[NSRCA-discussion] Old Farts club

[Ron Van Putte]

It's hard to believe that Jon is that old!  I remember going to Don's  
house when Jon was a teenager.  Boy that makes me OLD!

I met all the guys Jon mentioned, plus a few more, like Hal Parenti,  
who used to duke it out with Don at contests in Indiana and Ohio and  
later on went into R/C Scale and beat everybody because he could  
outfly them all.  Ed Peck, Phil Kraft, Ed Kazmirski, Bill Northrop,  
Joe Bridi, Dick Penrod, Tony Bonetti, Cliff Weirick also spring to mind.

Ron Van Putte

On Aug 20, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Jon Lowe wrote:

> Well, thanks for the compliment.  I was born at a VERY young age in
> 1950!  I must have built the Aristocrat when I was 16 or so.  I also
> built and flew a modified Taurus (whose WASN'T modified?!), a deBolt
> Jenny and Peashooter, a Kraft Flea Fli, and many other airplanes whose
> names I don't remember.  I even flew a little Formula 1 racing, back
> when it was still called Goodyear!  I was lucky enough to meet and
> know, thru my Dad, Norm Page, Hal deBolt, Ed and Louise Izzo, Jimmy
> Grier, Doc Edwards, Lou Penrod, Jack Port (Controlaire), John Maloney
> (World Engines), Jim Kirkland, Jim Whitley, Don(?) Coleman, Doc  
> Brooke,
> Jersey Jim Martin, and many others whose names might come to me  
> after I
> write this.   I can remember Frank Noll Jr. when he was a younger kid
> than I was, because I flew with his Dad!  Sadly, many of those people
> are no longer with us.  I remember Dave and Sally Brown and their two
> kids at contests.  Sally looked about 15, and she would get carded
> everytime we went someplace for dinner.  I wouldn't, and I was only 17
> or so!  Dave wore a hat at contests made out of Strohs beer cans, and
> the more beers he drank between rounds, the better he flew.  How times
> change!  I remember being at the Toledo show one year, and servo
> amplifiers with integrated circuits were the latest thing; I remember
> one of the women at dinner looking confused and asking if an  
> integrated
> circuit meant it was black and white!
>
> How about these company names: Space Control, Bonner, EK Logitrol,  
> F&M,
> Orbit, Micro Avionics, Kraft, Citizenship, Proline, World Engines,  
> Indy
> RC, MinX, Controlaire, Royal, Heathkit?  And who can forget the
> Digitrio homebuilt proportional system, and later the Digiquad? I  
> built
> a Digiquad system and made my own transmitter raw PC board from
> scratch, laying out the lands and etching them, and then drilling the
> board for the components.  Because I didn't have a lot of money, I
> desoldered a lot of components from older systems and reused them in
> the Digiquad, and it worked the first time I turned it on!  But for
> some reason, I never flew it.  The first proportional system I owned
> was an F&M, that had crash damage, and used Bonner metal case servos.
> I rebuilt the servos using old Bonner Transmite parts my Dad had left
> over from the reed days.  The receiver was bigger than todays  
> receivers
> and all of the servos lumped together!  It had two main circuit  
> borads,
> and it was sent back to the factory so many times for upgrades to
> prevent glitching that it had 5 or 6 daughter boards grafted on it to
> make it work right.
>
> BTW, there is an article in the back of the latest Model Airplane News
> on Clarence Lee, the engine guru.  He has a line in there about the  
> old
> K&B Torpedo .45, something like "It was an engine that could break in
> and and be worn out on the same flight".  Absolutely true!  He went on
> to design the Lee, then Veco .45.  My Dad got one, and it was so tight
> (lapped engine), that after a couple of gallons of fuel went thru it,
> it still wasn't breaking in.  He mixed some jewelers rouge with oil,
> and fed it to the engine while it was running.  That finally broke it
> in, and it ran great after that.
>
> I better stop now before I sound even older than I am!
>
> Jon Lowe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: White, Chris <chris at ssd.fsi.com>
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> Sent: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 8:47 am
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> Jon confirmed and Yes, that’s what I was trying to remember…..thanks
> Ron, for clearing that up.  Bill Knost always made the claim in those
> days of contest flying he was building one airplane a week to keep up
> with the attrition rate.  He built a few Aristocats.  (Can’t believe I
> forgot the name must have been a Disney momentJ)  From the pic’s I’ve
> seen of Jon,  I didn’t think he would have been old enough to have
> flown class II….:)
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> Chris
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> In a message dated 8/18/2007 9:53:03 AM Central Daylight Time,
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> The Stormer and Flat Top Stormer were Doug Spreng designs.  The Bud
> Atkinson design I remember doing axial rolls in Class II was the
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> The Aristocrat was it!  Following advice of others, I elimimated one
> rib bay on each wing, and it flew even better.
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