A Complete History Of Like 1% Of RC Planes

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  • @yuuzyerbrejn9603
    @yuuzyerbrejn9603 Рік тому +22

    I take umbrage at one of your final points regarding whether or not we could fly on one of those antiquated controllers and I say this to you, sir; I've been in this hobby for years, and I can crash ANY plane with ANY controller! Ya'll are a treasure, keep it up.

    • @SeanPoulter
      @SeanPoulter Рік тому +1

      Please tell me you're going to fly half the Timber with a Craft radio. 😅

  • @coriscotupi
    @coriscotupi Рік тому +10

    I started flying RC in 1976, with a balsa kit (the "Taxi") by Graupner powered by a Super Tigre .23 glow engine and controlled by a Simprop SSM 5-channel radio. No dual rates, no expo, no programming, nothing. Just bare-bones, 4 proportional and one on-off channel. And the thing was so incredibly expensive (1K US$ for a 4-servo system) that it was inconceivable to have multiple receivers and servos for various models. I had one Tx, One Rx, four servos and one battery, and that was it. When I wanted to fly another model, I had to transfer all the on-board electronics. Then in the 80s I got a Futaba radio with plenty of affordable servos, receivers and batteries so I was finally able to crash more than one model in a single day at the flying field.

    • @JustPlaneNutzRC
      @JustPlaneNutzRC Рік тому +1

      🤣🤣

    • @HciContractor
      @HciContractor Рік тому

      Ha! I bet you're a damn good RC pilot brother Man

    • @coriscotupi
      @coriscotupi Рік тому

      @@HciContractorI'm not the one who stands out at the field, no fancy 3D, no latest & greatest models. But I've been having so much fun out out of this hobby. That's what counts.

  • @air-headedaviator1805
    @air-headedaviator1805 Рік тому +16

    I do love learning about RC aviation history. Vintage model craft have such an appealing aesthetic.

    • @s__s_6242
      @s__s_6242 Рік тому +2

      I agree, that why I’m trying to get my fling skills to be able to fly some nice balsa models

  • @sed6
    @sed6 Рік тому +10

    This video makes me feel lucky to have been flying RC for 40 plus years now, and to have had hands on so many of these innovations.

  • @whatsthematter8767
    @whatsthematter8767 Рік тому +59

    You missed blimp racing...

    • @tfs_nugget1843
      @tfs_nugget1843 Рік тому +3

      Everyone is infatuated with that now...

    • @ekimnavillus4452
      @ekimnavillus4452 Рік тому

      You forgot submarine races

    • @whatsthematter8767
      @whatsthematter8767 Рік тому

      @@ekimnavillus4452 Subs aren't exactly rc planes...

    • @ekimnavillus4452
      @ekimnavillus4452 Рік тому

      Blimp racing is about as interesting as subs (that you can not see) racing. Its a joke

    • @spindash64
      @spindash64 8 місяців тому

      ​@@ekimnavillus4452they're a bit like golf in that they're probably way more exciting to fly than they are to watch. The main difference is, I don't believe blimp pilots are generally insanely rich assholes. Well off, probably, but not exclusively classist and gated community.

  • @MJ-bj1gn
    @MJ-bj1gn Рік тому +8

    Nice video 👍, but I think you could've mentioned futaba.they were very important in the history of model avation

  • @hotheadedfilmshhf6734
    @hotheadedfilmshhf6734 Рік тому +7

    Lol my girl heard the first and only female part and it was pretty funny. Shes the one who got me into this hobby which is the funny part.

  • @pancudowny
    @pancudowny Рік тому +1

    I hold memories of my late-father's enthusiasm for flight, which included flying model kits he built... such as a vintage monocoupe, that required the builder to cut general balsa stock (bought separately) to match the shape of pieces displayed on it before initial assembly. When I showed an initial interest in flight, we recovered the finished model from storage at an uncle's house, along with a Citizen Ship on/off-switch transmitter and uninstalled servos that used rubber band escapements. Being an employee of a large corporation, he was able to make reprints of the original blueprints for our to-be-done ambitious recreation of this lovely model... which was never realized.
    Oh-well... at least we have the joy of SIG's basic rubber band-powered kits, that we built gluing balsa to the paper diagrams we pinned to 1"-thick Styrofoam during assemble and final main wing setting.😊

  • @Bill14886
    @Bill14886 Рік тому +2

    Damn I feel old. I use to fly on 72 mhz. With crystals that plugged in the change channels. Clothes pins in a board with the channels being used at th clubs, the good old days. Lo

  • @griffinneal4267
    @griffinneal4267 Рік тому +4

    What a fantastic trip down memory lane!

  • @My2cents860
    @My2cents860 Рік тому +1

    Fantastic history lesson boys! I miss thumbing through all the rc magazines in the old days. Very well written as usual. Always my favorite weekly video! Keep up the great work!👍🏻👍🏻

  • @jlester42
    @jlester42 Рік тому +3

    I learned RC in the early 70s with a single channel pulse radio controller. And a Carl Goldgerg Falcon Junior with an cox .049 And fond memories of my dad's CG Cessna Skylane 62.

  • @roamin9871
    @roamin9871 Рік тому +2

    One of your best videos, love history, more history in general would be amazing, hobbico, great planes, horizon and so on.

  • @DennisRex-c4c
    @DennisRex-c4c Місяць тому

    My first radio system back in 1974 was a 4 channel Citizen Ship. It was heavy and didn't have any of today's bells and whistles, but it worked and was tough. I kind of wish I still had it just for the nostalgia factor.

  • @johnw5734
    @johnw5734 Рік тому

    My first radio was a 2 channel MRC bought around 1978. Vertical (pitch) stick on left and horizontal (roll) stick on right. I'm sure that's why I'm a mode 1 flyer today. We spent several afternoons flying gliders with Walt Good visiting my club field back in the day. I didn't appreciate my start in RC was so close to the beginning of proportional. Thanks for making this video.

  • @WindCatcherRC
    @WindCatcherRC Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the history lesson. It's important to know our roots.
    You missed that Wind Catcher RC was established in 2018. 🤣😂🤣😂

  • @kalvinwinder
    @kalvinwinder Рік тому +1

    Been building and flying RC for about 8 years, it's quite fascinating seeing where the hobby was born. Technology has obviously advanced significantly throughout RC's history, though it's surprising to see how similar all of the "ancestral" models are to the modern stuff. Just now realizing how disturbing the usage of that word was in that sentence but I'm going to leave it. Also, the memes are on point

  • @31Solvap
    @31Solvap Рік тому +3

    I love your videos and smart humor!!! Great coverage of the 1% of history of RC!!!

  • @justindurand9110
    @justindurand9110 Рік тому +9

    I'm still sad about Great Plane. They were great planes.

  • @SlowFlyer85
    @SlowFlyer85 Рік тому +4

    You brought back a lot of memories for this old timer lol good video and info☺😃✈🛩🛫🛬🛰🚀🪂👍👍

  • @ToddRichmond
    @ToddRichmond 3 місяці тому

    1st radio - Ace Pulse Proportional 1-channel (rudder only). Never forget that "thwack-thwack-thwack..." of the actuator. Running on 27MHz, a local CB radio could knock it out of the sky ("no honest, I crashed because of RF interference"). 2nd radio - Cirrus 3-channel, mostly with 1/2A racers running aileron and elevator. Never forget the color coded clothespins on the pole to get your frequency. 3rd radio - NX8+. Talk about a time warp...

  • @DonJoh-w5y
    @DonJoh-w5y 3 місяці тому

    Loved how the history is told from the rc plane perspective. ^^

  • @wampuscat7433
    @wampuscat7433 Рік тому +1

    Ah yes, the escapement days! How well I remember, but certainly don't miss!

  • @greenseaships
    @greenseaships Рік тому +1

    I keep watching this video and the pictures of "Nikola Tesla" crack me up every damn time!

  • @boardnski156
    @boardnski156 Рік тому +1

    Elmira in NY is pronounced as "el-MY-rah". Not "EL-mirrah". The site is Harris Hill, which is technically in Big Flats. The National Soaring Museum is located there. The view from the top of the hill is pretty good. And yes, gliders running out of thermals and having to land in fields does happen occasionally.

  • @monchichis333
    @monchichis333 Рік тому +1

    I still have a pristine Zlin Akrobat 526 from Great Planes! One of my solid weekend flyers if I'm not flying foam

  • @Reeheeheehe
    @Reeheeheehe 4 місяці тому

    I love that you used the adam west batman for the bats 10/10

  • @BashTillBroken
    @BashTillBroken Рік тому +12

    The amount of effort that went into this video is insane

    • @samuellondke9108
      @samuellondke9108 Рік тому +1

      I love your channel name, that’s basically what I do as an f2d combat pilot

  • @ssrattus
    @ssrattus Рік тому

    Thanks for the great videos. The history of pattern and 3d flying would be interesting.

  • @duncanmartin2626
    @duncanmartin2626 Рік тому

    Brilliant video. I don't know if this is some sort of easter egg type joke, but M. is French for Mr. So if you want to search for the frenchmen mentioned at 1:42, you want to search for Christian de Launoy. :)

  • @whatsthematter8767
    @whatsthematter8767 Рік тому +2

    I still have an original DX6 that was given to me when I started out by an old guy in my neighborhood.

  • @JustwingitRC
    @JustwingitRC Рік тому +1

    Thank you guys so much for posting this! It's hilarious, but I KNOW you'll agree, that how many of the "I've been in this hobby for 50 years, yadda, yadda" crowd don't even know that there were radios with things like rates and expo as far back as the 1980's (and likely before). They always give me a dumbfounded look when I say such things existed while they try to claim expo wasn't around until recently, completely ignorant of the history of the hobby. Kudos for another great viddy by the krazy kids from the Granite State!!

  • @Videolinquency
    @Videolinquency Рік тому

    Sure, I have had proportional radios since the seventies. But I still haven't managed to develop proportional thumbs, which used to be more of a problem before Arduplane was developed. When I started out in the sixties, I used to press a button once for full right rudder, and twice for full left. Worked OK from frozen lakes, but made slope soaring a bit demanding ... Thanks for the flight down memory lane!

  • @uTube486
    @uTube486 Рік тому

    You guys are just too cool. Your videos have the quality of a channel W/ 500k to 1m subs. If ever in Rhode Island, pls stop by the hobby shop my parents started in 1950.

  • @jeremykg1569
    @jeremykg1569 Рік тому

    3d history please, RIP Hobbico and Great planes. Loving the content by the way.

  • @aSpyIntheHaus
    @aSpyIntheHaus Рік тому

    Such a beautiful song choice too. I just noticed it

  • @notoo7
    @notoo7 Рік тому

    RF snipe was precious🤣

  • @tannerwindau2426
    @tannerwindau2426 Рік тому

    What an awesome video, Tail Heavy is a very big reason I got back into rc planes, and loving it going on a year back, keep it up!

  • @darendth8594
    @darendth8594 Рік тому

    Nice abbreviated history lesson guys.

  • @jimmcdougall9973
    @jimmcdougall9973 Рік тому +4

    Great presentation of history. And very entertaining. I haven’t laughed so much in a long time. Thank you.
    Seems going to the opera was a real blast, back then. Dang, I would even go, if they had those zeppelins flying around 😂

  • @awood12345
    @awood12345 Рік тому +2

    Great video. I think you should do a video where you try the different transmitter modes. I've flown modes 1/2/4 and would like to try mode 3 or a cuddlebox just to try it. It hurts your brain after awhile.

  • @slick1142
    @slick1142 4 місяці тому

    I remember my first radio controlled transmitter and and receiver and four servos put out by a company which is no longer around called Heathkit and yes I had to put it all together which was the Transmitter,Receiver and servos from the ground up. When it was done I had a 4 channel single stick Transmitter with a Receiver and 4 servos. It was a pain soldering all those tiny resistor's and capacitor's that went into the system and then when it was done and I flew my first plane with it and was amazed that it actually controlled the airplane. I will always remember that system and yes I did move to my next system being a Futaba.

  • @ShockeWulf190
    @ShockeWulf190 Рік тому +1

    Definitely do a vid about the classifed 2.4 ghz radio channels haha

  • @FMSPilotRC6
    @FMSPilotRC6 Рік тому +1

    I like how everyone is very close to these very heavy and rather out of control planes, safety wasn't invented yet I assume

  • @puchomoreno
    @puchomoreno Рік тому

    I have that exact type of radio and servos at @6:41 lying around..

  • @flynbenny
    @flynbenny Рік тому +1

    I would like to see the 3D history video, I am guessing one of the guests of honor would be a certain gentleman from Argentina.

  • @joepellissier2091
    @joepellissier2091 Рік тому

    Circus Hobbies has also gone the way of the dodo. Not sure how big they were but back in the day, but early 90’s they were big on the west coast. That is where I got my first RC radio set up for a Telemaster.

  • @bokusimondesu
    @bokusimondesu Рік тому

    In all seriousness, I love your humor. 👍😊

  • @bloatedgoatfpv
    @bloatedgoatfpv Рік тому +1

    Nothing about OS engines or Futaba radios?

  • @babbagebrassworks4278
    @babbagebrassworks4278 Рік тому

    Saw a few pics of rubber band powered actuators, I can remember the first electric motor versions before servos. Reed relays for multi channel.

  • @Booster-xw6er
    @Booster-xw6er Рік тому +1

    I LOVE RC PLANES!!!!!!!

  • @yakacm
    @yakacm 9 місяців тому

    During the war that allies use radio control for drones, they also packed old worn out bombers with explosives and flew them by RC in to enemy targets.

  • @samosaarts
    @samosaarts Рік тому

    Standing ovations!

  • @markymark3075
    @markymark3075 Рік тому

    Very interesting, thanks!

  • @Jesusistheonlyway86
    @Jesusistheonlyway86 Рік тому +1

    Please make plans for mudgy 70 please.

  • @Krash_fpv
    @Krash_fpv Рік тому +2

    They showed elon for nikola testla😂😂😂😂😂 love it

  • @alangeddes268
    @alangeddes268 8 місяців тому

    My brother went from free flight to RC in the early fifties. I bought my first transmitter in 1967.

  • @TomislavReskovic
    @TomislavReskovic Рік тому +1

    Great !

  • @ztoon13
    @ztoon13 Рік тому

    The Pixies as an RC video soundtrack, I don' t believe it! Where is my mind?

  • @madatthesky7588
    @madatthesky7588 Рік тому +1

    3D's roots PLEASE!

  • @power21100
    @power21100 Рік тому

    i wonder if those radio transmitter would work with EdgeTX. lol

  • @cecilbell6799
    @cecilbell6799 Рік тому

    Good video

  • @dronepilot260rc
    @dronepilot260rc Рік тому

    Sick!

  • @kadenhunt1462
    @kadenhunt1462 Рік тому

    What were their servos like?

  • @jonathanmoore7472
    @jonathanmoore7472 Рік тому

    8:20 marks the beginning of the end

  • @mrfourtysevenman
    @mrfourtysevenman 8 місяців тому

    please i beg you do a close up video of the red and white sig cub that you severely lightened

    • @TailHeavyProductions
      @TailHeavyProductions  8 місяців тому

      Check out our video titled, "Bush Flying A Plane You've Never Heard Of"

  • @jeremiahjohnson3018
    @jeremiahjohnson3018 Рік тому

    I had no idea the hobby was so new.

  • @allendyer5359
    @allendyer5359 Рік тому

    I got a kick outa hearing Kalamazoo as the starting point...and that you never ever once mention museum in Muncie, IN. Won't be missing my next issue of AMA Park Flyer Mag either as it always had stories about free -flight, hey build this bigger plane, or save on all these gas powered supplies.

  • @bevis9136
    @bevis9136 Рік тому

    Ahh, yes, how a bald eagle became a scale kit cub

  • @smackfpv
    @smackfpv Рік тому +1

    Well done! Oh it's Mat-tel not Mattel.

    • @DizzyRC
      @DizzyRC Рік тому +1

      I caught that too. Pronounced (MA- Tell)

    • @yakacm
      @yakacm 8 місяців тому

      Yeah same, I was thinking did he mean Mattel, I googled matal RC, and got nothing, so I guess it must be Mattel, as a Hot Wheels collector, I just assumed everyone knew how to pronounce it, obviously not, lol.

  • @RARenfield
    @RARenfield Рік тому

    Wow, a Spektrum transmitter with the screen on top!?! All the new ones put the screen under the strap where it's useless in flight. Backward progress. 😊Real flight is Windows only, so I never wasted money on it. I had a simple two channel radio flying slope soarers in '73. I don't recall the brand, but it cost me about $100. I remember the nasty work I did to earn that too.

  • @Donuts_random_stuff
    @Donuts_random_stuff Рік тому

    I wanna see a video of you going to an rc blimp race😅

  • @ironagentm544
    @ironagentm544 Рік тому +1

    I love the holy Wikipedia

  • @iflyrcmike
    @iflyrcmike Рік тому +1

    Realflight dig on point haha

  • @my_tv-i
    @my_tv-i Рік тому

    make video with pelikan danje bravus 2400. pls

  • @jaekipark3012
    @jaekipark3012 Рік тому

    KALAMAZOO MENTIONED RAHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @airorc5141
    @airorc5141 Рік тому

    noice!

  • @jamesberna6099
    @jamesberna6099 Рік тому

    Why do you refer to Kraft radios as "infamous"?

  • @Squancher69
    @Squancher69 Рік тому +1

    I wish dual Twin-Timber to fly at least more than 10 seconds. I can't wait to see it, no matter to results. I wish you so much fun and luck! 😊 You put so much work into it...

  • @haydenbartling5126
    @haydenbartling5126 Рік тому +2

    Military remote control planes

  • @Real_1968
    @Real_1968 Рік тому

    Imagine flying ur plane in the 40s and some baiter screams lower.

  • @shelliesalza
    @shelliesalza Рік тому

    i think the one stick remotes would be better

  • @gmorphan
    @gmorphan Рік тому

    R.I.P. 😆

  • @ShockeWulf190
    @ShockeWulf190 Рік тому

    Virgin Turbo Timber VS. Chad Sig F-33 Bonanza

  • @motoerhead1990
    @motoerhead1990 Рік тому

    man your really getting better and better in doing those videos! This was hellarious!

  • @vietnamairlines0202
    @vietnamairlines0202 Рік тому

    0:26

  • @Nelson-sr2bi
    @Nelson-sr2bi Рік тому

    Great vid, why not make them longer though? 10 min a week is nothing for such great content

  • @Jesusistheonlyway86
    @Jesusistheonlyway86 10 місяців тому

    Speaking of Digicon if you want a balsa airplane from plans built like a brick sh!t house Build the Digicon Tester or Digester.

  • @ignasanchezl
    @ignasanchezl Рік тому

    "Nikola Tesla" *proceeds to show an image of Elon* Me: This is clearly comment bait. *proceeds to comment*

  • @magnuslarsen3791
    @magnuslarsen3791 6 місяців тому

    What has ever gone wrong with sparke and hydrogen 🤣🤣

  • @meyermicro
    @meyermicro Рік тому

    "Galloping Ghost"

  • @frankienv3906
    @frankienv3906 Рік тому +1

    Such a Rich history about a wonderful innocent hobby, So why does the Gov. Suddenly decide now to break everyone's balls with remote ID ????

  • @Craig-m4e
    @Craig-m4e Рік тому

    Alright, this old man is smiling. Thanks for thriving with the hobby.

  • @alanjones2091
    @alanjones2091 Рік тому

    wow,

  • @ekimnavillus4452
    @ekimnavillus4452 Рік тому

    Bicameral… sounds like a term someone i know uses alot.

  • @galkoritnik6455
    @galkoritnik6455 Рік тому

    Icarus should have used 10mm foamboard😔

  • @ewkvids
    @ewkvids Рік тому

    Totally wasn’t eating Taco Bell

  • @trondaustad8617
    @trondaustad8617 Рік тому

    Cool to see this old pics. Seems like we crash allot to day allso. And we have not learn a shit. But up we go, and fun we have. Love it boys 😊

  • @Elisrc.
    @Elisrc. Рік тому

    Anyone here thinks turnigy lipos are good? Im looking for some lipos that will last a long time but they must Be cheap...thnks

  • @walterdennisclark
    @walterdennisclark Рік тому

    Heathkit