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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Andrew Borgogna on January 13, 2008, 11:21:37 AM
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Yesterday Larry Renger myself and several other members of the Knights of the Round Circle took turns manning our club booth at the convention. We were the only representatives of control line in the entire building. We had several planes on display from a Cox PT-19 to full flap stinter's. Being a total control line club, not just stunt, we also had some speed planes on display, and during the day Larry was building a Blackhawk model. We did get lots of interest, we even had a couple of people showing interest in visiting our flying site and getting back into control line after many years in R/C. Sound familiar? Hands down the plane that got the most interest was PT-19 countless people would stop to say that was the plane the got them hooked into model airplanes. The speed planes had a lot of wow factor, they just look fast sitting on a table. Best of all I had two members of this forum stop and talk after they saw my name on the convention badge, that really made me feel good. We are a brotherhood, we may be small in numbers but we are truly dedicated to our hobby. One last thing I did take a walk on the dark side and played with several simulator, man have they come a long way. Oh, an man have my R/C skills slipped a bit. After a few minutes on the simulator was back to flying and shooting fairly decent landings. I even took a couple of turns on he helicopter simulator, I have been thinking about buying a RTF electric that Tower is offering. Good thing I tried out he simulator helicopters are nothing like fixed wing, before I would even think about flying a reel model I would spend several hours on the simulator.
Anyway to the forum members who stopped by thanks a million it was great talking to you. To my fellow members of the KOTRC, we did good guys.
Andy
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Nice to see you, Andy.
I saw at least these guys;
Larry Renger
Warren Walker
Tony Nacaratto
Bob Whitely
John Wright
Warren Tiahrt
Roy DeCamara
Bob Harness
Kirk Mullinex
Jim Levell
Antone Kephart
Bill Morrell
Igor Panchenko
Jerry and Michael McMillin
Andy and a couple of other KOTRC members that I know by face but can't remember their names (sorry men), so it was a good turn out for CL guys.
Thanks for the work and support of the CL Frat!
Chris...
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I had a real good time looking at all the planes and getting to meet a few people I had never got to meet before, Andy, Larry Rengar and Bob Whitely. Also got to meet Chris McMillans Dad and son. Alot of new products for the R/C guys. The swap shop was kinda as expected, high prices and not much there. The KOTRC booth was very well set up. This year was the first time I got my wife to go with me to the AMA show. She won a T shirt on the AMA's raffle wheel. I ended up taking her to lunch at another location after hearing from Bob Whitely that the hot dogs were lousy.
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I am so curious! What model was Larry Renger building?
Sounds like a good time was had by all who attended!
Robert
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Robert
I will try to find out what the plane was called, Larry if your out there in cyber land tell us. I had the opportunity to meet Charles Mackey, I was by myself at the booth and he comes and asked for some people, when I told him that they would be back in a bit he said to tell them Charley Mackey said hi. To which I stood up and told him what an honor it was to finally meet him. Bob Whitely is a really nice guy too, after the show we went to a club members house and had a small party and Bob was there. It is so much fun to here him talk about his experiences and the people he knew back when stunt was king of the Nats. All in all a great day.
Andy
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Robert
You asked about the model that Larry was building I got the following info back from Larry. It's called the "American Boy". It is a replica of the old Scientific model as reproduced by Blackhawk models.
Andy
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Back in the day, I wore out three of those Scientific American Boys flying in the back yard. Used about 20 foot of dacron flying lines with the little fiber board control line handle that you wound the lines around for strorage. Still have the OK Cub .049A that was used on them. Now I know why glide path was so steep when engine quit. Later, DOC Holliday