[NSRCA-discussion] 4.8 volt Vs 6.0 volt -now nostalgia

[Earl Haury]

I flew escapements in the 50's (the price of reed stuff drove me away). 
While campaigning an A/FX Hemi Dodge drag car at the AHRA Nats in Gary IN 
around 1964 I watched as someone demonstrated aerobatic R/C flight during 
intermission. I've never know who it was - but I recall the airplane being 
low wing and actually doing AXIAL ROLLS! That left an impression that, after 
drag racing and trap shooting, surfaced with getting back into R/C in 1972 - 
my "trainer" was a Joe Bridi Kaos so that I could do rolls. Fortunately, I 
missed the relay / travel stop actuators and flew the thing with a Heathkit 
8ch radio and KPS12 equiv servos - amazing how much better I found the 
Proline / KPS15 system when I started competing in '74 with a Norm Page Mach 
1. Been hooked ever since and still waiting for servo pots to go away.

Earl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J.Oddino" <joddino at socal.rr.com>
To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 4.8 volt Vs 6.0 volt


>I don't see how anyone can call me old.  I've been 29 for as long as I can
> remember.  I'm 29 to the 1.274 power now and since I got my new knees I
> really feel young.  I went to the gym this week (four weeks after surgery)
> and did 1.6 miles in half an hour on the treadmill and made 65 free throws
> in a row.  Wait til I get my hook shot back.  None of these young guys 
> have
> hook shots so they don't know what to do when they get the ball under the
> hoop.  The usual result is a blocked shot.
>
> I hate to admit this, but I remember when servos didn't have numbers.  In
> fact I remember when model airplane servos weren't really servos.  They 
> were
> actuators with limit switches and neutralizing switches and driven by 
> relays
> in the receiver.  Then Bonner/Elliott put transistors in the "servo" to 
> get
> rid of the relays in the receiver.  I'm not sure who gets the credit for
> having the first commercially available proportional servos but I remember
> giving up building my own and buying some Space Control servos in 1961.
> What is most interesting is the fact modern servos work basically the same
> as the so called "digital servos" introduced by Mathes and Spreng in about
> 1963 in their Digicon system.  I think this was before Bob Richards was
> born.
>
> Jim O
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jerry Budd" <jerry at buddengineering.com>
> To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 4.8 volt Vs 6.0 volt
>
>
>> >OK.  That settles it.  Jim Oddino is just as old as me and I expect
>> >he will be offended that you call people our age old.  He lives out
>> >there on the left coast and he will probably find you, wherever you
>> >hide, and punish you.  Right Jim?
>>
>> Yeah, but he's [Bionic] and likely to last forever.  Besides, he
>> shoots free throws better than I do.
>>
>> >  > Sheesh!  Single digit servo numbers?  How <retro>.
>> >
>> >Single digit servo numbers?  12 is a single digit?  What public
>> >school did you graduate from, sonny?
>>
>> Umm, umm (too embarassed to think of a comeback...!).
>>
>> >  > Next you're going to tell us how CA bottles used to be sealed with
>> >>  wax!
>> >
>> >CA?  What's that?  The only things I can remember that were sealed
>> >with wax were the receiver IF transformers and the little bottles of
>> >sweet water you got from the grocery store.
>>
>> Don't you use wax to hold your false teeth in place?  ;-)
>>
>> Jerry
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