Malibu ??

[Bill Glaze]

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!
I could go on and on, but don't want to put you young 'uns to sleep.

Bill Glaze

JOddino wrote:

> 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. 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
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Ron Van Putte
>      To: discussion at nsrca.org
>      Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 8:37 PM
>      Subject: Re: Malibu ??
>
>
>      JOddino wrote:
>
>     > Hey all you old guys, do you want to buy some Geizendanner
>     > (sp?) pots?
>     >
>      I think I'm going to pretend that I don't know what you're
>      talking about.
>      BTW, I think it's Giezendanner.  Geez!  That seems like
>      forever ago that we fiddled with pot replacement every 50
>      flights or so.  The wuss pilots these days wouldn't put up
>      with that.
>
>      Ron Van Putte
>
>
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