Your first R/C plane?

[Jonathan Ott]

Let's get a thread going of us and our FIRST R/C plane.

I'll start it off with this shot. The year was 1982; the plane is a Sig Kadet Jr.; The engine was a plain bushing O.S. Max .25; Radio was a Circus IV from Circus Hobbies in Las Vegas.

I was 12 years old, and a new member of the SEMO R/C Flyers in Sikeston, MO.

Jon

[N726AC]

Andrews H-Ray, OS 30 and Kraft Series 79 radio. Sorry, no pics.

[exeter_acres]

Sig LT-40

[MikeC3D]

H9 Ultra Stick 60 w/ Saito 100, Futaba T6XA......actually still have the radio for the sim.
Grew up with dad flying/building CL stuff, made all of my own kites from balsa and cloth...

[coptered]

Thunder Tiger Trainer 40 with Thunder Tiger gp-42 engine and airtronics 4 channel radio.

[rcpilot82]

Hmm, I was just a little kid, Sig, Kadet seniorita (I built myself), old OSmax FP, futaba 4ch am radio with the gold case and G style servo connectors. My grandfather helped me get into the hobby (I still miss him). good memories.

[MODE 1]

I had a Chinese built trainer cant remember the name but it was 36" span using an OS FP15 run from a Multiplex 4 channel radio bought in Saudi Arabia. Flew like a pylon racer and crashed within seconds of take off. Had to make my own fuel cuz you couldn't buy glow fuel out there. Was banned from several pharmacies for purchasing too much castor oil....they didn't believe what I wanted it for.

[ericb]

Aircore 40 trainer with tower .40 size engine. I don't remember what the radio was anymore.

[Rocky McCarter]

Telemaster with os 60 and Futaba gold box tx

[loadtoad1a7]

I had a scratch built trainer when i was 8 that my dad got me I cant even remember what all it had in it.

[Toro]

1980 Hobbyshack spirit of 76 foam glider. followed by marks models wanderer.

First power plane...

Carl Goldberg ranger 42 foamie powered by cox .09 on the front.

[Ran D. St. Clair]

I'm so old I can hardly remember. I think it was a small glider, like a bird of Time junior. Balsa sticks and silkspan. It had a cox .020 with the integral fuel tank on a power pod above the wing. Screaming flat out it would barely climb. The radio was a Galloping Ghost, meaning the elevator and rudder twitched back and forth with a little more time spent on one side or the other. The transmitter was a bare aluminum box with a couple of knobs on the front, I don't remember who made it. I didn't so much fly it as make gentle suggestions about which direction it might want to turn next. Given that the engine would rarely hold a needle setting it would often sag or burble the whole flight and cruise around at 4 ft. or less, over the pits, around the cars. Who am I kidding, there were no pits back then, just cars in a field with a mowed runway if somebody brought a lawn mower. I spent hours and hours starting that engine and most flights were about 10 seconds. A really good one was a full minute. Yes, good times...

[Scott Gerber]

1974, scratch built a 2 channel glider in a high school aeronautics class. Not knowing a thing about flying r/c, it didn't last past a couple flights but it was my first. I've spent a small fortune since....



Scott

[DR10044]

The year was 1980 with a Goldberg Eagle 63, running on a KB 40 with a gold top 5 channel Futaba. 2nd plane was a Great Planes Super Sportster 40, running on an OS 45 or 46 abc with tuned pipe. My 1st gasser was a scratch built 72 inch wing span bipe running on a Quadra 45. Not sure of the year, probably 84 or 85. Thought I was so cool! I thought that 18 X 6 prop was huge!

I remember my 1st ARF, it was one of the Indy RC Christian Eagle bipes. Old foam over wood cconstruction.

[epc2]

1989 , Goldberg Eaglet 50 with OS 25FP and Futaba Attack.

Recently got another Eaglet from Ebay and built it just for fun and to remember those good ol' days.

epc2.