OT. Model aeroplane Amazing

[harryagain]

[Mr Pounder]

I used to have that hobby.

[John Rumm]

You want to see what the barking helicopter bods get up to :

[Mr Pounder]

elastic band. It was fun.

[Ian Jackson]

In message , Mr Pounder writes

It's obvious that all that twisting about must require unbelievable skill, but after a minute or two of it, it starts becoming rather boring. I much prefer to see aeroplanes flying like aeroplanes.

I never got as far as radio control (diverting into amateur radio and skiffle instead!), but I've seen those RC planes with a single channel radio, rubber driven escapement controlling rudder-only (straight, left, straight, right straight left etc etc), and it was amazing what a skilled pilot could do.

[John Rumm]

I stuck with boats - figured its harder to fall out of the water!

[Ian Jackson]

RC cars are even safer!

[The Natural Philosopher]

First video is not that impressive. I've seen better. Still bores me stiff.

No rolling circle, no proper hovering.

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can be done in a street or back garden.

I've seen people making em 'climb' walls..

[geoff]

In message , Ian Jackson writes

I think that the Indonesian authorities are thinking the exact same thought

[John Rumm]

[Davey]

There's a Blackbird there, too.

[The Natural Philosopher]

well, yes :-)

[Andrew Gabriel]

I wasn't part of it, but I did go to some of their shows. There was a guy there who flew 2-control line planes (which you fly in a circle whilst standing at the centre). What was particularly spectacular was that he could fly two of these at once, chasing each other and engaging in dog fights - apparently he was the only person in the world (at the time) who could do this. What made this all the more remarkable was that we was quite severely cripled and had some considerable difficulty walking (I would guess something like polio), and control line flying is not something you can do by standing still. He really drew the crowds at their public events.

I did a google search but I can't find any info. Searching on finding variations on "two 2-control line planes" just doesn't work, and this was all before the WWW started (a sort of "dark ages").

[Huge]

Err ...

used to fly these, many years ago. I once lost one when the lines broke at the handle and the trailing line provided just enough drag to make it fly in a straight line (control line models have built in rudder offset to make them try and fly out of the circle and keep the lines taut). It had some up elevator & climbed slowly out of sight, never to be seen again.

[Lobster]

The OP's was hovering at 4'29" though I think?

David

[brass monkey]

Yes, I remember doing a bit of that. We used to make what we called flying wings

and reckoned that virtually anything would fly if the engine was large enough. Always forgot to take gloves so got home with 1st & 2nd fingers in shreds from starting the damn things :)

2 in the middle certainly keeps the concentration going.

[Tim Lamb]

As with the two slope soarers my friend and I took to Box Hill in the late '50's.

There was also the tale of the scale Avro Lincoln Bomber I saw at the Handley Page / SMAE show going AWOL during a radio controlled flight.

regards

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[Nick Odell]

I never lost my non-RC gliders when I was flying them in the 60s. The tip-up tail was held in place by a rubber band with a piece of slow-burning fuse shoved through it. A few minutes into the flight and the tail would flip, bringing the glider into a controlled descent.

Nick

[Mr Pounder]

I recently thought about going back in to the hobby after 40 years and visited the local club. Things have not changed, the snobbery was still there. I may still have the Blackpool distance record for single channel. Radio failure as always.

[Mr Pounder]

You lost a control line model??!!!