My first "control Line" model airplane was a Stanzel "Electromic Flash".

Kim Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:37 pm

A very quick look at my Stanzel "Electromic Flash":

Two D-Cell batteries power a motor in the flashlight-like handle, spinning a tiny wire in a plastic sleeve that leads out to the plane and spins its propeller. By "blipping" the push button switch, the Flash could perform touch and go landings, and even taxi for takeoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctALwiHF-_0

My first "control Line" model airplane was a Stanzel "Electromic Flash". 2_1101

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Levent Suberk Wed Dec 06, 2023 2:26 pm

I had this model at the seventies Very Happy

I used it as a whip model when batteries last Very Happy

Thanks

rdw777 Wed Dec 06, 2023 2:58 pm

That’s cool Kim, I had one in the 70’s too….Very innovative of the Stanzel brothers to come up with an electric U-Control…. Probably spurred a lot of kids on to more complex planes….. I remember those foil icicles on the Christmas tree from the video as well … Nice memories…

Robert

pman1111 Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:03 pm

Looks like a lot of fun! There's some available on Ebay if anyone is interested : https://www.ebay.com/itm/275744774951?
There are others but this one is cheapest.

Don

GallopingGhostler Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:06 pm

Back in the 1980's while living in Long Beach, CA, I bought my son one of those, they were still selling them in the toy stores. He was in first or second grade at the time. In our backyard, our cat saw him flying it, ran after the plane to snatch it from the air. The plane's control cable wrapped around the cat's abdomen, he took off like a scalded cat ripping the controller out of my son's hands, jumped our chain-link fence with controller and plane trailing into the neighbor's yard behind us. We saw the cat about 45 minutes later without the plane.

That was the end of our Stanzel Electromic Flash. Sad

getback Thu Dec 07, 2023 6:15 am

WOW Kim that thing goes pretty fast from the drivers seat , never seen anyone fly one like that ... Where you going for a loop there at the end "? Very Happy

Pretty funny stuff George "cats are crazy" Snowman