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<DIV><STRONG>Bill.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG> I sure enjoyed your memories. If it wasn't for
the kindness and support of a couple in the BIRDS club in So. Calif. I may have
never stayed in the hobby. I also remember the trials of using Orbit/Micro
radios and taking them often to Hal Debolt on Harlem to try to fix it again.
What we used to have to work with and we trusted our hard work to that
technology. Whew.!!!</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG> Del</STRONG></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> Monday, February 24, 2003 6:40
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Malibu ??</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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:
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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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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
2:57 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Malibu
??</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,</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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<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></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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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>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Malibu
??</DIV>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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