My first RC glider was an Ecktronics Nomad, a Ted Strader design, which used a Citizenship LT-3 receiver and a Bonner escapement, with a C&G Venus tube transmitter. Despite being rudder only, I managed to successfully slope soar it many times. This was around 1962.
My first RC vehicle was a relatively slow boat with a Babcock servo, and I ran it in the swimming pool a lot before installing the above mentioned radio gear in the Nomad. Because of this prior exercise, I experienced none of the directional confusion so commonly suffered by neophytes as they turn and begin flying toward themselves.
The transition to proportional control (JR Century 7 system) roughly two decades later was relatively smooth.
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