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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: FLOYD CARTER on May 17, 2012, 12:50:20 PM
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This is listed as a "trainer"! I would not like to hand it to a beginning flyer. It would take too long to pick up all the little sticks and pieces. I think we have since learned to build trainers out of cast iron, or something as tough.
Floyd
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It looks like an awfully old design, before we all realized that trainers are whacked out of solid hunks of balsa (or, these days, foam).
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That's the "Tethered Trainer" from BlackHawk Models. I like it, but sure wouldn't want to train with it!
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AT1984 wins this week's "puzzler". It is indeed a Tethered Trainer. This was designed by Col. Earl Cayton and it appeared in the 1944 Air Trails Annual. The Annual was a yearly publication containing mostly articles that were not published in Air Trails magazine during the year. I often wonder if they simply had too many articles on hand and so had to put them into a year-end magazine to "clean up" their inventory? As I remember, there wasn't a whole lot of model activity in 1944, so it would be hard to imagine a flood of article submissions!
Floyd
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The ones pictured on the Black Hawk Models site are BEAUTIFUL!
Link: http://www.blackhawkmodels.com/bavintt.html
or: http://www.blackhawkmodels.com/tethered.html
If I ever learn to fly right...I'd like to have one.
Allen
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The Trainer I use is a Ringmaster Trainer designed by Pat King PATDK@aol.com.
Assembles like a FF model with rubber bands holding the wing and tail on.
Mine is powered by a Blue Bird 25 RC engine throttle controlled by my U/Troics Control handle.
Clancy
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Clancy,
Do you use the control throttle only to stop the engine, or it is possible linearly to control the throttle?
How?
Luiz
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AT1984
Very beautiful pictures and movie, too.
Luiz
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Do you use the control throttle only to stop the engine, or it is possible linearly to control the throttle?
Clancy is "Mr. U-Tronics", if that helps. The U-tronics system provides electronic control of on-board functions via signals sent down insulated lines. It works like radio control, without the radio.