[NSRCA-discussion] Old Farts club

[billglaze]

Yeah, Jon, a good friend of mine, Bill Williams, almost turned into a 
perennial winner of "rudder only" class, when he cascaded a throttle on his 
Bonner escapement.  He also rigged up a tailwheel brake that worked.  The 
airplane was a Mambo.  We always claimed that he had a whole closet full of 
them.
His modifications were protested at one of the NAT's, and they made him 
de-activate the tailwheel brake, and the throttle.
He won anyway, plus he won the radio at the banquet raffle.  I believe it 
was the contest at Glenview.  Throttle/brake or not, he was definitely 
superior.  He had the only airplane I had seen at the time, with which he 
could do a controllable 3 turn spin.  If it came out slightly off heading, 
at least he got some points for it, as opposed to his competition who could 
only watch and  wonder............."how does he do it?"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Lowe" <jonlowe at aol.com>
To: <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Old Farts club


> 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>
> To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> 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
>
> To: NSRCA Mailing List
>
> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> To: "NSRCA Mailing List"
> 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
>> To: NSRCA Mailing List
>>
>>> Have you flown RC for more than 30 years?? Have you ever looped
>>> and rolled an airplane with just rudder control? :-)
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> NSRCA-discussion mailing list
>> NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
>> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion
>>
> _______________________________________________
> NSRCA-discussion mailing list
> NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> NSRCA-discussion mailing list
> NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> NSRCA-discussion mailing list
> NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> AOL now offers free email to everyone.  Find out more about what's free
> from AOL at AOL.com.
> =0
> _______________________________________________
> NSRCA-discussion mailing list
> NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion