Malibu ??

[Del Rykert]

Bill.
 
    I sure enjoyed your memories. If it wasn't for the kindness and support of a couple in the BIRDS club in So. Calif. I may have never stayed in the hobby. I also remember the trials of using Orbit/Micro radios and taking them often to Hal Debolt on Harlem to try to fix it again. What we used to have to work with and we trusted our hard work to that technology. Whew.!!!
 
        Del

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Glaze 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 6:40 AM
  Subject: Re: Malibu ??


  Having been (accidentally, I guess) in near the beginning, I feel privileged to have seen the evolution of what we now have.  A few visionaries (Bob Dunham, Howard Bonner, among others) saw what was on the horizon.  I just enjoyed the fruits of their work.  It still was great being associated with them, and being able to drop in at their places of business.  The industry  was small enough then that you were always a welcome break from business.  Lots of intermingling; Ray Downs wife, Edie, (for Edith) worked for Howard in his business on Jefferson Blvd in L.A.   She also did the best job of covering with nylon I ever saw.  She would cover an entire six foot Astro Hog wing with one piece of nylon, tip to tip, and never a wrinkle anywhere.  She covered all of Ray's airplanes.  Ray and Edie later bought Colonel Bob's Hobby shop on Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles.  Ray just passed away a couple of years ago.  Great folks!  Enough reminiscing; I'll be told to watch it!<G> 
  Bill Glaze 

  Bill Glaze 

  Del Rykert wrote: 

     Bill.     You sure brought back some memories for me. My first successful R/C flights were at the BIRDS (Beginners in Radio Drones) in the 70's.      Del K. Rykert 
         AMA - 8928 
         NSRCA - 473 
         Kb2joi - General   
      ----- Original Message -----
      From: Bill Glaze
      To: discussion at nsrca.org
      Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 2:57 PM
      Subject: Re: Malibu ??
       Tom: 
      Remember it well.  After the Orbit came along, flying was much as we see it today.  Dunham's stuff was among the first that worked reliably all the time.  (Well, most all of the time!<G>)  So, 8 flights on a Sunday wasn't too unusual, depending on how crowded the frequency was.  I went to 6 meters, (Old call sign was WA6BRZ) so there wasn't a problem with frequency. 
      Boy, did I love it!  Still is fun to reminisce, but the ranks of guys that were  active participants are thinning pretty fast. 
      Average contest attendance: 150 or so.  (I was a CD, and remember the figures.) 
      We used to have over 50 for the monthly club contest.  LARKS (Los Angeles Radio Kontrol Society) club had ~400-450 members.  If we didn't have over 200 for a monthly club meeting, we wondered what happened.  Keith Storey, Cliff Weirick Howard Bonner, Bill Deans, Bob Dunham, Johnny Brodbeck were members........ah, the good old days.  Saw them every Sunday at the field. 
      Anyhow, enough.  Probably too much for most of the guys.  I'll quit. 
      Bill Glaze 

      "Thomas C. Weedon" wrote: 

        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 WeedonWA8WAA 
          -----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 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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