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| Date: | Monday May 1st ,2000 | ||||||
| Time: | 7:30pm | ||||||
| Place: | RCAF Wing 404/Rotary Adult Center |
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Start Time ... 7.30 p.m May 1st , 2000 MEETING Our May club meeting is going to be a double header, as
two of our members have offered to share there experiences and will be showing us how they fly remote control airplanes. Beginning from the very early years
of tube radio's, to, modern new multi channel digital technology.
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Flying
Radio Controlled Aircraft
Hugh started flying model airplanes in 1954, and moved to radio control units in 1970, and into gliders four years later. As an owner of a hardware retail business, in
Plattsville, Hue also sold plane kits, motors, and remote controls along with everything else normally found in a rural hardware store. His love of the hobby included some test flying for a company developing new radio equipment. His interest as a "Fun Flyer" has kept him busy in the hobby even up to today. Hue will be showing us some vintage control units and the changes that has brought us to the modern control units. 
Tedd started at a very young age as a pilot. In 1968, at the age of 8, he received for Christmas, a "U-Control"
Testors/McKoy "ready to fly" P-51 Mustang, and yes, he managed to fly it in a blazing snowstorm. Tedd's first radio control aircraft was a kit from Goldburg called the Jr. Falcon, a 2 channel radio, rudder and elevator only, powered by an .049 engine. Tedd quickly changed the motor to twice the size, (not recommended at that time). He flew it for two years until a crash landing with a 4" steel goal post at the Waterloo Oxford
DSS. The post survived the crash. Some time later, Tedd mounted a video camera in yet another kit called a Kadet Sr. and took some aerial photo's. He will be bring this airplane to our meeting.