> you ain't old enough to have used a Kraft, are > you??? > Jim isn't, but I am. I got a Kraft on 50 Mhz when they first came out with 'em. Boy was that cool. By that time, I had been through hard-tube superregens, gas-tube rcvrs, compound DeBolt actuators (right, then left, then up elevator -- so with three pushes of the button, you could do a loop), galloping ghost, and a lot of other schemes that seem pretty crude today. My Kraft radio was billed as "fully proportional," which meant that you had positional control on all channels -- the big step up from reeds.
Later, I had an American Eagle, the plane that someone mentioned on here. It was basically an Olympic 99 wing on a fuse with a flying stab. It was a mid-wing rather than the rubber-band high-wing Oly configuration. The wing rods (3/16" music wire) went through the fuse. I think I flew it in the SOAR Nats one year, with indifferent results. My best Nats result was a 2nd in scale, with an ASW-17 that hardly resembled the real thing. Later, its wings folded on a hi-start. This led to dirt in one of my servo pots, so I opened up the servo case and sprayed some pot-cleaner into the offending component. It dissolved the entire servo case, which crumbled to dust in my hand. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
