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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @Charleston_SC
    @Charleston_SC 3 роки тому +1

    Could not help but notice the external antenna wire. Brings back LONG-AGO memories. "Thanks for the memories"!

  • @THEoriginaljmelford
    @THEoriginaljmelford 4 роки тому +4

    I started R.C. flying when I was stationed in Okinawa in 1966 with one channel push button rudder only rubber band excapement.
    It was a lot of fun and this video brought back some good memorys.

    • @THEoriginaljmelford
      @THEoriginaljmelford 3 роки тому

      @Fred Smith yes until I got to Taiwan where I had an electric excapement for the rudder and I used the rubber band one for the engine. One press of the button was right turn, two presses of the button was left turn and three presses was either full power, half power or idle. So at idle you could land.

    • @THEoriginaljmelford
      @THEoriginaljmelford 3 роки тому

      @Fred Smith In Tiawan there was 55 gallon drums of clear dope that was used on the C47 tail surfaces (they were covered in cloth) since they didn't have any C47's still based there we were allowed to use as much as we wanted. It was super thick and on my 54inch wingspan Piper J3 it was like a sheet of plastic, very strong and hard to puncture.

    • @THEoriginaljmelford
      @THEoriginaljmelford 3 роки тому

      @Fred Smith no thinners. There wasn’t many parts over there for the hobby so you had to make do with what you could find. The engine was a control line Mcoy 19 redhead that I installed a carburetor on and the fuel tank I had to make out of a small plastic or rubber bottle I found in the base exchange.

    • @THEoriginaljmelford
      @THEoriginaljmelford 3 роки тому

      @Fred Smith I never thought about thinning it, just used it full strength . I never had a reed system. For fun in the early 1980’s I designed a rudder only parasol style aircraft for the push button one channel system and the younger flyers couldn’t believe you could do loops with rudder only. Hard left turn followed by hard right turn and then when the rudder came back straight the plane had enough speed it would loop. I still have a small one channel Rx and tx that I used in a boat.

    • @THEoriginaljmelford
      @THEoriginaljmelford 3 роки тому

      @Fred Smith I found an old 1940’s? Free flight engine in my mothers barn it doesn’t have a manufactuers name but has a symbol 4 circles one inside the other it is missing the magneto, needle valve and fuel tank but still has the champion spark plug. It swings an 11/6 prop and still has good compression. It looks to be bigger than a .19 and when I looked on google a smaller one like it that was a .19 sold at auction. Do you or anyone you know who made this engine?

  • @joethompson-tv1ss
    @joethompson-tv1ss 2 місяці тому

    Wish I still had my Giant Aeromaster with a Zenoah 45. So much fun and such a great flyer. I sold it when I was needing money to buy Christmas presents!

  • @FarmerFpv
    @FarmerFpv 4 місяці тому

    This is so incredible. I have a Berkley Models 16-4 Astro Hog that my grandpa gave me. He taught me to fly with it 15 years ago. It still flies incredibly. I fly it with a Futaba Gold FP-T7FG/K Transmitter with a 2.4gHz conversion. I also have my Grandpa's Premier Tiger Moth DH82A De Lux with a .91. I would love to bring them to one of these events to fly them.

  • @claudiomenesesc
    @claudiomenesesc 4 роки тому +1

    So many memories, smiles, and an occasional tear....

  • @rcjrpilot
    @rcjrpilot 5 місяців тому

    What an awesome idea to build and fly vintage models ..
    That is something the Rc Clubs sure integrate on one of the fun fly activities every year.
    I love this video and those gorgeous models airplanes, well done. Thanks for sharing…..

  • @sandragrace4613
    @sandragrace4613 5 років тому +9

    Thanks for the memories of my Dad, who invented Rom Air Retracts!

  • @Edubarca46
    @Edubarca46 7 років тому +4

    What a fantastic trip to the past. I still prefer all these models from several years ago. I have my original Kwik Fli Mk. III built in 1970 with which I won pattern way back in 1970, it flies like no other model. Simple, beautiful, noisy!! and excellent flyer. No modern pattern aircraft can compare to these old timers. Keep up the good work!! Greetings from Colombia.
    EDUARDO

  • @JamesRCPlaneTech
    @JamesRCPlaneTech Рік тому

    Very nice. Im almost finished with a Balsa USA Smoothie. So great to see these classic planes!

  • @design2survive
    @design2survive Рік тому

    That would be really fun to attend. I rebuilt a Goldberg Falcon 56mkii that my uncle originally built in the mid 70's. I posted a flight with it on my channel, I flew it quite a bit last year.

  • @oscar35575
    @oscar35575 2 роки тому +1

    Absolutely fantastic!!

  • @JessHull
    @JessHull 4 роки тому +3

    I love vintage RC planes, As a young person I wish more peple were into vintage style RC modeling. I like to go on ebay and buy vintage unbuilt kits and make them. I just got one from 1948....

  • @RCPowerbusByProxy
    @RCPowerbusByProxy 4 роки тому +1

    Nice vid! Beautiful vintage plane designs and radio sets. Cool!

  • @billsomrak
    @billsomrak 6 років тому +2

    Nice to see so many planes from the heyday of my RC airplane career (I now fly multi-rotor UAVs to shoot aerial videography). Started with single channel superregen escapement controlled R/O plane, went to Galloping Ghost proportional, and finally made my way up to full proportional, flying in Class C/D aerobatics and pylon racing. Sure was fun. Even flew in an aerobatic event against Pappy Debolt, who was flying his #8 Encore at the time. Great memories. Sad for me to think that all the guys I grew up idolizing are now "hangar flying in heaven" .. from Dr. Goode, to Ed Kazmirski, Phil Kraft, Don Brown, Ed Lowe, Maynard Hill, and my good friend, flying & golfing buddy, Austin Leftwich. Thanks for sharing.

  • @easystar123
    @easystar123 5 років тому +2

    Brilliant video. I really enjoyed watching these vintage model aeroplanes.

  • @paulbrouyere1735
    @paulbrouyere1735 4 роки тому +1

    Great, I was an RC pilot in the ‘80s still have a Hawk MK II powered with 10 cc Thundertiger engine. Only one flight on the counter. Everything still running. Last plane I made in 1986. Specially ordered from I think it was Canterbury England, with glasfiber fuselage.

  • @jpurcha
    @jpurcha 7 років тому +3

    Nice video. I like the comments from the older builders. Great planes.

  • @twincam825
    @twincam825 7 років тому +5

    Thanks for posting wish the hobby was still like this build and fly and some really good designs.Flew a kaos for years won my first AMA pattern event with it.Theses where some of the best designs for model planes thanks again for posting.Will be looking you up to join your club.

  • @stephenshay535
    @stephenshay535 4 місяці тому

    Just ran across this. I remember a lot of these guys because of my father. As a side note. We had a factory tour once personally from Pappy DeBolt.

  • @jamesberwick2210
    @jamesberwick2210 4 роки тому +1

    My life of modeling goes back to the 1950's and watching my dad fly early Escapement, then read radios in California. I had Dad's original Snyder Cub, with the original radio. When I went to move, the mice had eaten the wing apart and the fuselage had gotten so old the balsa snapped. I think I saved the radio, and the Anderson Spitfire engine, plus movies of him flying it back some where around 1955-56. I had hoped to bring the entire plane, but the mice won. If I get to come to one of your meets, I'll bring the movies and let people see dad flying. My first powered RC, a Midwest Esquire, with a Veco 19, I modified it for trike gear, easier for me to get airborne plus an early proportional radio. Fifty years later, I no longer fly RC but CL, lost most of our fields in CA.

  • @catzeiler
    @catzeiler 2 роки тому +2

    Remember Snoopy from Hegi and Amigo from Graupner.

  • @michaelmaucher998
    @michaelmaucher998 4 роки тому +2

    This is awesome, I'm so glad that something like this exists and thank you for uploading this incredible event. I just love this era of model aviation when it was exactly that (real modeling), the satisfaction you get from building an aircraft from a pile of material and then flying it is such a thrill and something that seems to be increasingly lost these days.

  • @gilbertoolvera5072
    @gilbertoolvera5072 5 років тому +1

    congratulations from mexico city i like your channel the best.

  • @MrRecall200
    @MrRecall200 3 роки тому

    I'm not particularly in to vintage rc stuff, most of it was made before I was born. But I do have a bunch of models that date back to the early 70s that I've picked up for next to nothing at garage sales. A bunch of them have flown great and I do love the vintage cox engines, that sound, lack of a throttle and total randomness of when they will cut out sure adds to the experience. Just picked up a high wing type thing set up for 2 cox motors. I'm pretty curious how getting both started and it in the air would work out, and what it flies like on one motor. All have to give it a try this summer.

  • @mr1bienvenu1
    @mr1bienvenu1 5 років тому +2

    I have a Bridi Kaos and Sun Fli. They look very much alike but the Sun Fli has a Enya.25x on it. I also have a Sig Kavalier

  • @digigarb
    @digigarb 3 роки тому +1

    Fantastic!

  • @johnnichol9412
    @johnnichol9412 6 місяців тому

    At 4:36 "Kiel Kraft" is Keil Kraft.

  • @Jimmyzb36
    @Jimmyzb36 6 років тому +2

    Thanks for this! Is there Any one out there who used a kit built Heathkit or Ace radio? I built a 7 channel single stick kit.

  • @redbearrc6706
    @redbearrc6706 Рік тому

    When I started in the hobby 1982 I saw some pictures Hanno Prettner was a good friend of the racedriver Ayrton Senna.Senna was also a rc fan and had a rc racetrack.

  • @saito125
    @saito125 8 років тому +2

    At the 9:15 mark I see a Taurus... I'm planning on building one for my local vintage meet in 2017, but I'm thinking of putting a G60 Blue Head Supertigre in it. Would it be too much? I realize the original design calls for a 45, but I really love the ST. Thanks for posting this great video.

    • @P6dave
      @P6dave 8 років тому

      You've got a throttle!

    • @saito125
      @saito125 8 років тому

      Yep, indeed... been using it for over 40 years. LOL

    • @luissoto7127
      @luissoto7127 2 роки тому

      That’s a good engine for the Taurus and the OS Max FSR.61 also is a good one .

  • @Redwood0351
    @Redwood0351 5 років тому +1

    Very cool! Really enjoyed your video

  • @warbirds3339mike
    @warbirds3339mike 7 років тому +3

    Beautiful Thank You So Much

  • @monkfry
    @monkfry 7 років тому +1

    Boss planes! I have a vintage gas biplane, any advice on how to clean the layer of dust off without damaging it? It's handmade, tissue, dope and decals. Any help would be great.

    • @yngveamundsen5184
      @yngveamundsen5184 5 років тому +2

      Friend,
      Usually you can use plain water, luke warm, with a tiny drop of dishwashing soap in it, just enough to make the goo disappear. Just stay away from those "newfangled spray-on-wipe-off" detergents, in many cases they contain alcohol and/or other solvents that ruins the finish. The most important thing is to be patient and avoid rushing the cleanup, this will give you the best result. Good luck! :)

  • @mr1bienvenu1
    @mr1bienvenu1 5 років тому +1

    I have an original Kaos and SunFi made by Bridi. They need a tiny bit of work and to be covered. I can't find anyone to do the work for me.

  • @JesseWright68
    @JesseWright68 5 років тому

    What power system is used in the Ace GLH?

  • @collinmccallum
    @collinmccallum Рік тому

    amazing!

  • @pdel303
    @pdel303 8 місяців тому

    great stuff. from back when planes had 'personality' lol.

  • @dino9285
    @dino9285 4 роки тому +1

    bel video ragazzi👍

  • @hondaxl250k0
    @hondaxl250k0 5 років тому +2

    i have a bunch of old 1960s and 70s transmitters and some other odds and ends if anyone's interested.

    • @normanberger1623
      @normanberger1623 5 років тому

      We have a Yahoo Group as well as a presence on RC Groups you are welcome to let people know what you have available.//

    • @hondaxl250k0
      @hondaxl250k0 5 років тому

      @@normanberger1623 I don't know much other than UA-cam. I don't even have Facebook . Not sure where to even start to join Yahoo.

    • @normanberger1623
      @normanberger1623 5 років тому

      @@hondaxl250k0 If you send me info via email will get it posted for you.//

  • @aeromodelisme45
    @aeromodelisme45 7 років тому

    Bonne initiative que de faire revivre ces anciens modèles

  • @billjones3071
    @billjones3071 3 роки тому +2

    Nothing beats the smell of nitro fuel (castor oil)

  • @offroad5594
    @offroad5594 5 років тому +1

    Wow great upload, many thanks!! So great to see real RC planes not the foam garbage that Horizon Hobbies is peddling these days. Those were the days you were proud of how your plane looked and flew at the local flying club.

    • @jjs3287
      @jjs3287 4 роки тому +2

      Foams not all bad guys. I remember back to the 1970s and 80s when radio modelling was difficult to get into. You had to join a club, make friends and hope someone would take you under their wing and because of the noise and complexity of the whole process it just wasnt that accessible. I came into the hobby at a junction between electric and balsa and built a Ben Buckle Taylorcraft (converted to electric) and a Balsa craft Hurricane. As a busy working guy with a young family those planes took years to build. I taught myself to fly in large parks on an Electrafly motor glider because the quiet electric motors were not offensive to the dog walkers and loved my balsa planes. Still have them. But its all we really had and when foam came out (We had a GWS Mustang as a first low wing plane) We could now have a scale looking plane that was cheap and didnt take years to build and so i was more relaxed flying it. For years i enjoyed total freedom until the drone laws came along. I used to fly the little UMX planes almost anywhere and now thanks to gyros i could even fly really small scale looking models that would not have been possible in 1975. One day i will build another balsa plane but for now i am more than happy with my off the shelf foamiies.

  • @samuelwragg8615
    @samuelwragg8615 10 місяців тому

    From an era when modelling required numerous skills to be able to fly

  • @cristianogiustozziarchitet9846
    @cristianogiustozziarchitet9846 6 років тому +1

    Hi Beppe!

  • @nocturnalmayhem0
    @nocturnalmayhem0 5 років тому +2

    so.what was vintage in 1989? lol

  • @markwison4286
    @markwison4286 7 місяців тому

    youtube is reading my mind... I'm sitting here in 2024 next to a brand new kwik fly 60arf from Global debating on putting it together.

  • @gixer6847
    @gixer6847 4 місяці тому

    best model has to be the Tiger Tail 64" 60 Size originally designed in 1973