Malibu ??

[Thomas C. Weedon]

Naw, with a compound escapement, you push once and you get right, push twice
and you get left, push three times very carefully and you get engine (the
opposite throttle position with an SN escapement). I didn't have up or down,
so you trimmed the plane to climb and spiraled the plane to get down and do
it again. Later, when Ace first came out with their receiver with one gas
tube and 2 transistors, I was able to fly a more lively small plane with a
Fox .09. Then it became fun. I had to fly in tall weeds to reduce the chance
of damaging the plane on landing, but I could get that rudder only plane to
loop, spin, and ever a barrel roll on occasion. A good friend of mine that
flew with me 50 years ago has gotten back into Vintage Models. I belive Bob
Noll is the president of that organization. Anyway, my friend let me fly his
single channel Rudder Bug this summer and it was fun. I could actually land
the damn thing! What a suprise! Later that day I flew my pattern ship and
had to agree, the Good Old Days were not that Good!
Tom W.

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[mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of John Gayer
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:43 AM
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Subject: Re: Malibu ??


 From what I remember, you push the button once, the plane went right.
release, and press it agin, the plane went left.  Usually, however, the
next time you tried it, the escapment hung up and you had a spiral dive
to the ground.....
John Gayer
NSRCA 632

RC Steve Sterling wrote:
> There was just the one control, rudder. Oh, well ... and it only went
> one direction!!

>


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