1983 was the end of my aeromodelling having been brought up with free flight, control line. Progressed to single channel and then digital proportional. I watch young children today with their RC boats and cars and planes and they have no idea what went on before to get them where they are today. I feel privileged to have been a part of the early days of RC with my father who started RC modelling in the 1940s.

Not just a talented saxophonist 🎷

A feast for the ears, great playing

Excellent

Great time lapse record of the demolition of this area of the mill. I knew it well.

this vid made me smile

At this rate there will be very few old industrial buildings left in this country.😢

More interesting footage from the filmer of all sorts of stuff. Cheers Ta seems apt Mr V

Thanks for posting, its sad to see how dilapidated things have become over the years, but guess there are some out there thinking good riddance now knock the rest down.

I would love to watch this without the extremely annoying background music!!! Can't make it to the 1 minute mark.......

Look what I bought with my bootleg cash! 😂

Wonderful footage. The Sand Scorcher was my first R/C car back in about '83. I remember going to a first "run what you brung" race in rural Michigan. The track had a big jump over a water feature or an alternate bypass. Then we found a local guy in Lansing who had built an actual track in his backyard and would host races with his buddies and I got to join. I was so hooked. I remember being so excited to get a "Leisure Electronics" 15 minute car battery charger - it put the painfully slow multi-hour charger to shame. Then came the Tekin with "peak detection". Speed control on the Scorcher was a mechanical wiper arm that you'd have to clean off every few runs. I loved driving the car through puddles - the waterproof radio box did a pretty good job at keep all the muck out. Many years later I went on to work at the Ranch Pit Shop (right when Losi launched the JRX2) and then later still at Serpent MRC in The Netherlands. RC has been a joy for many years of my life. Thank you for sharing this footage.

Oh my God! What an absolutely priceless Tamiya time-capsule . The Sand Scorcher, Rough Rider and Superchamp putting on a great show. Very nostalgic, especially for a Gen Xer who got a Sand Scorcher himself back in this very year!

Good memories, back when flying anything took real talent and sacrifice, it’s too easy for us now but I appreciate it both ways❤

Thx for sharing that. '83 was good times for sure. Been doing flying models since the mid 60's. FF, CL, R/C. Anyone remember Western Associated Modelers aka WAM? Or Aero Modelers of San Jose ( CA )? Did CL for a few years with them. How about Wavemasters of San Jose ( still going ). I'm out in Colorado now, was in Arvada Associated Modelers for a while, but now I'm 'freelancing' lol.

When the winds of change were just gusts gripping gangsters ... lovely humour .. the captain really makes it look easy and the plane appears just tight . Cheers from Germany 🌻:)

Thanks for sharing this great film. It brings back memories of 1986 when i got my first model aeroplane, an MFA Yamamoto with an OS 40 two stroke engine. My first radio was a Futaba Challenger and 37 years later im still enjoying the hobby and im still flying my planes with a Futaba 9c super radio 2.4 . Those were happy days.

👍👍👍👍 souvenir

Very great footage; thanks for sharing! I, too, miss those days.

This is the biggest grin! A vintage Tamyia showcase! Seems just before the FROG.

Hand-launching a Glow . . .truly epic, 1983 is the year I started in this great Hobby at the ripe old age of 9 lol, great video RC flying in the UK!

0:03 I thought there was an Ambulance RC coming down the track! 😳😲😂🤣

Ambulance 🚑 ❤ Hair cuts ❤ RC's ❤ Fantastic old school flavour through and through ❤

Sanwa Black Custom transmitter on the floor. The best radio Sanwa ever made..... My first decent new set was a Flight Link Sovereign, bought new in October 1975 (I still have it).......it cost me £175. Would be £800 to £1000+ now..... First decent new engine was an OS .30, which cost me £10.99 in 1973....... I've been flying 100% electric for years now. Even the sound of those engines on the video made me wince.....

Not seen PM2 in this set up before, when I was there 88 onwards it was a mould machine.8 years a dryerman 8 years a machineman PM2.

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The hobby has come a long way since then, but this makes me feel good. Seeing this brings back memories of my old cars and friends. Thanks for sharing!

Awesome vintage video!!! RC's were a lot simpler back then...Even I didn't get my first hobby grade RC till 85 with a Tamiya Hornet. At nearly 49 years old and still heavily into RC.. have like 20 odd cars...mostly modern land missiles with Traxxas and Arrma featuring strongly. Those old mechanical 3 step speed controllers made handling a little bit of a handful that's for sure lol. Great memories.

Before there was A-main drivers there was THIS………….

Wish ppl still were into this n bmx n skateboarding in organized competition as in the 80s.

This is precious footage! This was when the hobby was still a little niche! In Australia it didn’t really take off until 1985. There was a store called uncle Pete’s toys. They began selling battery/charger/controller deals of the hornet hotshot and frog. After that the hobby really took off! Everyone had a hornet and if you had money you had a hotshot!

I used to race my Rough Rider against a couple of Sand Scorchers back around 1983 on a dusty farm track, great times and we got pretty good with them. I only took my old model to the tip a few years ago. I can't believe that was 40 years ago...👍

That third plane looks like an "Astro-Mite. A neighbor gave me an unfinished model and I finished it before I ever had a motor for it. It ended up being rekitted. About ten years ago I found another one, unbuilt. One of these days...

Couldn't wait to return home from honeymoon in Sept '84, my new RC10 should have been delivered whilst away.

Happy days! My wife bought me a Tamiya Super Sabre for christmas around 1987. I'd seen a colleague at work racing the Tamiya Frog around the carpark and I had a quick go, I was hooked. Those long 27mhz antennas ⚠️😳😲 and the really short nicad running times! I recently found my super sabre in my garage after 30 odd years of not running it, tried it out recently, some short videos on my channel.😁👍

the days of, if you wanted to fly you had to build

The good old days when you could find an empty field miles from anywhere and fly without any issues, 1983 i was just starting on planes (a Junior 60 to learn with) after a few good years racing model cars.

Ahhh yes ,the old band aid on the finger…..!

Yep.I had a beautiful 2 m wingspan glider. First flight ,the sand dune looked the same afterwards….glider didn’t !….!

I enjoyed the comments as much as the video!!

no problem determining the wind direction...classic video and reminds me of the old days on 35mhz and one thing more to worry about...an ariel

I flew rc in the 80's. For ever model i crashed the radio crashed another AM radio frequencies in those days were diabolical.

awesome

Great video, I started rc car racing in 82 or 83 , not sure exactly when , with a rough rider , this brought back some great memories of racing in the uk

Wasn’t very fast back the. But still looked fun

My first low wing airplane, the Gangster 52.

Yes my grasshopper survived the jumps. My mechanical speed controller was protected by the included black rubber. Those early 80s my every friend of mine enjoyed the hobby. Every street you’d the familiar sound.

brings back fond memories. of when i first tried an r/c car/ now i have a small fleet aboiut 20 plus. and they would stomp these cars out today. i miss them

so thankful for electric today- I always hated the messiness and noise of gas

Back when kids wanted to play with and be transformers. Thanks to democrats its now transgenders.