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…..
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....
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
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.
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.
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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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! :)
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.
