A Complete History Of Like 1% Of RC Planes
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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.
Please tell me you're going to fly half the Timber with a Craft radio. 😅
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.
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Ha! I bet you're a damn good RC pilot brother Man
@@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.
I do love learning about RC aviation history. Vintage model craft have such an appealing aesthetic.
I agree, that why I’m trying to get my fling skills to be able to fly some nice balsa models
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.
You missed blimp racing...
Everyone is infatuated with that now...
You forgot submarine races
@@ekimnavillus4452 Subs aren't exactly rc planes...
Blimp racing is about as interesting as subs (that you can not see) racing. Its a joke
@@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.
Nice video 👍, but I think you could've mentioned futaba.they were very important in the history of model avation
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.
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.😊
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
What a fantastic trip down memory lane!
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!👍🏻👍🏻
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.
One of your best videos, love history, more history in general would be amazing, hobbico, great planes, horizon and so on.
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.
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.
Thanks for the history lesson. It's important to know our roots.
You missed that Wind Catcher RC was established in 2018. 🤣😂🤣😂
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
I love your videos and smart humor!!! Great coverage of the 1% of history of RC!!!
I'm still sad about Great Plane. They were great planes.
You brought back a lot of memories for this old timer lol good video and info☺😃✈🛩🛫🛬🛰🚀🪂👍👍
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...
Loved how the history is told from the rc plane perspective. ^^
Ah yes, the escapement days! How well I remember, but certainly don't miss!
I keep watching this video and the pictures of "Nikola Tesla" crack me up every damn time!
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.
I still have a pristine Zlin Akrobat 526 from Great Planes! One of my solid weekend flyers if I'm not flying foam
I love that you used the adam west batman for the bats 10/10
The amount of effort that went into this video is insane
I love your channel name, that’s basically what I do as an f2d combat pilot
Thanks for the great videos. The history of pattern and 3d flying would be interesting.
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. :)
I still have an original DX6 that was given to me when I started out by an old guy in my neighborhood.
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!!
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!
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.
3d history please, RIP Hobbico and Great planes. Loving the content by the way.
Such a beautiful song choice too. I just noticed it
RF snipe was precious🤣
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!
Nice abbreviated history lesson guys.
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 😂
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.
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.
Definitely do a vid about the classifed 2.4 ghz radio channels haha
I like how everyone is very close to these very heavy and rather out of control planes, safety wasn't invented yet I assume
I have that exact type of radio and servos at @6:41 lying around..
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.
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.
In all seriousness, I love your humor. 👍😊
Nothing about OS engines or Futaba radios?
Saw a few pics of rubber band powered actuators, I can remember the first electric motor versions before servos. Reed relays for multi channel.
I LOVE RC PLANES!!!!!!!
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.
Standing ovations!
Very interesting, thanks!
Please make plans for mudgy 70 please.
They showed elon for nikola testla😂😂😂😂😂 love it
My brother went from free flight to RC in the early fifties. I bought my first transmitter in 1967.
Great !
The Pixies as an RC video soundtrack, I don' t believe it! Where is my mind?
3D's roots PLEASE!
It main cause is ADHD.
i wonder if those radio transmitter would work with EdgeTX. lol
Good video
Sick!
What were their servos like?
8:20 marks the beginning of the end
please i beg you do a close up video of the red and white sig cub that you severely lightened
Check out our video titled, "Bush Flying A Plane You've Never Heard Of"
I had no idea the hobby was so new.
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.
Ahh, yes, how a bald eagle became a scale kit cub
Well done! Oh it's Mat-tel not Mattel.
I caught that too. Pronounced (MA- Tell)
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.
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.
I wanna see a video of you going to an rc blimp race😅
I love the holy Wikipedia
Realflight dig on point haha
make video with pelikan danje bravus 2400. pls
KALAMAZOO MENTIONED RAHHHHHHHHHHHH
noice!
Why do you refer to Kraft radios as "infamous"?
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...
Military remote control planes
Imagine flying ur plane in the 40s and some baiter screams lower.
i think the one stick remotes would be better
R.I.P. 😆
Virgin Turbo Timber VS. Chad Sig F-33 Bonanza
man your really getting better and better in doing those videos! This was hellarious!
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Great vid, why not make them longer though? 10 min a week is nothing for such great content
Speaking of Digicon if you want a balsa airplane from plans built like a brick sh!t house Build the Digicon Tester or Digester.
"Nikola Tesla" *proceeds to show an image of Elon* Me: This is clearly comment bait. *proceeds to comment*
What has ever gone wrong with sparke and hydrogen 🤣🤣
"Galloping Ghost"
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 ????
Alright, this old man is smiling. Thanks for thriving with the hobby.
wow,
Bicameral… sounds like a term someone i know uses alot.
Icarus should have used 10mm foamboard😔
Totally wasn’t eating Taco Bell
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 😊
Anyone here thinks turnigy lipos are good? Im looking for some lipos that will last a long time but they must Be cheap...thnks
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