Thirty years ago

[xspare]

I dug out my old 72.08 MHz Kraft KP-6A radio tonight... In today's dollars I paid almost twice as much for that radio system as I did for the entire B400 RTF package.

Look at the bloody servo & receiver. Talk about old school. :lol:

Notice the sticks were designed for thumbs. Pinching is for asses. ;)

http://helifreak.com/picture.php?albumid=1287&pictureid=14760

[ted_wears_a_hat]

Retro, if it works for fashion...

That is cool though, Atari-esque. :YeaBaby:

How many points in the throttle curve? AND a built in wind sock! :D

[BladeMadMan]

Man that is cool to see, Although I am not all that old 31, I have a great passion for collecting vintage/antique stuff.

Are you thinking of fiting the DX6i guts into it?

[Sky1trek]

Brings back memories indeed. The one I used had a round contour surrounding the pots, so must have been a later model. I also remember working on a few radio 'kits'. That was interesting, getting a box of TX parts and instructions.

[M.Huerta]

you can send it into XPS and they will convert it into 2.4 using their chips, there is a guy at my club that uses one of those on a couple planes for shifts and giggles and he says that the XPS stuff works great

[azheliguy]

I had one like that about 35 years ago. Cool to see one again and it brings back some good plane flying times.
I also had a single stick one. The rudder was on the same stick as the Aileron and Elevator. Thanks!!:)

[Atomsk]

This is an awesome post!

Makes me laugh now when I hear people argue about DX6i/DX7 differences. They are both way superior to what people had to deal with back then.

[Cailid]

I've still got my old Royal radio from 30 years ago.:YeaBaby:


http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/4/5/0/177536/dsc00128-0.jpg?rev=0

[fast400]

im trying to remember where i saw this.
but someone is bring back that style of radio`s.
maybe they never left i dont know. but when i saw them i was like wow i can remember seeing that style like way back when i first got into the rc world.
my first flying toy ever was the cox control line plane. it held like 3 cc`s of fuel.
you had to spin the prop backwards then slap on a bulky battery.
i dont know how may times that stupid prop hit my fingures

[xspare]

...my first flying toy ever was the cox control line plane. it held like 3 cc`s of fuel.
you had to spin the prop backwards then slap on a bulky battery.
i dont know how may times that stupid prop hit my fingures

Haha. Mine was a P-40 flying tiger with 3-bladed prop, and yes those little cox suckers sure liked to bite the hand that fed them... which was ok: payback generally came shortly after liftoff when they would head straight up and slam straight down into the ground. :lol:

Thanks for the memory.

[fast400]

Haha. Mine was a P-40 flying tiger with 3-bladed prop, and yes those little cox suckers sure liked to bite the hand that fed them... which was ok: payback generally came shortly after liftoff when they would head straight up and slam straight down into the ground. :lol:

Thanks for the memory.
im trying to remember i believe mine was a 3 bladed prop as well. it was drown with sharks teeth on the nose.
man that thing would make me ssoooo dizzy. going around in circle around and around and around. heck im getting dizzy now lol.
i cant for the life of me remember where i left that thing. ive moved so much.
and that was like 29 years ago. lol

[xspare]

Probably the same plane. I think mine was a little more vintage... probably 37 years ago, and I can't claim to have ever made a full rotation with it. It could well be the beginning of my dislike for nitro.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Curtiss_P-40E_Warhawk_at_the_National_Museum_of_the_United_S tates_Air_Force.jpg/300px-Curtiss_P-40E_Warhawk_at_the_National_Museum_of_the_United_S tates_Air_Force.jpg

[fast400]

thats what mine looked like too
minus the fuel tank or bomb on the belly