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Having been (accidentally, I guess) in near the beginning, I feel privileged
to have seen the evolution of what we now have. A few visionaries
(Bob Dunham, Howard Bonner, among others) saw what was on the horizon.
I just enjoyed the fruits of their work. It still was great being
associated with them, and being able to drop in at their places of business.
The industry was small enough then that you were always a welcome
break from business. Lots of intermingling; Ray Downs wife, Edie,
(for Edith) worked for Howard in his business on Jefferson Blvd in L.A.
She also did the best job of covering with nylon I ever saw. She
would cover an entire six foot Astro Hog wing with one piece of nylon,
tip to tip, and never a wrinkle anywhere. She covered all of Ray's
airplanes. Ray and Edie later bought Colonel Bob's Hobby shop on
Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles. Ray just passed away a couple of years
ago. Great folks! Enough reminiscing; I'll be told to watch
it!<G>
<p>Bill Glaze
<p>Bill Glaze
<p>Del Rykert wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> <b><font size=-1>Bill.</font></b> <b><font size=-1>
You sure brought back some memories for me. My first successful R/C flights
were at the BIRDS (Beginners in Radio Drones) in the 70's.</font></b> <b><font size=-1>
Del K. Rykert</font></b>
<br><b><font size=-1> AMA - 8928</font></b>
<br><b><font size=-1> NSRCA - 473</font></b>
<br><b><font size=-1> Kb2joi - General</font></b>
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<a href="mailto:billglaze@triad.rr.com" title="billglaze@triad.rr.com">Bill
Glaze</a></div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 13, 2003
2:57 PM</div>
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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,</span><span
class=750443321-12022003>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.</span><span
class=750443321-12022003>Tom
Weedon</span><span
class=750443321-12022003>WA8WAA</font></font></font></span>
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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>
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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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<a href="mailto:vanputte@nuc.net" title="vanputte@nuc.net">Ron Van Putte</a></div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 10, 2003 8:37
PM</div>
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JOddino wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hey all you old guys, do you want to buy some Geizendanner (sp?) pots?</pre>
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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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