Model AV documentary 1971 FF World's

[Mike Callas]

https://www.nfb.ca/film/180_is_max/?fbclid=IwAR3Zk3hQm_GFTIjtpfD0aAHez9cI9QQAIAAfM4RCayLm2mxZ2rvXoxsQbrA

OK its not C/L but it is the best movie I have seen on Model Aviation. The camera work is really good. Has a cool Le mans/Grand Prix vibe to it.

[Dave Hull]

Sweet!

But the sound mix with the burping diesel at 4:03 (still cold/undercompressed) while the camera shows a glow Rossi.....   Great to have a video that a modeler can love!

Divot McSlow

[curtis mattikow]

https://www.nfb.ca/film/180_is_max/?fbclid=IwAR3Zk3hQm_GFTIjtpfD0aAHez9cI9QQAIAAfM4RCayLm2mxZ2rvXoxsQbrA

OK its not C/L but it is the best movie I have seen on Model Aviation. The camera work is really good. Has a cool Le mans/Grand Prix vibe to it.

Fantastic.  Best I have ever seen.  Blows away those Jay Gerber AMA films.  Thanks for posting that, it really made my day.

[john e. holliday]

Free Flight the ultimate goal of keeping a plane up the longest with out losing it.  At our field yesterday David Trible and I were talking about how much room we have for FF when the crops have been harvested.   Only draw back is housing up on the bluff to the east,  a company doing excavation to the north with a big lake they are making taking out sand and rock.  Then there is the Kaw River to the west just behind the levee and tree line.  I told him about ne of the emails I get of flying on the bottom side of our great planet where they use radio control to keep an old time FF plane with in distance, but they are flying for just the fun of it.  I asked Dave if he ever got his new glider back that was lost on a test flight in a snow storm.   Wouldn't think about thermals in a snow storm.  I now think the best times I had flying RC(radio control) was when I flew the gliders.  Did both high start and power pods.   Been several times that I had better land and check my RC battery supply.   Was really great when I could fly formation with a big hawk.   May yet get out my kit of a large RC glider and build it just to relax a bit.   Thanks for a great video as I really enjoyed  it especially since I still don't have sound on the main computer.  It just hit me of the 70 NATS when my brother and our wives attended and we could see the guys putting up test flights of the FF planes.

[Mark Mc]

I now think the best times I had flying RC(radio control) was when I flew the gliders.  Did both high start and power pods.   Been several times that I had better land and check my RC battery supply.   Was really great when I could fly formation with a big hawk.   May yet get out my kit of a large RC glider and build it just to relax a bit.   

Doc, I too loved flying gliders.  Back in ’90, right after I got out of the Navy, I build a Goldberg Electra and took it out to the local industrial park near my house.  Had a 2 ˝ hour flight one afternoon with that Electra.  There was a dirt strip that was shared by R/C pilots, Ultralight pilots, and the local skydivers, but weekdays we usually had the strip to ourselves.  One day I had the Electra out, and it was so high that it was just a dot against the clouds.  I had to give it a turn command and then wait for about 10-20 seconds to see the effect.  I didn’t have a fancy altimeter, but I know it must have been about 3000 feet up.  I say that because as I was flying, a Cessna 182 flew over and throttle back, with dots starting to come out.  The skydivers had decided it was too a nice day not to jump, and had taken off from Birmingham International Airport and flew over to land at the industrial park to jump the rest of the afternoon.  As soon as I saw the plane come over the field, I gave the Electra hard rudder to spiral down as quick as I could to clear the area.  The jumpers beat the plane down.  I threw the Electra in the back of my truck real quick before any of the jumpers said anything.  I decided to take a break, so I drove over to a convenience store about a half mile away to get a drink, and as I was checking out, a couple of the jumpers came in.  One saw me and said, “Hey!  You fly those little planes over at Gilmer’s, don’t you?”  Ummm…. Yea.  “Do you know who flies the blue and white plane?”  Ummm…  Not sure.  “Well, if you see him, tell him I passed his plane at 2500 feet on the way down.”

So, yeah, I figure about 3000 feet.  Too bad the 400 foot rule makes those days over.

Mark

[curtis mattikow]

I've done a lot of RC soaring...
The Goldberg Electra...which incidentally was designed by Dave Patrick...mine did over an hour on the FIRST flight at a local schoolyard on the stock motor and a six cell pack.  It was impressive.
This film, though...the filmmakers and the modellers...they are real craftsman.  FF takes discipline.

[Steve Helmick]

One of my favorite movies of all time! They have edited out a bit of "rough language" from the first time I saw it. One of the Soviet glider fliers apparently got a "line cross" or bad air, and was obviously unhappy. I started flying F1A the year before this WC, but eventually met several of the guys in the film. Dave Sugden of Canada was one of the stars of this Canadian film. He was contestant #50 flying F1C (power) and it was he doing the Rossi .15 rework and bench testing early in the film, and in the F1C flyoff scenes.

In '79, '93 and 2001 the WC's were in California, so I took my dirt bike to retrieve for the Aussie team. In 2001, they had a contest the week before the WC (as usual), and it happened that the two Aussie power fliers I was chasing for shared a launch pole with Dave Sugden. Right off, I could see that it would expedite things for the Aussies if I also chased for Dave, so I offered. He was very appreciative and a VERY nice gentleman. It was stinking hot and dry, so not a good deal to be retrieving on foot. Yamaha power got 'er done! That was the year (2001) there was a booming population of Tarantulas, which seemed to fascinate the Europeans to the point of harassing the spiders a bit. <sigh>
  Steve

[Ken Culbertson]

One of my favorite movies of all time! They have edited out a bit of "rough language" from the first time I saw it. One of the Soviet glider fliers apparently got a "line cross" or bad air, and was obviously unhappy. I started flying F1A the year before this WC, but eventually met several of the guys in the film. Dave Sugden of Canada was one of the stars of this Canadian film. He was contestant #50 flying F1C (power) and it was he doing the Rossi .15 rework and bench testing early in the film, and in the F1C flyoff scenes.

In '79, '93 and 2001 the WC's were in California, so I took my dirt bike to retrieve for the Aussie team. In 2001, they had a contest the week before the WC (as usual), and it happened that the two Aussie power fliers I was chasing for shared a launch pole with Dave Sugden. Right off, I could see that it would expedite things for the Aussies if I also chased for Dave, so I offered. He was very appreciative and a VERY nice gentleman. It was stinking hot and dry, so not a good deal to be retrieving on foot. Yamaha power got 'er done! That was the year (2001) there was a booming population of Tarantulas, which seemed to fascinate the Europeans to the point of harassing the spiders a bit. <sigh>
  Steve

Steve:

You might enjoy this one.  1975 worlds.  The glider at 3:43 and 8:29 is Don Chancey's Hyperion.  Don taught me how to circle tow on that very plane after the worlds.  That is Don at 3:43.  Don't know the guys at 8:29.   I forgot haw funny it was when everybody ran around flapping something to get thermals to break lose.



Ken

[Mike Callas]

One of my favorite movies of all time! They have edited out a bit of "rough language" from the first time I saw it. One of the Soviet glider fliers apparently got a "line cross" or bad air, and was obviously unhappy. I started flying F1A the year before this WC, but eventually met several of the guys in the film. Dave Sugden of Canada was one of the stars of this Canadian film. He was contestant #50 flying F1C (power) and it was he doing the Rossi .15 rework and bench testing early in the film, and in the F1C flyoff scenes.

In '79, '93 and 2001 the WC's were in California, so I took my dirt bike to retrieve for the Aussie team. In 2001, they had a contest the week before the WC (as usual), and it happened that the two Aussie power fliers I was chasing for shared a launch pole with Dave Sugden. Right off, I could see that it would expedite things for the Aussies if I also chased for Dave, so I offered. He was very appreciative and a VERY nice gentleman. It was stinking hot and dry, so not a good deal to be retrieving on foot. Yamaha power got 'er done! That was the year (2001) there was a booming population of Tarantulas, which seemed to fascinate the Europeans to the point of harassing the spiders a bit. <sigh>
  Steve

That is so cool. FF is a big challenge. I am dabbling with electric and 1/2a

[Lauri Malila]

..and please remember that 2019 World Champs are back in California! Lost Hills in October. L