The very latest in "trainers".

[FLOYD CARTER]

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

[Tim Wescott]

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).

[AT1984]

That's the "Tethered Trainer" from BlackHawk Models. I like it, but sure wouldn't want to train with it!

[FLOYD CARTER]

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

[AT1984]

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

[Clancy Arnold]

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

[Luiz Ribeiro]

Clancy,

Do you use the control throttle only to stop the engine, or it is possible linearly to control the throttle?

How?

Luiz

[Luiz Ribeiro]

AT1984

Very beautiful pictures and movie, too.

Luiz

[Tim Wescott]

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.