[NSRCA-discussion] Confessions

[Steven Maxwell]

I can't beat you on age but my first stick and tissue was from selling seeds
for Henry Field seeds door to door which was an effert when you live in the
country and your nearest nieghbor was 1/2 mile away think I was in the
second grade. Don't have a clue what it was.
 Steve Maxwell


On 8/16/07, Nat Penton <natpenton at centurytel.net> wrote:
>
>  I was into rubber power, five and dime scale kits -  stick and tissue,
> Duco cement. My grandad bought me a Brown Jr and I built a Berkeley Super
> Buccaneer, which only flew for 15 seconds because it was extremely nose
> heavy. Then a Goldberg Zipper with a Baby Cyc. This was in the 30s.
>
> I thought it was an unforgiveable sin to exercise any type of controll
> after launch.    nat
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net>
> *To:* NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:10 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Old farts????:)
>
>
> My transmitter was homemade and I still have it.  I also have the ECE
> receiver and the Bonner SN escapement (rubber-powered) that moved the
> rudder.   I left the Kitten in the basement of my Dayton, OH home for the
> kid whose father bought my house when I was transferred to Washington, DC.
> I wonder if it's still around.  Probably not.
>
> Ron Van Putte
>
>  On Aug 16, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Jay Marshall wrote:
>
>  That was the same time I flew my Kitten, at now where the Top Gun flies.
> Homemade radio and, of course, rubber band rudder escapement.
>
>
>
> *Jay **Marshall*
>
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Steve Maxwell
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