My first plane was a Midwest ESQUIRE that I built and my uncle I stalled the servos
Rx etc . I loved that plane and was so proud of it .
Rx etc . I loved that plane and was so proud of it .
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Hobbyzone Champ, but I suppose that doesn't really count.. My first larger scale RC was a mini Telemaster. Flew like a dream in just about any conditions. -
Andrews Big H-Ray with an Enya 45. Nowadays I have nothing but 1/8 and 1/10 scale tron spewers.Warbird Charlie
HSD Skyraider FlightLine OV-10 FMS 1400: P-40B, P-51, F4U, F6F, T-28, P-40E, Pitts, 1700 F4U & F7F, FOX glider Freewing A-6, T-33, P-51 Dynam ME-262, Waco TF Giant P-47; ESM F7F-3 LX PBJ-1 EFL CZ T-28, C-150, 1500 P-51 & FW-190Comment
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My first succesful flights were with a Hobbyzone Champ. My first "larger" plane was an E-Flite SE5a. DocComment
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The H-ray ...wow , cool plane !
I had the Midwest ESQUIRE and a Sterling Mini Mombo . I look back and they were small ..they looked huge to me growing up .
When I couldn't go fly R/C I had a Jetco glider with a COX 010 & eye dropper for fuel. We would chase that thing all over the neighborhood .Comment
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My first "larger " plane was an FMS Dragonfly, which by the way, is a great sport plane overall, which I soloed after graduating from the Hobbyzone Champ, which I could fly in my park.You might be able to fly it, but can you land it?Comment
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I built a Midwest AEROSTAR .40 for a friend and it was a great flying plane .
Great trainer and graduated to floats and skis as he move on to other low sing and warbird designsComment
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Airfield (FMS) SkyTrainer from Nitroplanes. Still have that one. It's a great plane.Comment
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Well, mine was the HobbyZone Super Cub, better known in our household as "Ol' Weed Wacker" for her penchant to go off the side of the road and into the weeds. I still have her and she's in great shape, hadn't flown for better than a year, but one of these days, I might take her up again.
I really stretched out with the Pandoras after the initial jitters wore off.
Grossman56Team Gross!Comment
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When I was a kid , a guy offered me a free Goldberg skylane ..I was stoaked!
I lived about 2 mile from his house .
I thought about riding my bike home and asking my mom to take me no back up the hill to fetch my new prize. Naaaa , I told the man I could hold it and I would just go slow . I held the plane in my righ hand and started on my short trip home.
I don't I ow what happened , I decided to lift the and over my head like it was flyi g ...and fly it did ...a half loop..sort of ..and into the road behind me ...smashed the fire wall smashed the left wing about four rib bays from the tip.. I got home with my mess of a 0lane and still have it to this day ..it has since been stripped of its silkspan and covered I'm monologue about 20 years ago. Its not pretty but I love it .Comment
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Top Flite Rascal, then a Falcon jr.
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Sig Kadet....Comment
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Sig Klipper, 1977.Comment
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GOLDBERG FALCON 56 in 1962, with a single channel cb radio, rubber powered escapement for rudder only with kick-up elevator, and quick blip throttle to idle. Still own the radio.Comment
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My solo was with the first plane I bought. A Lanyu Corsair. Didn't know anything about the hobby, just knew I liked war birds and wanted to fly one. Needles to say it didn't end well with the Corsair Lol
Backtracked to a trainer plane THEN went into warbirds and eventually rebuilt the original Corsair and flew it. What I first thought was a piece of sh"" turned out to be a really nice flying plane:D
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A Cox .049 control line Stuka....umm, about 48 years ago??? yikes.Lon
EFlite F-16 80mm, EFite DRACO, EFlite Night Radian, E-Flite P51 1.5m
Freewing A-10 80mm, F-86 80mm, F-15 90mm, F-16 90mm. Avanti. FMS DHC-2 Beaver, Fliteline P-38L ,HSD HME-262, HSD F86.Comment
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Freewing Pandora ........
HOLY CRAP Lon 48 .... LOL just kidding
BryanBut Crashing is LandingComment
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Hey, I forgot about control line. I had the Cox Spitfire and the PT 17 back in the sixties as well. Got the Spitfire for Christmas and my dad and I went to try and fly it. Needless to say, he tried first and it went up did dee up up and went down dee dee down down down!
So I never got a chance to fly it. The Pt 19 I got a few years later and did actually fly it successfully until one of the strings came undone during flight. Broke a prop and retired her as well. That would have been 1972.
Grossman56Team Gross!Comment
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I started out with a Bridi Trainer 40 with a K&B 40 then graduated to a Midwest Sweet Stik with an OS45FSRComment
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