Finally got my Starfighter...maybe two?

Yeah! Vintage pattern! What airplane is it?
I keep telling myself i want to get my Compensator flying one of these years...

Mark Boesen wrote:Yeah! Vintage pattern! What airplane is it?
I keep telling myself i want to get my Compensator flying one of these years...

Yes, a lot of us are waiting to see you get this dude going. Me since 2010! First of all, find a 10cc Macs pipe and that'll allow the Rossi to sing. I think that one is a 6.5 pipe.
Chris...

That Starfighter looks very nice in your case Mark. Oohh that TD 1 under it. I dream about one of those someday! Boy you do a nice building job. My Spirit was a Miles Reed Fun Fly ship, a modified Kwik-Fli. We kept these as light as possible. I used main gear instead of trike (funny, now pattern ships are back to main gear). There is the rear intake HP 61 in it.

Thanks, the whole bottom row of that case are "restores" the TD-1 and TD-2 were both eBay deals that had fuzzy photos, oily, dusty, bad descriptions, etc., all the things that can deter buyers.

What kind of radio did you use?

As a kid in the early seventies, i remember i used to study model airplane mags cover to cover and dream of having a full house pattern job, with a huge .60 engine!

Chris, i was telling my kid last night in fact, i think i'll look at some new glasses so i can see better and maybe do some flying this summer, but then again that darn disc golf keeps getting in my way, went out yesterday, trudging thru the snow.

Mark,
I started with a 3 tube WAG Tone single channel built from an Ace kit, Esquire, Bonner Vari comp, Fox 15 steelfin with 10-3 1/2 prop. Later I used the Ace Kraft 3V relayless xistor rcv, Jr Falcon, 1/2A Skylane, and some originals. When I graduated from college and got a job, I got a World Engines 10 channel reed outfit, Debolt Pshooter with a Fox 59 RC; read OVERPOWERED! Quickly built a more docile ship with a McCoy 19 RC. I finally built a Heathkit GD 19 RC set, the one with the Kraft sticks and KPS9 servos. I used to fix RC sets for buddies. The IF xformers had very fine wire that often broke in a crash or from vibration. The Heath used ceramic transfilters and eliminated that problem. Also, old propo servos has sometimes open resistor feed back or semi open pots; dirt was a problem. The KPS 9s used capacitor feedback and eliminated that problem. I used that until work stopped me from flying around 1980. I also had a Kraft 3 channel brick for my sailplanes. When I retired in 2004 and got back into RC, I bought a Futaba. I still use it. Maybe 3 years ago I bought a Spectrum when they had a super free receiver deal. I use it for ships I take to other fields and fly ins.

I don't think anyone should have to suffer all the pains of old RC. It was very hard to fly rudder only successfully and reeds weren't much better. Proportional changed all that. You could fly a brick on ukie and with propo darned near on RC! I don't miss the old stuff!

GREAT PHOTOS! GREAT PLANES!

Here's a couple oldies...



C. 1985- Sig Kiwi and Kadet Mk. I


Nathan Bast, the guy that designed the Freshman Series for Testors, also designed this, it was called a Groover!


What's that cool logo on the side of the Cardinal?

This thread is just sensory overload, I love looking at all the old models.

I had an old reed system, never could get it to work. So I bought a Blue Max radio kit, remember those? Called them Blue Max but all the components were black. I wired it myself and was amazed when it all worked, even all four servos. I couldn't do it today, hands shake to bad to solder those small connections, but it was fun at the time.

Ahh the reeds. The reed receivers had a coil mounted under a set of magnetic reeds of various lengths. Each reed would vibrate when an audio signal of its resonant frequency was applied to the coil. When the reed vibrated it closed an electrical circuit to make a servo run in ONE direction. So each servo needed 2 signals, one for each direction. A typical 10 channel out fit had 5 servos, throttle, aileron, rudder, elevator, and elevator trim. The longest reed that vibrated at the lowest frequency controlled the signal for down elevator. An engine could cause a vibration at this reed's resonant frequency with unfortunate results.

I always wondered about that low frequency vibration from the engine and it's possible result.

I didn't start flying R/C until 2008, I flew C/L Stunt for 40 years. I have two Futaba 72 mhz radios, but don't use them anymore. My Hobby People power glider was a 2 channel Ace Commander from the late 2000's but the design was from, When? ... 60's sometime? Neat way to learn, I just flew it like a powered free flighter until I realized I was turning it the right way every time, then I built an RCM Trainer with ailerons and throttle with my T6XAs, then a Kaos with an Airtronics SD-10G. It what was around and available and I knew the names of the designs. Love Classic stuff. Love the 2.4Ghz systems, never had the slightest reception problem. I'm going to fly my EU-1A this season and fly a couple of Classic Pattern contests with it, blackhead Rossi and all, 2.4 of course.
Chris...

Nice!!!!!