I bid on a Oct/Nov 1960 Flying Models magazine on the bay because of a subtitle.It Read:"Voltroliner" Electric motor powered controlliner.By Paul Del Gatto.It kinda got me curious how they did it 50+ years ago.If I win it I'll post the findings.Trax

Thanx Jason,I just got some new batteries and I have been discharging them I'll be discharging them a bunch more all week in Muncie.When I'm not tending the pull test machine I'm gonna get me some flying lessons
                          Trax

I think the guy had enough common sense that he knew the plane would not get off the ground with the batteries on board.   Just like the Cox electric power plane I got one year for a present. 

Sometime during the eighties, when Bob was editor of FM I convinced him to let me do a C/L test build on a Midwest electric 'HOTS". This was an RC 'HotRod' of the day, powered by a Speed 400 motor. It did have a somewhat C/L look to it, built with flaps and elevator. It took 7 onboard sub C batteries to get it off the ground. As I recall I flew it on 52' lines and did get it to do a couple of loops. Eventually it was put to work as a C/L trainer for a flyin' buddy's bride. That too was published in FM. No idea what date that would have been, but, I'm sure I have it somewhere in my dusty archives.

Pic to follow later.


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