steel players who also do rc model planes

Mike Archer · Post by **Mike Archer** » 4 Jun 2015 9:02 am

are there any steel players here who also

build and fly rc model planes?

for those who don't please don't knock my post ok

please post if you do

thanks mike

Lee Warren · Post by **Lee Warren** » 4 Jun 2015 10:02 am

I don't, but think it would be a fun hobby!

Mike Archer · Post by **Mike Archer** » 4 Jun 2015 12:01 pm

it is Lee I like building um

to chase them down is a little hard on an old

man like me hehe

mike

Dick Sexton · Post by **Dick Sexton** » 4 Jun 2015 1:08 pm

U Control in my teens, always competition. Stunt/Combat... RC in the 70s when the radio gear had just gone proportional. Knew the builder and designer of EK Eletronics... Pattern and Pylon Racing. 40 and 60 class which was pretty big back then. Lol! Kaos, Nobler, Voodoo... Built everything I flew. Nothing like the smell of drying Butyrate Dope or burning castor oil. I miss it...

Mike Archer · Post by **Mike Archer** » 4 Jun 2015 1:44 pm

hey Dick I liked your post I started in 65'

with u control a guy behind us was in the navy

he was a huge mentor to me!!

I built jetco p 51 top flite .35 size planes

dope and silkspan man what a smell loved it!!

do you remember ambroid glue??

you name it I was 14 years old then for the next

30 years I just did work and music then in 1995

I got back into it in rc and dabbling ever since

Stephen Cowell · Post by **Stephen Cowell** » 4 Jun 2015 3:06 pm

This question immediately brings Roger Edgington to mind... He's into quarter-scale (big!) and is a private pilot. He and Judy live at one of those fly-in neighborhoods... aviator's dream. If you ask him to show pictures, be prepared... he's not shy about it!

Me... I've crashed a few... got a Gentle Lady put together, looks too nice to crash.
I'm what you call an 'armchair' aviator.

Mike Archer · Post by **Mike Archer** » 4 Jun 2015 3:18 pm

hey Stephen

ill ask him about that 1/4 scale is huge for sure

but ive seen larger planes wow

if I could post some pics I would right now

I cant get um to the comp

well I di fly but its been awhile

last year is a blurr after my fall and neck breakage I just started back building yesterday
on a fun 51 40 size

ive been back playing steel now for about 6 months
so its coming along again after the fall

Jim Hoock · Post by **Jim Hoock** » 4 Jun 2015 6:27 pm

I'm in...Great Lakes, Chipmunk, Futaba...just another one of those "hobbies" that seems like it oughta be easy!

Jerry Berger · Post by **Jerry Berger** » 4 Jun 2015 7:14 pm

Back in the late 1950's my two brothers and I built and flew U-control model airplanes with the Cox .049 and COX .020 Thimble Drome engines mounted on them. I still remember the smell of glow fuel once the engine started. Those were great memories!

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 5 Jun 2015 3:23 am

I do.
In fact, I've been crashing my .40 trainers for years now

Scott Duckworth · Post by **Scott Duckworth** » 5 Jun 2015 3:42 am

to chase them down is a little hard on an old man like me hehe

I tried getting into it, but had the same problem!

I'll just stick with steel and ham... radio that is...

Mike Archer · Post by **Mike Archer** » 5 Jun 2015 5:24 am

you guys are the greatest!!

thanks so much for sharing about the hobby

you made an old man smile this morning

I guess most of my hobbys are just planes and

steel guitar im so blessed to be able to do this in my older years

yes ive flown .40 size and 1/2 a planes too

ive crashed a bunch too but hey that's all part of it hehe

Roger Edgington · Post by **Roger Edgington** » 5 Jun 2015 5:26 am

Stephen's got me down pretty good. Started out in Columbus, Oh. flying Firebabies with thimbledrone .049 up thru a stack of Ringmasters and Voodoos. Got my first radio in 1973. Really love the hobby. The designer of the Nobler and Flight Streak (George Aldrich)lived right behind me here in San Antonio. Like to fly everything from electric indoor to Giant Scale gas. Like to build my own planes but do have some ARF's. Played hooky yesterday and flew my converted electric Long John. Also have 2 small EDF jets and 12" equals 1 ft. Scale BC12D 1946 Taylorcraft. so I guess you can say I am addicted. Partially built full scale Baby Great Lakes.
We spent the day mowing the club field.

Roger Edgington · Post by **Roger Edgington** » 5 Jun 2015 5:28 am

IT'S BEEN PLANES AND MUSIC AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER JUST LIKE MY DADDY.

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 5 Jun 2015 5:37 am

Do free flight hand launch gliders and rubber-powered aircraft count?

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 5 Jun 2015 5:41 am

Mr. Papic from "Promat" guitars does, I sent him some parts for his planes a few times

db

Jim Priebe · Post by **Jim Priebe** » 5 Jun 2015 3:57 pm

Yup! did rubber powered then sailplanes then control line then radio control. Now they're hanging up and my eyes are the limitation. I still drag out motors and start them up to smell the methanol & castor !

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 5 Jun 2015 5:07 pm

hey, Mike, I've always thought RC planes were really cool. In fact any kind of scale modeling, trains, military, etc. still holds fascination for me. My older cousin was a Veterinarian and built and flew RC planes to relax. I'll never forget going to a meet with him, a guy had built a large scale model of an Army Grasshopper scout plane, that included an amazing hand-made model of the pilot that was articulated and attached to the servos for flight control, so that when you operated the rudder and ailerons , he'd move feet and stick… everyone gathered around oohing and ahhing over the craftsmanship and detail. He revved it up, took off, made a slow circle around the field, and then looped it right into a pine tree. Splinters. Made a real impression on me...

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 5 Jun 2015 5:27 pm

I still have a 12' x 12' HO train setup in my basement and I'm flying electric planes now, less work and cleaner

My wife calls these things "Gentleman's Sports"

Bill Liscomb · Post by **Bill Liscomb** » 6 Jun 2015 4:07 am

Been flying rc gliders for 45 years. Lil' T, Wanderer, Windfree, Hobie Hawk. Then in the 80's 1/4 scale and larger scale gliders. Manufactured retractable landing gear unit for gliders for a while, scratch built a few scale gliders. Nowadays it's mostly electric gliders because I'm in MA not CA and the flying is "different" here. Also done some gas and electric planes over the years, raced rc sailboats for a few years too - that was a blast, still have one.

Mike Archer · Post by **Mike Archer** » 6 Jun 2015 5:43 am

I built a few gliders too scratch balsa jobs

all hand toss wow what fun they are

I like electric planes too no fuel and battery

no starter just turn it on Im going to dabble

in that to I hope!!

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 7 Jun 2015 2:25 pm

my dad was heavily into building planes. late 50's. ringmaster era. he built some beautful planes as well as totally rebuilding and covering an old aeronca champ (real airplane).
i'm sure the dope affected us. i built a couple.
u control. went to alot of model plane meets. the whining speedplanes and the big 4 engine bombers and the dogfights and stunts. big memories of my childhood. thanks!

for you machinist tinkerers, he even designed a throttle before anything was offered that was an aluminum block with holes that had a piece inside that moved to alter the airflow into the input of those cox motors. it worked. my dad was amazing. had been a bush pilot in the northwest territories.

Mark Greenway · Post by **Mark Greenway** » 7 Jun 2015 4:27 pm

I was coming home the other day and I saw a guy out in a vacant field next to the highway flying a remote controlled airplane. I pulled over just to watch it. He was flying a blue Navy Corsair.

It looked like a lot of fun and something that I would like to do someday.

Mike Archer · Post by **Mike Archer** » 8 Jun 2015 3:42 am

yes Chris I remember the ringmaster planes very well I built several and flew them
at that time we didn't have heat shrink covering
for the wings we had silkspan which you dipped
in water and stretched out over wet dope wings
and ribs and when it dried it shrunk nice and tight
then came colored dope in many colors!!

and Mark I like navy blue!!

I built one sterling corsair and bought one my navy friend and mentor built crashed both I was sick
but I learned but I still crash um!! also a p-51
a p-38 and a slew of others

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 8 Jun 2015 3:45 am

My very first build was a P51 and it took me almost 80 hours to build.
It took off fine and climbed out over the San Francisco bay as the batteries fell out of my transmitter.
By the time I got them back in the plane was on it's way to Europe.
I ofter wonder where it landed.
Never made that mistake again

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