Building basa wood and tissue gliders

[The History Man]

One sniff and it's back to the 70s!

 

[Midlife]

http://boysvintagetoys.com/#/keil-kraft ... 4532020561

This is the plane, heavy enough so that if you ran out of fuel you could just spin it around on it's own

I'm 53 LOL

Shaun

PS Going to go to get some cork tiles and a base this weekend, Dunelm is too posh for me.......Wickes

 

[zetecmk2]

i used to love making these, it led to another retro problem i have!!!! kitchen full of rc heli's

 

[integerspin]

Tired engines, been there;-)
My dad was in to aeromodeling in the 30's and he bought a few secondhand engines, so when I started I got these really old engines. We would go somewhere with my latest control line plane and spend 4 hours trying to start the engine, by which time everyone wanted to go home. I would then loose/break the plane and build another and it went on... Years later, talking about electro plating he mentioned how he had plated a piston in one of the engine for several days to get it a good enough fit to start reliably!

 

[We_are_Stevo]

The best engine I ever had was a Super Tigre 2.5; absolutely metal in a Combat flying wing!

Friend of mine had the scale model Focke Wulf 190; beautiful...

...though I always wanted the SE5A.

 

[Midlife]

..........box arrived today, kids going to bed so opening in 10 mins

Shaun

 

[We_are_Stevo]

My favourite McCoy .049 engined plane was my Kiel Kraft Radian...

Going to have to stop reading this thread, I can't afford another retro hobby!!