[NSRCA-discussion] website back up

[Bill Glaze]

Ed:
This man contacted me several years ago, (~ 2005, I believe) and said that he was going to start an R/C Museum, and we spoke for quite a while.  He had been told about me by Zel Ritchie, who had (as far as I know) the first truly proportional radio.  Zel had asked me to try it out for him ~1959 or thereabouts, so I installed it in a "retired" Astro Hog I had been using for competition.  I first flew it in the parking lot of the Los Angeles Kings, (across from Hollywood Park Race Track) in Inglewood, Calif., and I was so impressed that later in the week,  I flew it again, which I did in the parking lot of Vessel's Race Track (for Quarter Horse Racing) in Orange County.
That was all it took for me to realize "This is the way it should be done."  I had been flying nothing but 8 or 10 channel Orbit reed/relay radios.  (I was sponsored by Bob Dunham, owner of Orbit.)  If only Zel had enough venture capital, this setup would have taken the R/C world by storm, at least that's the way I see it.  To many of us, proportional meant Galloping Ghost" (ugh) systems.  Those things, (thankfully) never caught hold out on the Left Coast.

Bill Glaze
P.S. the first paragraph above is fact; the second is my opinion, except for the sponsorship, which is a fact.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ed Alt 
  To: General pattern discussion 
  Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 1:04 PM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up


  As long as we're taking a trip down RC memory lane, this may be of interest:

  http://www.rchalloffame.org/

  Ed


  -----Original Message----- 
  From: ehaury 
  Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 12:49 PM 
  To: General pattern discussion 
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up 

  "Escapement"  comes from the mechanical clock mechanism and is a device that 
  allows energy to "escape" from a spring in a regulated incremental manner. 
  Our escapements did the same thing - applying the energy escape from the 
  wound rubber band to a lever that moved the control surface.

  Earl

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Ron Van Putte" <vanputte at cox.net>
  To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
  Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 10:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up


  > Sorry, the origin of the term escapement was before my time.  Geez!   I 
  > haven't been able to say anything like that for a while.
  >
  > Ron VP
  >
  > On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:21 AM, rcmaster199 at aol.com wrote:
  >
  >> Ha, ha, ha...very funny Ron.
  >>
  >> Are you sure you didn't stick the big key in the back of the TX to  wind 
  >> that spring up??
  >>
  >> Hey, BTW, where did the term "escapement" come from?
  >>
  >>
  >> -----Original Message-----
  >> From: Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net>
  >> To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
  >> Sent: Sat, Dec 4, 2010 11:16 am
  >> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up
  >>
  >>
  >>
  >>
  >> Hey! We didn't have to "wind up the radio". We had to wind up the
  >> escapement rubber band. Big difference!
  >>
  >> Ron VP
  >>
  >> On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Bob Richards wrote:
  >>
  >> > Showing my age? Yeah, I wrote Fortran programs in school - on punch
  >> > cards. My first personal computer was a TRS80 MIII that I paid
  >> > $1000 for, 16k memory and cassette tape program storage. I worked
  >> > on point-of-sale systems ("POS" - LOL) that had 32k core memory. I
  >> > still have a cash register board somewhere with core memory on it.
  >> >
  >> > Well, at least I never flew a plane with a radio that required
  >> > winding up the radio. :-)
  >> >
  >> > Bob R.
  >> >
  >> > --- On Sat, 12/4/10, Bob Kane <getterflash at yahoo.com> wrote:
  >> >
  >> > You are showing your age. You could see the "bits".
  >> >
  >> > Bob Kane
  >> > getterflash at yahoo.com
  >> >
  >> > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Bob Richards <bob at toprudder.com> wrote:
  >> >
  >> > Core memory, I bet!
  >> >
  >> >
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