[NSRCA-discussion] November Model Aviation

[John Pavlick]

Believe it or not I learned to fly with a control line airplane too (I'm 41). When I was a kid my Dad bought a Cox .049 Spitfire for me to fly when I was "old enough". I think he bought it when I was about a year old. One day, after my continuous nagging, he decided it was time to fly the little airplane. Of course he would need to fly it first, just to make sure it was OK. LOL Well, I never did get a chance to fly that airplane. Apparently my Dad flew a lot of free-flight when he was young but never had a control line plane. The first flight was, uh, interesting to say the least. He learned how to fly pretty quickly but according to him "it wasn't a good beginners airplane". He flew the Spitfire until it fell apart. Then we got a Cox PT-19 and the rest is history. By the time I was in second grade I could tear apart a Cox .049 with my eyes closed. Until I was able to work I couldn't really afford an R/C airplane so control-line was all I had. I
 remember seeing Cox control line planes at department stores all the time when I was young. Then they just vanished. Replaced by video games I guess. :(
 
John Pavlick
 
 
--- On Wed, 10/29/08, mike mueller <mups1953 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: mike mueller <mups1953 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] November Model Aviation
To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 12:41 PM






 Ahh good memories of my controline Jr Nobler at the Chicago forest preserves in the late 60's. What a blast! Mike

--- On Wed, 10/29/08, John Konneker <jlkonn at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: John Konneker <jlkonn at hotmail.com>
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] November Model Aviation
To: "Discussion List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 7:26 AM




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Noticed two things in this month's issue.
 
1- A great shot of our own Jeremy Chinn's "Kudzu" in the Nats photo section
 
2- The back cover ad from Horizon for a control line plane!  One of the ad's sales points
is "remember the days of control line in schoolyards".  I can remember in the late '50s when 
I was in grade school my Dad taking me up to my school's playground to teach me to 
fly.  He had been an active control line flyer when I was a really little guy...ignition...I still have
some of his engines, control handle, etc.  Anyway, I had absolutely no "feel" for it.  He would start it while
I was out in the center of the circle with the handle.  He would release the plane when I was ready and 
run as fast as he could for me to try to coach me.  He never made it... :-(  A few years later I flew at the 
Cox control line circle at Disneyland.  I think it was 1960.  There is some 8mm movie film my Dad took of
me that I watched at my mother's about two years ago or so when she passed away.  The ad is right...
It does bring back memories...
JLK
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