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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bill: Don't
quit! Love these old
stories.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dave</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=billglaze@triad.rr.com href="mailto:billglaze@triad.rr.com">Bill
Glaze</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:57
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Malibu ??</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Tom: <BR>Remember it well. After the Orbit came along,
flying was much as we see it today. Dunham's stuff was among the first
that worked reliably all the time. (Well, most all of the
time!<G>) So, 8 flights on a Sunday wasn't too unusual, depending
on how crowded the frequency was. I went to 6 meters, (Old call sign was
WA6BRZ) so there wasn't a problem with frequency. <BR>Boy, did I love
it! Still is fun to reminisce, but the ranks of guys that were
active participants are thinning pretty fast. <BR>Average contest attendance:
150 or so. (I was a CD, and remember the figures.) <BR>We used to have
over 50 for the monthly club contest. LARKS (Los Angeles Radio Kontrol
Society) club had ~400-450 members. If we didn't have over 200 for a
monthly club meeting, we wondered what happened. Keith Storey, Cliff
Weirick Howard Bonner, Bill Deans, Bob Dunham, Johnny Brodbeck were
members........ah, the good old days. Saw them every Sunday at the
field. <BR>Anyhow, enough. Probably too much for most of the guys.
I'll quit.
<P>Bill Glaze
<P>"Thomas C. Weedon" wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <SPAN class=750443321-12022003><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>Bill,</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=750443321-12022003><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>I still have my 27.255mc Babcock transmitter and receiver plus the
compound and SN escapment. I had a 6' Buzzard replica with a Mcoy 35 Red
Head. I doubt it still works. Had to carry 5# of batteries; A, B and C. Lots
of fun flying. If you could get the plane back down without breaking it, you
were lucky. One flight per day was normal.</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=750443321-12022003><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>Tom Weedon</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=750443321-12022003><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>WA8WAA</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=-1>-----Original Message-----</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT size=-1><B>From:</B> discussion-request@nsrca.org [<A
href="mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org">mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org</A>]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Bill Glaze</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=-1><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:14 AM</FONT></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=-1><B>To:</B>
discussion@nsrca.org</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=-1><B>Subject:</B> Re: Malibu ??</FONT></FONT> <BR> </DIV>Jeez,
you newcomers like Oddino and van Putte make me smile. How about
1954: state of the art was Babcock 3 channel, TUBES for gosh sakes, plug
in relays, a 3 channel radio that weighed 3 lbs., super-regenerative front
ends in the receivers, escapements (driven by wound up rubber bands),
non-self neutralizing servos, only one RF frequency, unless you were a Ham
radio operator, (27.255 mc, or 452 mc.) Most used the engine of
choice, a Fox .35, when K & B brought out the Green Head R/C with
coupled exhaust baffle, it swept the field. And, I was there! <BR>I
could go on and on, but don't want to put you young 'uns to sleep.
<P>Bill Glaze
<P>JOddino wrote:
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<FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>You're right on the spelling Ron.
Gie. I went out in my goodie box and found one in a package with
instructions. We should explain it wasn't a pot, just the wiper,
but it made a big difference with cermet elements that would wear holes
in the brass wipers. The good old days.</FONT></FONT> <FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=-1>A Rhett story.I got to the Nats on the last day
of qualifying in 1972 and Bill Salkowski said I should see this kid that
is up just before him. Turns out the kid was great but the judges
had never heard of him and so he didn't qualify for the finals.The next
year the boys from the South talked him up all year and he had it won
before he got there.There is a big message here. The game is a lot
more complicated than just flying well. If you want to win you
need to understand the game.Jim</FONT></FONT>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=vanputte@nuc.net href="mailto:vanputte@nuc.net">Ron Van
Putte</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 10, 2003
8:37 PM</DIV>
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<P>JOddino wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid006901c2d186$38872900$d9be1b42@socal.rr.com
type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Hey all you old guys, do you want to buy some Geizendanner (sp?) pots?</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>I
think I'm going to pretend that I don't know what you're talking
about. <BR>BTW, I think it's Giezendanner. Geez! That
seems like <U>forever</U> ago that we fiddled with pot replacement
every 50 flights or so. The wuss pilots these days wouldn't put
up with that.
<P>Ron Van Putte
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