Malibu ??

[David Harmon]

Jeeeze Tom....you had the expensive good one. I still have 2 complete
Magic Carpet/Magic Wand
rigs with the MK III escapements I think they were.
I'll have you know that I made 2 flights per day.....once!
Try flying a LW Cruiser Bipe with a clapped out Fox 35 with Magic Carpet
rx and compound
Bonner Varicomps with micro switches on a Bonner boxcar servo on the
elevator.
Now that was an exercise in energy management....what energy there was
that is.
I'll bet that thing weighed 15 pounds with the nylon covering and
butyrate dope.
I still have everything except the airframe....man, that was back in 58'
when I lived in Tulsa.
 
    Dave K6XYZ
 

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
On Behalf Of Thomas C. Weedon
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:38 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: RE: Malibu ??


Bill,
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.
Tom Weedon
WA8WAA

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org
[mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Bill Glaze
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:14 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Malibu ??


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  <mailto:vanputte at nuc.net> 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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