Bolly and the WRAM Show

[Tony Stillman]

Eric:

Yes, you are right!  However, the RC City servo mounts are something I have
always kept in stock!  Planes Plus purchased the R/C City accessory line
when they went out of business, and on of the best items was the servo
mounts.  However, they also have the small and large pipe mounts, milled
glass fiber and other items as well.

As you say, if you look around, you will find "cross-over" items from
several different suppliers!

See ya at Toledo and the Southeastern Modelers Show!

Tony Stillman
Radio South
3702 N. Pace Blvd.
Pensacola, FL 32505
1-800-962-7802
www.radiosouthrc.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henderson,Eric" <Eric.Henderson at gartner.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:38 PM
Subject: Bolly and the WRAM Show


It's funny that every year I go to this or any other show I hear the same
remark. "There's nothing really there for what I do". I hear this from
Pattern folks, Glider guiders and the like. It is true that we often have to
search the hobby industry for items that we want. (We are lucky to have a
few suppliers who specialize in our sport. Radio South and Central Hobbies
being two good examples, but they are not at very many, and in the case of
Central, any shows).
In reality there is often more below the surface if you dig deep enough. I
needed a 7/8" CF wing tube but did not expect to find one. During a
conversation with Desert Aircraft about the DA50 that I was going to run on
my Double Vision, I noticed some familiar packaging. Of course they had some
Bolly props including the new 16 x 13W. What I also found was some FAI wide
Bolly landing gear. I then said, "Bet you don't have a CF tube for a pattern
wing and stab?". Lost that bet because they had a CF tube standing there in
the corner. I had never thought of DA as a source of pattern stuff. The
lesson there was to look closer during the tour of the show.
A second thing happened to me in a similar vein. The production Double
Vision was on display at the planesplus booth run by Don and Carla Kanak. It
was fun going over it and looking at the differences between the prototype
and the final version. I was pleased to see a short belly pan that would
allow a header and "quiet" can etc. The servo plate was pre-installed for
the rudder servo etc. approx where I had guessed was going to be. Then I
noticed some packaging that said RC City. A name from the past! Right there
in front of me was a box of those excellent black servo-side-mount brackets
that I used to always use. I had given up on finding a suitable replacement.
Turns out that they have the molds and they make them. I grabbed quite few.
Lesson again was that there is stuff in unlikely places if only you look
hard enough.

Regards,

Eric.

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