[NSRCA-discussion] Old Farts club

[Jon Lowe]

Yeah, those eveolved in the few years before AMA went to the A,B,C 
classes into:

Class 1:  Rudder/Throttle only
Class 2:  Rudder/elevator/throttle
Class 3:  Full house

Class 1 airplanes evolved in ridiculous things that could only fly in a 
straight line at mid throttle.  They had so much up thrust that full 
throttle would loop them, and if rudder was applied, they would do 
consequetive barrel rolls.  I remember watching one try to fly in high 
winds that could not go upwind because it needed throttle, but would 
loop everytime the pilot touched it!  They had rudders on them that put 
the ones on modern day pattern ships to shame.  Used proportional gear 
also!

Class 2  had some good flying airplanes, including one that would do a 
nice axial roll with just full rudder.   I had one (can't remember the 
name of it) and I was going to go to contests with it, but then came 
the A,B,C system, and I built one of my Dad's prototype Phoenix 5s for 
that.  Then came college, girls, and cars, and a 35 year layoff from 
the hobby.  First time I saw a modern pattern plane, I went "holy s--t, 
what happened?".


Jon Lowe


-----Original Message-----
From: billglaze <billglaze at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 1:21 pm
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Old Farts club



Class 1, single channel. rudder only.

Class 2, single channel, everything you could get on it, rudder, 
elevator, motor.

Class 3, Multi channel.  (Period.)


----- Original Message -----

From: Bob Richards

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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 6:52 AM

Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Old Farts club




Remember when the different pattern classes were based on how many 
channels were used?

 

Bob R.



Ed Alt <ed_alt at hotmail.com> wrote:

Yep. A friend had a Schoolboy. Loops, rolls, wingovers, Cuban 8's, 
split S
and Immelmans were all possible.

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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] More flexibility in 
classselection?-->Personaldilemma, what to do next season

> Yes! I forget the name of the aircraft, but it was a high wing, low
> stab taildragger with A LOT of upthrust on the engine. It was pretty
> amazing what you could do with just the rudder.
>
> Oh.. and I'm only 39 years old, but I've been flying for 35 years.
>
> -Doug
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Richards
> Date: Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:38 pm
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] More flexibility in class
> selection?-->Personal dilemma, what to do next season
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>
>> Have you flown RC for more than 30 years?? Have you ever looped
>> and rolled an airplane with just rudder control? :-)
>>
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