in the late 60's and flew it with my Dad. Even flew some slow combat with it. Of course that one was covered with silkspan and dope. Same here, I thought it flew the best of all we built together.
Had (and still gave hanging in my shop) a Red monokoted Flight Streak Jr. w/K&B 19, next to it is a Yellow & Purple Shoesting w/ a Supertigre .46
Great video. Have been getting back into this hobby after a 30 year hiatus. Starting with 1/2A's and working back up. I have a flight streak in my build stash, now I know what a great flyer it is. And I loved the outtakes. I have a launch runway I use, built in a table 3 foot off the ground, it helps a lot with takeoffs.
Thank you, and welcome back to the hobby. I'm amazed at how many views and comments I have received on this Flite Streak video. Just goes to show how popular it was and the fond memories we had of flying it way back then.
Nice looking plane and excellent flying skills. Thanks for the memories.
Thank you very much for showing the handle position and what the plane is doing in the same frame. You should video the whole pattern doing this. Thanks again, Michael
Great flying
Great kits, I built and flew quite a few in the 70's. Flew for fun and slow combat. I eventualy bought balsa in bulk, had a friend saw maple strips for wing spars and built from scratch to save a few $$$. We also bought styrofoam in bulk sheets, made our own hot wire cutters and built fast combat planes as cheap as possible, I was not good pilot and went through a lot of planes.
Bob, Thanks for sharing those experiences. We pretty much do the same thing, balsa and kits a very expensive so we build our own. I hope you are still building and flying.
@@nightnav I haven't flown since the 70's and stopped building then too. Family, jobs, etc took over my time. But it was really a lot of fun and I discovered that working with my hands is great therapy for the body and soul. These days I work on bicycles so I can keep on riding into my 80's.
Used to fly Flite Streak with Super tiger.35 in the late 60's for fun flies. Nobler with McCoy .35 for stunt.
Excelente control 👍🏻 Gran espectáculo! Gracias!
Thank you
Wicked good.Wow!
I have a couple of these. I fly them with older .25fp's but I use 10x4 or 10x5 props depending on the day. Great flying planes!
My favorite control line airplane.
Got dizzy just watching. The sounds are right on the money. I swear I smelled burnt fuel there for a moment
Good sound....Sounds like a Synthesizer
Good moves!!!
Good fun. Mine is a bit too sporty with a TT.40.
Nice round loops are a challenge with the streak. At the top it wants to tuck under resulting in tear drop shapes. It also wants to jump off the ground on takeoff. something to do with decalage.
Mine was a flight streak junior , with a paw 19 , flew, great magic days . KR .
I built one from a Brodak kit, and two ARF;s all flew well, I liked the Kit version best.
Beautiful combination. what size fuel tank.
Thanks! The tank is a Brodak 2 1/3 oz Wedge. Measures roughly 2" x 13/8" x 21/4"
Still Cool.
i had a dual fuselage double engine flight streak with dual Enya 19s. easy to fly and super fast.
Very cool! Do you have any pictures of it?
unfortunately not.. it was years ago, i had polaroid pics of it and no longer have them
What happens when the cables are twisted, will everything become inverted? Looks like it should be impossible to control?!
The line attached to the top of the handle, when pulled on, causes the plane to climb. The line at the bottom of the handle causes the plane to dive. When the plane is inverted that reverses meaning that pulling the line at the top now causes a dive. It’s a skill that needs to be learned but not that difficult. Every time the plane performs a loop the lines twist. If you perform a loop in the opposite direction you can remove the twist. If you get too many twists in the lines the control is less responsive making it difficult to keep the plane level. The twists cause to much drag to allow them to slide along each other
what length are your lines?
60 feet
Hi, I love flying like this. I have 3 favorites sig 35, overpowered of course, sig Banshee, reinforced and overpowered, of course and my own design sport flyer. Good thoughts to you and yours.Pete and Dee from Sacramento California USA
Thank you - I have a Banshee as well. I learned to fly the patern with it about 2.5 years ago. Still learning. Take care
Had one once. Must remind yourself when you are flying upside down the control is reversed. Down is UP. And Visa Versa.
Looks like a Peacemaker
That's not a Peacemaker. I have one. Full moulded fuslage, upright engine swept tail.
You need to get in shape man.
Me encanta tengo uno parecido que estoy restaurando
Me encanta este modelo
Mi avion tiene un motor torpedo 19
Espero terminarlo pronto para subir un video
Jose, A torpedo 19 should work well on the Flite Streak. Good luck with the build and I look forward to seeing your video.
What he said!
Fuckin I had one of those things ran a Johnson combat special no venturing sleeve w/crankcase pressure . 21,000 rpm w/ 8 x 8 prop. Had to move on c/l sucks dick.
mark r Scranton pa thx excellent
Thank you
no thank u so much my best
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