All that was cutting edge for the day and was insanely expensive. The first RC flight I saw was "rudder" only. The transmitter sat on the ground, it's antenna was strung between 2 poles. The pilot tapped out commands with a pushbutton on a long cord. The airplane had a electro/mechanical device called "escapement". The "escapement " was powered by a rubber band. The transmitter and receiver had vacuum tubes (valves) with various batteries for the different voltages needed. All this was needed to just turn left or right. How far we have come!
67.5 volt batteries, Vacuum tube, tuning the radio before every flight. The first RC flight I seen was 60 years ago, The model had a 6 ft. wingspan, they took off flew five times around the field and landed, They then broke out the champagne and beer for the adults and soda pop for the kids. They then set up two control line circles and taught anyone who wanted to learn how to fly. That was also my first time fly model planes.
I'm a subscriber. I really enjoy your videos. Could you guys make a flying boat for an episode? Specifically the one on this cover.🙃 Pretty please. 😎👍✨🏆
hi Bruce...sure does bring back memories....had a big collection of magazines myself untill recently ...wife made me have a clear out !!! had a single channel macgregor set as my first radio ,long since gone, sold it when my first child came along ...still have my first proportional radio ,up in the attic, 27mghz gem 4 ...only ever got to fly with it once and a crash did a number on the reciever antenna ..never got around to replacing it as shortly after that, all the frequencies were switched to 35 mghz . with child number two on the way i could not afford to get a new set-up .... now i am retired and can afford to get back in the hobby and 2.4 is so cheap ,i'm in heaven ...
In June 1962 I was a wee baby of just 11 months. I do remember in 1967, or thereabouts, when I was 6, my father built an RC aeroplane. It nose-dived into the ground on its maiden flight. He had the skills to build one but had not given any thought to learning the skills necessary to fly it. Consequently his next RC build was a boat. ;)
thank you for the veiw back in time!! I bought my first r/c in 1978 and still have it! The manufacturer was KGL, an off shoot of Kraft radio and paid 200 dollars
This brings back memories of my first introduction to RC. I can clearly remember the joy of helping my dad build an RC boat and transmitter which involved holding a lot of wires while dad soldered and I still bare the scars. The transmitter had a single large push button which dependent on times pushed would turn the rudder left/right or back to centre. Good times indeed and these days it's me who wields the soldering iron. Oh yes, there was the leather boot lace around the flywheel to prime and 'eventually' start the glowplug engine..
Very cool Bruce. I couldn't imagine trying to fly with that set up. It really makes one appreciate what we have now. I have been really enjoying the retro stuff. Thanks.
Hi ya Bruce, I grew up on the Popular Mechanics mags...LOVED to see the new stuff they were coming out with. Not as old as you ...MAYBE (1958 Here ) but the reading and the designs-concepts were GREAT. I remember you could build just about EVERYTHING back in them days from Popular Mechanics. Brings back memories it does. Thanks. See you in the air. Wayne
Wow, thanks for the trip to the past! We were flying U-Control or what we called Ukies back then and drooling over the radio control gear. The big thing was when they came out with "proportional" R/C. My first proportional radio system was a Heathkit system. It was really a copy of the Kraft proportional system. Great memories, Bruce. Thank you!
I was two years old when that article came out. I found that so fascinating, thanks for sharing. My brothers started the RC craze as they were older than I. Having a Transmitter and receiver mentioned you had money,that stuff was not cheap. It was less reliable too back then. As you said,very susptable to damage,something you would give a child. You also had to know how to work on electronics. It wasn't plug and play like today. I remember the Reed style remote controls used on our slot cars. We had a nice track back in the day,that was really popular back when we were kids. The Nitro cars were set to run in a circle till they run out of gas,or line control as suggested. it was more fun watching them bounce all over the yard. I once traded a slot car for my first line control plane, I laugh now at my inexperience back then.
Great video, Bruce! I thought I'd died and gone to RC heaven in the early '70s when I bought my first 72MHz RC setup - a 4 channel Kraft aluminum box with YUUGE servos, an Rx 2/3 the size of a deck or cards and a large, heavy NiCd battery for the princely sum of $276 US (about $1500 in today's dollars) Flew that setup in an Oly II glider into the late '80s!
Wow that brings back memories. My first RC rig was a long antenna single channel setup. It used an escapement that was powered with a rubber band. Left was climbing, right was down. You had to have real skills back then. I wish I still had them, hehe!
wow brings back memories. I used to wait eagerly for the latest issue of "Radio Control Models and Electronics". There were some beautiful models featured.
Hi Bruce, yes I remember that type of RC gear! I started RC flying with a KKJunior 60 with single channel (IvyAeromodeller TX and an Otarion RX with an OBM miniservo to operate rudder only. I flew it many times in UK. Moved to Africa and started to use Orbit 10 RC gear in a Taurus. I now use FrSKY Taranis Plus with great success!!
I remember Popular Mechanics! Use to read them all the time in the Dentist office. I also remember them in the school library. Used to read them all the time during Study Hall. Ah the good ol' days.
I _love_ this stuff! In fact I have been reading up on those "antique" RC control systems quite a bit, but one thing I cannot find anywhere at all is anyone actually flying one of those old models! It would be awesome to actually see that old technology in action. It must be incredibly difficult to fly!
I hate to say it but I can remember reading that magazine. I use to subscribe to that. Back then I did free fight and control line. The radio's were huge. Electric motors new radio systems have revolutionize our hobby. I can't believe all the stuff we have today. Amazing
Nostalgic video Bruce. 👍. I learned to fly on push button single channel and then reed equipment for multi channel. I have had to explain so many times why I fly mode 1 and this is the first time that anyone else has said the same thing. More of the same please.
Yes please Bruce - that was brilliant top see. Amazing to see how much time and effort was invested in getting a model running compared to the almost disposable/consumables attitude now.
I started with transistors, but single button with a long aerial, antenna is the american name came later to the UK. The escapements had rubber band power and as you pressed the short for right and a short with another press for left rudder. Don't hold the button for long unless you want a spiral drive. You could cascade these escapements with long sequences to pass through one to the over. You had to wait as only a few channels and had to physical change the crystals, and yes ther were different ways to multiply up the frequency so could use others unless the same design. Yes model were very like my freeflight models, I am nearly 60 and so much has changed.
I remember reading PM at school library I loved it My 1st Radio a Futba I remember in 1978 you couldnt get forward / reverse servo in the TX you had to buy a diffrent servo if you wanted to reverse the control LOL
As Bruce commented, the mag is scanned and it is also available here in the internet archive, enjoy! archive.org/stream/PopularMechanics1962/Popular%20Mechanics-06-1962#page/n103/mode/2up
In early 70's remember using what we called the bang-bang system, 1 press for left rudder and 2 for right, also vague memories of mechanical (clockwork) mechanisms to give full up elevator to stall the plane and get it back to ground. Useful on a glider! We also used slow burning fuses that burnt through a rubber band that held the spring loaded elevator in a neutral position....such control? Remember the name but not how it worked, what was a superheterodyne system?
Wonderful flashback. Probably a quite useful perspective for the RTF generation of modellers who have easy access to cutting edge equipment, but cannot name the parts of an airplane properly, and have to google why you should land into the wind. More, please!
I started with a Control line, moved to single channel and them to a Galloping Ghost system it was similar to proportional but all mechanical and had 4 channels.
great video Bruce , i think you should pick your favorite model from the distant past and do a build using all the old school techniques , but maybe modern radio gear , although it would be good to see a reed setup working .
Nostalgia is a sweet feeling, isn't it? But use with caution though :) And today all these model aircrafts are called... drones... Great idea Bruce, more videos like this one :) It feels like NightFlyyer (Dave Herbert) youtube channel here! Have a great week
Back when this magazine came out...... You could Fly anything you wanted, whenever you wanted, HOWEVER you wanted! All you had to worry about was annoying the neighbors!! Is this Utopian World Society REALLY a step *forward???* SMH! 😩👎🍺
My first radios were futaba AM units. Never had a problem. Went to JR FM and occasionally would have a glitch. Went to spektrum and would have lockouts and other issues. Frsky came out and I am back to reliable control. Funny how sometimes tech takes a step backwards. I still have some of my House of Balsa models but sadly no longer have any of my Herr Engineering models.
Do you remember using the dial from a phone handset to send instructions? I've still got an old black flag Futaba and a Craft somewhere around here.... lol...
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I remember when I first read and saw schematics about a proportional radio controller that used two-transistor pwm generators... it seemed so sci-fi!
Weird @7:20 the L&M cigarettes I just bought a pack of them yesterday because I didn't feel like making some of my own. The cost $6.12 cents can't imagine what a pack cost back in the magazine days...
Lets see... I had a Metz 3 channel (non proportional) as my first radio. I recall a friend showing me his very first Futaba 1 channel proportional radio! (Norway cir. 1968ish). Ah yes... the "good old days" when the local chap who won the free flight contest with his glider, never got his glider back, it flew away! Other grand names I played with, Webra engines (mostly diesel), Jetex (only fun when the motor didn't come loose from it's bracket and take off) and "kits" were too expensive.... We trundled down to the local hobby shop, bought a set of drawings, a bundle of balsa and start building.
I still have my first one channel 27MHz Pixie RC TX/RX that cost $100 back then... and my first 4 channel proportional 75MHz Kraft radio that cost near $600 at the time.
Vibrating reeds! That is amazing. That would require so much more skill and precision to manufacture than today's solutions. I had no idea that existed.
I don't want to be a jerk, but this is absolutely untrue. It's *far* more difficult to manufacture the microchips that we use today than it was to make the reed systems. It's just that all the difficulty involved is hidden behind closed doors at the chip manufacturers. Once the chips are made, it's dead simple solder jobs, but it wouldn't be possible without those chips.
definitely not a jerk. I see your point and I did think about that. But I was specifically thinking about craftsmanship. Modern chip manufacture involves very little craftsmanship. A skilled pair of hands is useless at the nano scale. Yes it takes incredible design talent on CAD to layout a silicon wafer, but in the manufacture stage, there is no place for a skilled worker to balance or tune a transistor. No one etches circuits boards by hand anymore either. The old way took skill, and the new way is better because we have removed the variable of whether the person is skilled enough to get it right. For example, we still make modern vacuum tubes, and it is certainly more difficult and expensive than making modern microchips. I think of skill as painting a picture with a paintbrush, as opposed to using a photo printer, which produces objectively higher resolution results. Obviously I am leaving out the immense part where you build the photo printer in the first place. If you count the design and manufacture of all tools involved it is a very different story. Having said that, I may be wrong about my initial assumption. Maybe these reeds were just stamped out of a machine and no tuning was done. In that case I suppose the skill required would be fairly low.
Lol, The first radio I ever had was given to me was this beige futaba (that was the black of the that period , or so I'm told) contraption that was supposedly one of the first 4 channels and one of the servos was actually built into the receiver, which was about the size of a small quadracer itself. Apparently it cost about what a top condition 10 year old korean 4 cylinder secondhand car would cost when new. Was kind of outdated when I got it 20 something years later unfortunately. It's case was made from stamped sheetmetal with plastic sides and analog meter for battery strength
I remember....although I don't think of the "ol' days" too much. :) I wish the slant 6 engine in the Valiant was still produced though..........unkillable.
that old read radio was more dependable then my spectrum garbage lol poor jr so sad our hobby is slowly disapearing i love all your vidios may come visit you guys and your field
Both the old Popular Mechanics and Popular Science are great to browse through. Especially when they showed what the 21st century would look like. Well...WE ARE LIVING THEIR VISIONS NOW. (Kinda disappointing ain't it?)
Fun video! And I think the U-Control or line-controlled aircraft were also referred to as remote control, as opposed to free-flight, I guess. So perhaps the carrier deck landing with a line control unit can also be called R/C. Just an idea.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane Bruce, shame is it's made me feel like methuselah 😂BTW may be antiquated but where would today be without all the work done back then. Keep up the great work.
HaHaHaHa Right after that we had some cb band radios & if someone keyed a Mike too close to you, the plane would just spiral into the ground out of control... Lol
Yes please Bruce - that was brilliant top see. Amazing to see how much time and effort was invested in getting a model running compared to the almost disposable/consumables attitude now.
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All that was cutting edge for the day and was insanely expensive. The first RC flight I saw was "rudder" only. The transmitter sat on the ground, it's antenna was strung between 2 poles. The pilot tapped out commands with a pushbutton on a long cord. The airplane had a electro/mechanical device called "escapement". The "escapement " was powered by a rubber band. The transmitter and receiver had vacuum tubes (valves) with various batteries for the different voltages needed. All this was needed to just turn left or right. How far we have come!
67.5 volt batteries, Vacuum tube, tuning the radio before every flight.
The first RC flight I seen was 60 years ago, The model had a 6 ft. wingspan, they took off flew five times around the field and landed, They then broke out the champagne and beer for the adults and soda pop for the kids. They then set up two control line circles and taught anyone who wanted to learn how to fly. That was also my first time fly model planes.
Nice Bruce :) I really enjoyed the look back at tech in this episode! Keep up the great content and have a good day!
I'm a subscriber. I really enjoy your videos. Could you guys make a flying boat for an episode? Specifically the one on this cover.🙃 Pretty please. 😎👍✨🏆
I think its awesome having a look at all the old rc stuff.
hi Bruce...sure does bring back memories....had a big collection of magazines myself untill recently ...wife made me have a clear out !!! had a single channel macgregor set as my first radio ,long since gone, sold it when my first child came along ...still have my first proportional radio ,up in the attic, 27mghz gem 4 ...only ever got to fly with it once and a crash did a number on the reciever antenna ..never got around to replacing it as shortly after that, all the frequencies were switched to 35 mghz .
with child number two on the way i could not afford to get a new set-up ....
now i am retired and can afford to get back in the hobby and 2.4 is so cheap ,i'm in heaven ...
In June 1962 I was a wee baby of just 11 months. I do remember in 1967, or thereabouts, when I was 6, my father built an RC aeroplane. It nose-dived into the ground on its maiden flight. He had the skills to build one but had not given any thought to learning the skills necessary to fly it. Consequently his next RC build was a boat. ;)
I remember in the late 70's to have a Sanwa catalog, it still put a smile on my face and dream away when I'm thinking of it now.
what an amazing find Bruce. please post more of the past
thank you for the veiw back in time!! I bought my first r/c in 1978 and still have it! The manufacturer was KGL, an off shoot of Kraft radio and paid 200 dollars
This brings back memories of my first introduction to RC. I can clearly remember the joy of helping my dad build an RC boat and transmitter which involved holding a lot of wires while dad soldered and I still bare the scars. The transmitter had a single large push button which dependent on times pushed would turn the rudder left/right or back to centre. Good times indeed and these days it's me who wields the soldering iron. Oh yes, there was the leather boot lace around the flywheel to prime and 'eventually' start the glowplug engine..
Very cool Bruce. I couldn't imagine trying to fly with that set up. It really makes one appreciate what we have now. I have been really enjoying the retro stuff. Thanks.
That is an awesome in site to the past. Would love to see more videos of content like this. Thanks Bruce for all your hard work.
Hi ya Bruce, I grew up on the Popular Mechanics mags...LOVED to see the new stuff they were coming out with. Not as old as you ...MAYBE (1958 Here ) but the reading and the designs-concepts were GREAT. I remember you could build just about EVERYTHING back in them days from Popular Mechanics.
Brings back memories it does.
Thanks.
See you in the air.
Wayne
Wow, thanks for the trip to the past! We were flying U-Control or what we called Ukies back then and drooling over the radio control gear. The big thing was when they came out with "proportional" R/C. My first proportional radio system was a Heathkit system. It was really a copy of the Kraft proportional system. Great memories, Bruce. Thank you!
I was two years old when that article came out. I found that so fascinating, thanks for sharing. My brothers started the RC craze as they were older than I. Having a Transmitter and receiver mentioned you had money,that stuff was not cheap. It was less reliable too back then. As you said,very susptable to damage,something you would give a child. You also had to know how to work on electronics. It wasn't plug and play like today. I remember the Reed style remote controls used on our slot cars. We had a nice track back in the day,that was really popular back when we were kids. The Nitro cars were set to run in a circle till they run out of gas,or line control as suggested. it was more fun watching them bounce all over the yard. I once traded a slot car for my first line control plane, I laugh now at my inexperience back then.
Great video, Bruce!
I thought I'd died and gone to RC heaven in the early '70s when I bought my first 72MHz RC setup - a 4 channel Kraft aluminum box with YUUGE servos, an Rx 2/3 the size of a deck or cards and a large, heavy NiCd battery for the princely sum of $276 US (about $1500 in today's dollars) Flew that setup in an Oly II glider into the late '80s!
Wow that brings back memories. My first RC rig was a long antenna single channel setup. It used an escapement that was powered with a rubber band. Left was climbing, right was down. You had to have real skills back then. I wish I still had them, hehe!
wow brings back memories. I used to wait eagerly for the latest issue of "Radio Control Models and Electronics". There were some beautiful models featured.
You have to do more of these Bruce :D Love these
That's 2 years before I was born!!
Thanks for explaining the origins of mode 1. I never understood why it exists, but I knew how the switches operated back then.
Hi Bruce, yes I remember that type of RC gear! I started RC flying with a KKJunior 60 with single channel (IvyAeromodeller TX and an Otarion RX with an OBM miniservo to operate rudder only. I flew it many times in UK. Moved to Africa and started to use Orbit 10 RC gear in a Taurus. I now use FrSKY Taranis Plus with great success!!
In 1969, there was the Apollo moon landing. I wonder if Houston was using Mode 1?
Yes it was, with throttle on the *right* side:)
I remember Popular Mechanics! Use to read them all the time in the Dentist office. I also remember them in the school library. Used to read them all the time during Study Hall. Ah the good ol' days.
great look at the beginnings, more of this Bruce! make you appreciate current tech a lot more. :)
I _love_ this stuff! In fact I have been reading up on those "antique" RC control systems quite a bit, but one thing I cannot find anywhere at all is anyone actually flying one of those old models! It would be awesome to actually see that old technology in action. It must be incredibly difficult to fly!
I hate to say it but I can remember reading that magazine. I use to subscribe to that. Back then I did free fight and control line. The radio's were huge. Electric motors new radio systems have revolutionize our hobby. I can't believe all the stuff we have today. Amazing
Nostalgic video Bruce. 👍. I learned to fly on push button single channel and then reed equipment for multi channel. I have had to explain so many times why I fly mode 1 and this is the first time that anyone else has said the same thing. More of the same please.
Bruce, thanks for reminding me how old I am!!!
Very interesting Bruce. I used to have a copy of this very issue.
That was great Bruce! Thank you. :-)
Yes please Bruce - that was brilliant top see.
Amazing to see how much time and effort was invested in getting a model running compared to the almost disposable/consumables attitude now.
I still have some of those magazines, and remember that camp stovetop.
Very interesting, today I learnt the origins of Mode 1, thanks :)
*That audio modulation is crazy.
I love it - that was my day and I remember it when it was new.
Cheers
I started with transistors, but single button with a long aerial, antenna is the american name came later to the UK. The escapements had rubber band power and as you pressed the short for right and a short with another press for left rudder. Don't hold the button for long unless you want a spiral drive. You could cascade these escapements with long sequences to pass through one to the over. You had to wait as only a few channels and had to physical change the crystals, and yes ther were different ways to multiply up the frequency so could use others unless the same design. Yes model were very like my freeflight models, I am nearly 60 and so much has changed.
Love the old tech. Keep it coming.
Very cool idea. More please ...
"Bathing Beauties" haha. Great stuff. My first exposure to R/C was when Kraft was a big name. Still have some of that laying around.
Robert Lunsford
The Kraft factory was in my present home town, Vista, California (USA).
I remember reading PM at school library I loved it My 1st Radio a Futba I remember in 1978 you couldnt get forward / reverse servo in the TX you had to buy a diffrent servo if you wanted to reverse the control LOL
As Bruce commented, the mag is scanned and it is also available here in the internet archive, enjoy!
archive.org/stream/PopularMechanics1962/Popular%20Mechanics-06-1962#page/n103/mode/2up
Awesome, thanks for sharing the link!
In early 70's remember using what we called the bang-bang system, 1 press for left rudder and 2 for right, also vague memories of mechanical (clockwork) mechanisms to give full up elevator to stall the plane and get it back to ground. Useful on a glider! We also used slow burning fuses that burnt through a rubber band that held the spring loaded elevator in a neutral position....such control? Remember the name but not how it worked, what was a superheterodyne system?
Something I miss and wish I kept was all my old Dicksmith catalogues.
Great stuff, more please.
I like seeing this stuff. Nice video Bruce!
Wonderful flashback. Probably a quite useful perspective for the RTF generation of modellers who have easy access to cutting edge equipment, but cannot name the parts of an airplane properly, and have to google why you should land into the wind. More, please!
I started with a Control line, moved to single channel and them to a Galloping Ghost system it was similar to proportional but all mechanical and had 4 channels.
The White Heat V is in my PM DIY encyclopedias.
great video Bruce , i think you should pick your favorite model from the distant past and do a build using all the old school techniques , but maybe modern radio gear , although it would be good to see a reed setup working .
Nostalgia is a sweet feeling, isn't it? But use with caution though :)
And today all these model aircrafts are called... drones...
Great idea Bruce, more videos like this one :) It feels like NightFlyyer (Dave Herbert) youtube channel here!
Have a great week
ABMNS PRODUCTION it does doesn't it? lol
After dealing with the Feds for decades, it has bcome apparent that the unofficial FAA Motto is: "We're not happy till you're not happy!"
Back when this magazine came out......
You could Fly anything you wanted, whenever you wanted, HOWEVER you wanted! All you had to worry about was annoying the neighbors!!
Is this Utopian World Society REALLY a step *forward???* SMH! 😩👎🍺
My first radios were futaba AM units. Never had a problem. Went to JR FM and occasionally would have a glitch. Went to spektrum and would have lockouts and other issues. Frsky came out and I am back to reliable control. Funny how sometimes tech takes a step backwards. I still have some of my House of Balsa models but sadly no longer have any of my Herr Engineering models.
*"Can you please make a video of you making the Boat/Plane on the cover?"* 🚤🛩️
Thanks for the history lesson. I do hope there's no test, though haha. Keep these coming.
I still have the plans for my first rc model the mini Mambo and also the rubber band escapement that went with it Circa 1963
I Love contents like this. Keep it coming!
Do you remember using the dial from a phone handset to send instructions? I've still got an old black flag Futaba and a Craft somewhere around here.... lol...
I remember when I first read and saw schematics about a proportional radio controller that used two-transistor pwm generators... it seemed so sci-fi!
enjoyed the video Bruce
Weird @7:20 the L&M cigarettes I just bought a pack of them yesterday because I didn't feel like making some of my own. The cost $6.12 cents can't imagine what a pack cost back in the magazine days...
Lets see... I had a Metz 3 channel (non proportional) as my first radio. I recall a friend showing me his very first Futaba 1 channel proportional radio! (Norway cir. 1968ish). Ah yes... the "good old days" when the local chap who won the free flight contest with his glider, never got his glider back, it flew away!
Other grand names I played with, Webra engines (mostly diesel), Jetex (only fun when the motor didn't come loose from it's bracket and take off) and "kits" were too expensive.... We trundled down to the local hobby shop, bought a set of drawings, a bundle of balsa and start building.
I love those old mags.....
Pretty interisting. Didnt know that it was just switches on the rc remote.
Even I am to young to remember the gear from 1962 1st hand as I was only 7. Weren't most of the transmitters still valve powered back then? :)
keep turning those pages mate. That is a history. Better to have more than one copy.
Might be better as seperate channel.
I still have my first one channel 27MHz Pixie RC TX/RX that cost $100 back then... and my first 4 channel proportional 75MHz Kraft radio that cost near $600 at the time.
Vibrating reeds! That is amazing. That would require so much more skill and precision to manufacture than today's solutions. I had no idea that existed.
I don't want to be a jerk, but this is absolutely untrue. It's *far* more difficult to manufacture the microchips that we use today than it was to make the reed systems. It's just that all the difficulty involved is hidden behind closed doors at the chip manufacturers. Once the chips are made, it's dead simple solder jobs, but it wouldn't be possible without those chips.
definitely not a jerk. I see your point and I did think about that.
But I was specifically thinking about craftsmanship. Modern chip manufacture involves very little craftsmanship. A skilled pair of hands is useless at the nano scale. Yes it takes incredible design talent on CAD to layout a silicon wafer, but in the manufacture stage, there is no place for a skilled worker to balance or tune a transistor. No one etches circuits boards by hand anymore either. The old way took skill, and the new way is better because we have removed the variable of whether the person is skilled enough to get it right.
For example, we still make modern vacuum tubes, and it is certainly more difficult and expensive than making modern microchips.
I think of skill as painting a picture with a paintbrush, as opposed to using a photo printer, which produces objectively higher resolution results. Obviously I am leaving out the immense part where you build the photo printer in the first place. If you count the design and manufacture of all tools involved it is a very different story.
Having said that, I may be wrong about my initial assumption. Maybe these reeds were just stamped out of a machine and no tuning was done. In that case I suppose the skill required would be fairly low.
Lol, The first radio I ever had was given to me was this beige futaba (that was the black of the that period , or so I'm told) contraption that was supposedly one of the first 4 channels and one of the servos was actually built into the receiver, which was about the size of a small quadracer itself. Apparently it cost about what a top condition 10 year old korean 4 cylinder secondhand car would cost when new. Was kind of outdated when I got it 20 something years later unfortunately. It's case was made from stamped sheetmetal with plastic sides and analog meter for battery strength
I remember....although I don't think of the "ol' days" too much. :) I wish the slant 6 engine in the Valiant was still produced though..........unkillable.
Awesome video! I like it
that old read radio was more dependable then my spectrum garbage lol poor jr so sad our hobby is slowly disapearing i love all your vidios may come visit you guys and your field
Both the old Popular Mechanics and Popular Science are great to browse through. Especially when they showed what the 21st century would look like. Well...WE ARE LIVING THEIR VISIONS NOW. (Kinda disappointing ain't it?)
When I read that issue (and yes... I read it new) it's the last year I flew until last year. LOL
I love it!
At 1:52, control line was RC, Remote Control, back then. RC did not always mean radio control.
Fun video! And I think the U-Control or line-controlled aircraft were also referred to as remote control, as opposed to free-flight, I guess. So perhaps the carrier deck landing with a line control unit can also be called R/C. Just an idea.
Nice! the year i popped up
very interesting : )
Love the price on it. Some pre decimal goodness, 3/6, 3 shillings 6 pence. Get your RC goodness only 3 and a half bob!! ;-P
Thanks for the trip down memory lane Bruce, shame is it's made me feel like methuselah 😂BTW may be antiquated but where would today be without all the work done back then. Keep up the great work.
I had a friend who flew with one of these. Then moved to ham radios.
Hehehe that's awesome how technology changes
I seriously considered getting into RC around 1973, but even then things seemed too primitive and costly.
Just,, before I was born not by much good to see what was around in the good old times
bruce,
i was reading the caption on the 1/4 scale cub and it said it was a dual engine? hows that work or did i misread it.
Do you still have any of your old gear or models? We have some 50 year old models at our club and also some soviet made RC gear :)
i have same magazine from france Science et Vie with same topic
Bruce, what has happened to AilRon, I cannot find his videos any more??
Try this: ruclips.net/channel/UClKefSLayxA-FO2ZKX0e83g
And what will the hobby look like in another 50 years?
HaHaHaHa Right after that we had some cb band radios & if someone keyed a Mike too close to you, the plane would just spiral into the ground out of control... Lol
If you want to skip all the waffle and get to the point 8:16
Haha, 8:18
Popular Mechanics/Science still doesn't know shit and fucks up all the time but it's fun when you're 12 and don't know any better.
"...in the old days, when people were stupid." /Butthead
look in the miror
Yes please Bruce - that was brilliant top see.
Amazing to see how much time and effort was invested in getting a model running compared to the almost disposable/consumables attitude now.