My neighbor stopped in the other day, and offered to lend a few rolls of 8mm film to me his late wife took in the early 60`s.
Besides having my great grand parents, grandparents, dad, mother, and brother as a baby on them, one clip has my dad and our neighbor/friend flying control line in the winter of 1963.
The quality of the film is poor, but in it you can see my dad flying a yellow 54 inch span Sterling J-3 Cub powered by a Forster 29. And then our neighbor Lee Jerome flying his red Veco Brave powered by a OS Max 35.
Another neighbor who walked over to watch is filmed in a gray trench coat.
Finally my dad is seen flipping a 049 Firebaby while Lee is holding.
My dad still has this plane and engine, and I have the Jim Walker U-Reely seen with Lee's Brave on a shelf above my modeling bench.
While I mainly fly RC in our small club here on our family farm (dozen members), this film has gotten 3 of our members excited to try a change of pace and do a little circle time this season. I am ordering a set of Gieseke Bear plans from Ultra Hobby, and a partial Cobra laser kit from Brodak today. I still have not made up my mind as what to build. I have a OS 48 Surpass I could use with a carb conversion for the Cobra, but would pick up a new engine and pipe if I decide on the Bear.
Anyways, kind of excited to try my hand at control line after over 20 years again and show my son what it is all about..........take care........Chad