well, I was only 2 in 71, so yeah. But at around 9 I did manage to get a O.S. Max 40 for a silly swap with some kid , and I had a lot of fun with that thing. getting hold of ether was so much easier back then...but now it's methanol and nitromethane of course.

I was about to say I have a throttle arm/carb from my old Super Tigre G2300 that you're welcome to (I switched it over to a Perry carb).

Hi Dave, I saw a page for Top-Flite kits. Could you check and see if the Headmaster was listed? I ordered mine from Sig and 1971 was about the correct time frame.

Very enlightening being able to glance through stuff that was produced way before I was even born (1988). Thank you David! Wow. Makes you really wonder on the direction our illustrious, glorious hobby has taken today with these "fly out of the box" half baked pieces of recycled materials (electric foamies to you and me). Unbelievable. I believe the best era of R/C modelling was up until 2010 or so - then it literally took a plunge. So grateful having entered this magnificent hobby in the very late '90s - very early '00s. An era when our hobby actually made you think, use your brain... Regards Harry

Can’t see this anywhere else, thanks for sharing, I wish the hobby today was about modeling

Thank you David brings back a lot of memories.could i have that pdf of the first few pages really appreciate what your doing thanks

The sig raskel is one of the most beautiful model aircraft ever to fly . Cheers Andrew.

Companies like Sig and Tower Hobbies absolutely put companies like Motion Rc , Whoreizon , and Hobby Queen to complete shame . Hobby Queen has only two pages of planes offered for sale at this time . Two words can describe the modern day hobby suppliers in this day and age . Overpriced and really poor selection . Airplanes priced so young modelers can afford them are nothing but cheap crap that would discourage any young modeler. Just like everything else in this country . things were better fifty years than they are now . Yes I do own my share of foamies , but it`s the planes that I build that are the closest to my heart and the hobby I love . Real men fly planes with real engines .

I remember those great catalogs, I may still have a couple and one may be the one you are showing. I have built a couple Jetco glider kits in my teens, I still have a couple Jetco kits, a Mooney Mite I started many years ago, the fuse has a tin fuel tank buried in the nose. The wing and tail feathers are still in the box unassembled. The other kit is a Rearwin Speedster combo, control line, freeflight or early RC. I bought it on Evilbay about 10 years ago. They are nice kits crude diecut balsa and ply parts being careful cutting them out from the sheets the fit is very good with some light sanding. Plans are excellent and very clear and well done. It is well worth it to find a aircraft you like and purchase one just for the fun of it. Another one I bought as a kid was the award winning Scott Mc Closkey control line P-51D that I was going to convert to RC but I was talked into giving it away to my neighbor across the street when I lived in Westchester, California next to LAX. However I kept the box and plans which i still have. I could on and on. My first RC trainer was a Goldberg Falcon 56 Mk II powered by a K& B 40 and a Kraft 4 channel, I still have all of it in storage. Great fun, I love all the old memories, I hope to retrieve all of it soon. John from Hayden, Idaho BTW, back in the 70's when I started RC my go to place was Tower Hobbies which is still in business. I recently in the last 5 years I purchased a tower hobbies own brand Ryan STA 50" + I believe and some monokote. From Sig I purchased the german 117, beautiful lazer cut kit. Comet, stearling, Cox 049. 051 and others, plans up the ying/yang. Do you know about: The Plan Page, check it out, Stick and Tissue Plans you can blow up and construct some nice RC park flyer's. I have printed all of them 100 to 200%. Building two Ryan/North American Navion's. Have fun and I hope all of you get something out of my 70 years of modeling knowledge. Plastic too. Rare plane detective.

Wow... I'm stuck in the wrong century, That was absolutely Gobsmacking! I once had a reproduction Cl Golden Hawk from blackhawk models I built (now out of business) and also another finished model from ebay called a Zig-Zag, but the cg was wrong & it wouldn't fly for me. I saw both of them under the scientific model section in your catalog & very cool to see! What I would give to find a Real Hobby Shop this day & age... Very neat, thank you for sharing Sir.

Ahhhhhh nice walk thru memory lane. If it is `71 I'm 11 and jst doing C/L with Testers blister pack planes, but I knew where to get my R/C fix jst up the road on my bike to Grumman fields, what grt summers I had back in the day. The Sig Komet is the one I hv that i bought at swap meet on LI for $20 a steal back then in`95 Thks again see ya on the nxt

I have a Komet sitting in my cupboard waiting to be restored and for my Enya 60 X III to go back on it! Man i love that plane!

I know I am commenting on an older video but I have a qustion regarding the ST 90. From what i have read it is barely heavier than the 60. This may just be the Italian model. If it is a very small weight increase why would i want a 60 if i could have the 90 with no real penalty. For a sport plane not a scale one.

David, I live in Brazil and I can't adjust my Enya 50CX engine. I bought an engine and it came with the carburetor out of adjustment. I closed all the needles, how much do I have to open each needle?

I have a bunch of super tigre engines and parts. I'm almost positive I have a spare throttle arm for your carb. Use a heat gun on the carb after a few drops of MMO it will free right up after 30 seconds.

I bought a thunder tiger 54s online on ebay ..seller said was all good, but when arrived had no compression .I stripped down, thinking valves gummed up , but no , head was good. On complete strip down piston ring siezed in piston. Put PISTON in cleaner, but cannot free it. Soaking in 2 stroke mix at mo ,,,, x fingers Mike ( Uk)

This morning i went to fly, and a old mate of the club bring a calmato that he refurbish and got ready with a OS 40 FP, he told me the engine was stored in a box for 15 years, it started right away and run with no issue. Literally eternal engines.

Dave, this video has helped me so much. Can't thank you enough for your way of explaining this in easy terms for us all. I'll get with you soon and ship ya something for the collection.

Can anyone tell me what is different from the S & G models? I was doing a web search and couldn't find it. I've got a few G series made in Italy and China, but no S to compare. New to the Super Tigers and I'm impressed with the quality? What a great time to be in the hobby, thanks!

Hi David, I was surprised to see that crash engine again. I look forward to seeing parts of it run again. It is really a shame about the carb; I think I have seen carburetors like that on eBay in the past, but they were asking too much money for one; like $60. You say you have no muffler, but don't forget that I included the Pitts-style muffler with that engine, and while it's not OEM, it might be cool to see if you can get that on your test stand and give it a go. Good Luck, stay warm. florida_floyd

yepp , this is the reason I always use an aluminum spinner BACKPLATE at least even if i use a plastic spinner so the carb doesnt get ripped off the body when it does a nosedive life experience is invaluable its a shame I ruined a bullring 40 body to purchase this information nice job Mike

You have two more quarts of Marvel in your garage. Is there any reason you did not use some of it ? More oil would have covered the carb, which is stuck!??

With that elitism its no wonder its a dying entity, you've missed so much with your "opinion" it almost is a deterant. As with I'm sure thousands, I was introduced to the hobby via Helicopters then progressing through foam then a few scratch builds. If scratch building rc models were the ONLY entry the hobby would have died off long ago apart from those few look at me's, regardless of how you enjoy the hobby I dont think it should matter how shiny your shoes are compaired to person next to you.....if you enjoy building well thats great, I can assure you that the "builders generation" ain't that good at flying them that they should boast about it 😉

Who made the Paris Dish .12 …I put one in a RC 10 back in the 90s.?

Is it possible to purchase MMO down in Australia . Your videos are the best and would gun cleaning oil work . Cheers Andrew.

60 bucks. I got one used from a buddy.. A .45 mark 2 for 200 bucks in 89. I don't remember those ever being cheap. At least not "that" cheap. But yea the good old Tower Hobbies Catalog would come to your mailbox If you paid for the big one that is. Once a year. They did have the phone number to call but yea you could order form it too. The old guy that taught me to fly had the old Saito .60 with the open rockers. I needed Saito parts some years later and sent away for them by mail including the parts list etc.. I had gave up on it when I got a package in the mail from Saito probably a year later. What had happened is that I had sent the order to an old address for the company and they had moved to another State. Some nice person over there somehow got my order.. I don't know how.. and sent me the order with an updated address/phone number and an updated parts list for all the engines. They just took the check I sent even though the parts had changed price and the check I sent wasn't enough to cover the order. Sent the whole order to me without question. I thought that was super cool.

Stearman

Glad it arrived safe! Yeah that was all boxed together so I assumed those tail pieces were for a Smith Mini Plane. I see the mystery has been solved though over the mystery tail section. I havent seen Blazing Saddles in forever... Need to go back and rewatch it. One of my all times favorites of his is Spaceballs.

Yes I'm to this step on my Midwest Aeristar kit but it uses 2 pieces of triangle stock for the wing fairing!

harrumph, harrumph!!! Best movie of all time!! That monokote poster is pure gold!!

That Tail section Is for sure from a great planes superstearman 120, i have one and looks very similar.

Never fails when you get a plane 2nd hand you just never know what surprises you're gonna find from the previous person. Overall though, thats a pretty sweet plane... Seems well built and everything.

Awesome

Make an ugly stick out of it and mount a Saito on it 😊, reach out to the club get a wing. Yeah like you didn't already know this

Well doesn't everyone make TWO left side fuses to kick off their building venture into this hobby, so that ain't nothing jst an oooppsa 😊

Oh boy! You seem to have an eternal Christmas!

It is from a Great Plane Stearman 😊

A miracle for ten dollars!

Hi Dave, If you can, you should try for a few flights. The Kadet LT40 is a nice flying plane. I flew one several times but it was not mine. It shouldn't be too difficult to add the wing nose block and check that the rest of the plane is airworthy. I flew my first RC plane in 1970 and it was a 3 channel Top-Flite Headmaster. I installed an OS .25 with a 6 oz tank. I could fly for 20 minutes and still have about an ounce left. My instructor pushed me to fly in windy weather and on one occasion there was a nice steady 20 mph wind. He talked me through to a landing and I surprised myself when the plane slowed to a hover at about 10 feet and was instructed to close the throttle just a hair and the plane settled to a landing with now ground speed. My hands were shaking and that was enough flying. My friend was also be trained and we had a ball that day. It's nice taking a stroll down memory lane every once in a while.

Had a plane once that someone put a screw through the firewall into the tank to hold it in place. It was sealed with silicone and didn't seem to leak.

You can still get Quite a bit of parts from sig.You can order online. You have the score on supertiger G75. If you have the wrecked one the onethat you bought for parts I sent you 1 along with the G90. You have three. My first saito was a s91 i got in 2007 I don't know what color the boxes were in 97 but it was in a white box It's cool, that sig used to sell glow engines.

What are the sizes tires for the XTM 12 or 14mm ????

I want it Dave,id love to own a 20 🤙hi Sasha 😂

Offers on Ebay will get you some deals. Have had some monster deals where i offered half of what was listed.

Nice score Dave ,I'm going on eBay now to see if I can get a gem like this,the wife is asleep 😂 all the best 🤙

Hey Dave, I have quite a few larger 4 cycle OS & Saito engines and I love them all. I have a delima with some NIB engines to sell but I want to keep one of the smaller ones. What would your recomend a Saito FA-45mk 2 like presented here or the OS FS-52s in blue box? One day I know id wish i kept both, but i have to fund my airplane addiction somehow! Keep up the great work , love all that you do!

Hi Dave,, I'm surprised by the analytic that the viewer only watches for 3:31. I watch all you videos to the end. I have enjoyed the magazine and catalog videos. I say keep them coming.

One glimmer at least. Seagull models appears to be building gas airplanes. They must be watching your videos! " factory is located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and occupies an area of around 10,000 square metres. All of our premium models feature lightweight balsa from Papua New Guine, balsa plywood construction, individually-applied iron-on coverings using polyester film..." If we could only convince them to make some kits.