All Because of Model Airplanes

“Model airplanes spark a sense of wonder in the young and keep it fresh and alive for people of all ages.”
Written and directed by Model Aviation Hall of Fame inductee Robert (Bob) Benjamin in the mid-1990s, “All Because of Model Airplanes” is a promotional video about aeromodeling and also highlights the Academy of Model Aeronautics and the benefits of being a member.
Primarily geared toward non-modelers, the video introduces Free Flight, Control Line, and Radio Control Models and the variety of aircraft flown within each of those categories. Segments highlighting aeromodeling history offer glimpses of Jim Walker and Walt and Bill Good, while brief interviews with Brian Richmond, Gil Coughlin, Paul Walker, and Woody Blanchard showcase the value of aeromodeling for aviation-related careers. Interviews with AMA members and their families from across the United States touch on the friendship and camaraderie of the hobby.
Overall time is 24 minutes.
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[@andystoybox1723]

Rough day at work , rough day at home , things not going my way , frustrated with certain things in life .. I go out and fly !!! Plane lifts off ground , instant freedom ! In that moment I am free and happy ... come in for a landing , it’s a beautiful landing , pick up the plane ✈️ walking back to the car ... look at the smile on my face .... I love it !!!

[@JessHull]

yes! I love that!

[@wesleyshirley326]

I think the AMA needs to go back and watch this to remember what there job is for the community.

[@JessHull]

Exactly, they're a joke now compared to what they were in this mini docu.

[@paulmills6189]

Exactly the thought I had when I listened to this. You wonder who bought them off.

[@Milkmans_Son]

And the band played on... The FAA's Remote ID is a done deal, and so is the hobby. It's not the AMA's fault, they just don't have the resources to go up against the major players in the drone delivery market like amazon, fedex, lockheed, and google. It's over (or it will be in less than two years, anyway).

[@berndm9743]

All they want if your hard earned dollars

[@asommer518]

You realize the AMA meets on average several HUNDRED times a year with various government committees and FAA to ENSURE modelers have their privilege's maintained in regards to flying sites and onerous regulations. Frankly they need more support from members both monetarily and with man power assistance. Whining about it is ZERO help

[@angelreading5098]

Very good historical model building and flying,the hobby has gone a long way in recent years we just have to keep fighting for our freedom to fly.

[@musk-eteer9898]

me and my son found this hobby a year ago during the early month of pandemic and now we belong to 3 clubs. these club members are the nicest and the funniest people alive.

[@darrellcook8253]

My experience too. Whenever something goes wrong I still hear my instructor Tom Overten saying "It is missing a wheel!" In a slow drawl. Still cracks me up.

[@petercyr3508]

I have been building and flying models and been an AMA member since 1966 at age 9. I was always an airplane nut. I got a degree in aerospace engineering and have a 41 year career. Last 20 years working on International Space Station software development. Still flying R/C.

[@gavinzellers4071]

I am wondering what degree to go into. If I like to build rc planes should I go into aerospace engineering?

[@mikearakelian6368]

Yep, how i got started as a kid... Now retired airline pilot... Back down to earth with my toy planes; and share this with my adult children n grand kids.... Great family outdoor activity!!

[@capnhardway]

I love it, been doing it a year, tore up a lot of airplanes but most repairable. So relaxing to just get away from everything, forget about everything! Highly recommend!

[@darrellcook8253]

I started with Gillows Sleek Streaks in 1960. And tried to see how long I could make them fly. My best flew out of sight. Next was Gillows kits and plank control line models I designed and built myself. Tnen I discovered Dave Platts Top Flight Contender and built 15 of them so far. Not including the ones I built in different scales, rubber band, glow fuel, gas and electrics. From 18" to 145". Now I've been living in a broken down motor home and have no place for my chosen hobby. Covering airplanes is still the best part followed by building balsa wood originals that try to out weird the last one I built. It's been fun.

[@Clownworldmatrixviewer]

I absolutely love building and flying rc model planes ❤️❤️‼️

[@hydrojet7x70]

Wow!! I am so glad I found this video! Its 2021 today and I have been flying for 31 years. Some of the clips in this video I remember from my childhood. This video is amazing and while it is old it’s still embraces the current borrow aviation clubs and the meaning for flying remote control.

[@onmyworkbench7000]

I know the guy at the 14:18 point in the video, Tom McCoy he was a member of the Valkyries model club on Buckeye Road just north of Palmetto, Florida, we lost that field around 2005 after over 30 years, it was sold and they built a FedEx shipping hub there. I started out flying control line in the 60's in a vacant lot on the east side of 18th Ave. Dr. in-between 7th St. and 8th St. in Palmetto Florida. The airplane shown at the 20:12 is the Curtiss Robin, my dad built one with a an 8ft wing span and it flew like a dream. It would do just about anything that you asked it to do but you had to finesse it through the maneuvers as it was way underpowered. Just to get it off the ground it used all of the runway that we had and some of the grass, you could measure it's rate of climb with a Calendar. To get it to do a loop you had to start with a lot of altitude firewall the engine then shove the nose down about -45deg. and build up a lot of speed and enter the loop then at the top of the loop back off the up elevator and just let it fall through the back haft of the loop and you had to let the nose point straight at the ground to get the speed needed to fort the recovery back to level flight, it was a DOG to fly. To roll it you had do like you did when doing a loop, but you had to start with a lot more of altitude than you did for a loop then firewall the engine and shove the nose down about -45deg. and build up a lot of speed pull the nose up to the +45 deg. point to start the roll you would apply full left ailerons and full left rudder and it would do the roll just as sweet as could be when it was upside you had to add almost full down elevator to keep the nose from dropping below the horizon then as it was finishing the roll you would get off the down elevator and get on the up elevator. It did not like to roll to the right I contributed to engine torque that helped when a rolling to the left. You could fly in inverted by doing a half roll and hold it inverted for a short time it was so underpowered you could not hold altitude with it inverted for very long. To spin it you had to start with a LOT of altitude point the nose into the wind and throttle back to an idle and slow her down by slowly pulling the nose up letting the airspeed drop and when she got sloppy on the Ailerons you would put in full up elevator, full left rudder a little left ailerons and rap the throttle to full throttle and she would go over on her back just a sweet as could be. As soon as that happen you would set the throttle back to idle and hold the full up elevator, full left rudder left ailerons until you wanted to stop the spin then all you had to do was let go of the sticks and she would stop spinning and you just recovered from the dive. That underpowered airplane taught me more about flying models airplanes than all the other model airplanes that I flew combined. it was like doing aerobatics with TRUCK! I loved flying that airplane.

[@jamesberwick2210]

You don't even have to become a pilot. I built models as a kid, got drafted, enlisted in the Air Force, became an Avionics Technician, repairing navigation equipment on a variety of military aircraft. What fun it was just to work out there on a flight line with giant model airplanes to me.

[@vupilot]

Does anybody know Mike Stokes from this video at the 10 min mark? He was AMA education coordinator at the time and lived just north of Indianapolis. He taught me to fly r/c as a teen at the local club in the late 90's. I went on to a career in aviation and never stopped flying r/c. It would be great to get in touch with him again if he is still around.

[@dorovaldojr3164]

I am Brazilian living in uberlandia and I was thrilled and happy to see this film, it was a relive of all my childhood and how it all started, really cool, it gave me more strength to start and take the models off the shelf, now it will be control line again. thanks to the producers./Dorovaldo Jr

[@spiroskatsikas]

Good things come from Good people 😌 🙏

[@philbarnes9361]

The faa caa and other authoritative bodies should watch this to see how thus hobby has positively inspired people. Astronauts, full size pilots, engineers etc etc. At the moment around the world authorities seem to be attempting to kill this hobby entirely

[@samuelcruz9258]

Im an rc builder and the felling of the first fly of something you make its fantastic .

[@northstar6888]

A great step back in time.. I pray it will continue unabated??

[@PS-nf3xw]

Now model airplanes are substitute for full scale ones, the lines are blurred!

[@radrich227]

Why is it that the Academy of Model Aeronautics and the American Motorcycle Association can share the initials AMA and the World Wildlife Foundation couldn't share WWF with the World Wrestling Federation?

[@asommer518]

Done forget the American Medical Association - forming in 1847, Motor Cycle AMA in 1924 and Aero Modeling AMA in 1936

[@jimsmith1856]

Hardy Kruger approves of this video.

[@atreyuprincipalh4043]

Absolutely great video God bless

[@trainliker100]

My first flying plane was the American Junior Aircraft Company "74" fighter. A balsa plane you hand launched and depending on wing position would fly straight or loop. And very well. Had a slight curve in the wings from being factory steamed. A little better than the somewhat cheaper offerings at the time. The company founder was Jim Walker who was also an early promoter of U-Control aircraft and had a patent on it. He would do demonstrations flying three U-Control aircraft at one time. Two by means of a control handle in each hand, and a third connected to a helmet he wore where he could tip his head up and down to control the plane. I think the first model I ever built (besides various plastic models) was the "P-61 Black Widow" kit which was all wood and might have been Strombecker's version. I was very young and my workmanship was pretty bad and so was the black paint job I slapped on. But you've got to start somewhere.

[@pilotsharkshanger9182]

This was very informative, and I enjoyed it and learned some as well.

[@modelaircraft]

Glad it was helpful!

[@45035]

Out standing shipmate. Press on. USS kitty Hawk CV-63 Jan 1980 to July 1983.

[@dsm2475]

You should really think about doing a updated version of this video.

[@darrellcook8253]

Yeah times have sure changed. Had to build my first radio system from a Heathkit, an orbit and then a primitive Futaba. Giant servos and batteries, huge receivers and clumsy installation of control systems to the flight surfaces. Tiny airplanes? Not yet invented. Time for an update.

[@acdii]

Not really, while radios have become more advanced, and Lithium now power electrics, the message is still the same. If you listen to what they say, building an RC plane gave them the knowledge to get into aviation, many making a career out of it. The joy one gets when taking a box of sticks and sheets, making it into a plane and having that first flight of something you built, just cannot be fully comprehended with words, but the look on that kids face say's it all.

[@davidfirth6535]

Excellent historic video, thank you.

[@cmolivella]

What a great video. Greetings from Colombia.

[@modelaircraft]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@stejer211]

The date of the video is 1998, not 'mid-1990s'. Also, not a word about electric flying? I'm pretty sure that even in the US they knew about electric flying by 1998.

[@robertkbrooks951]

I also enjoyed a Blast From The Past. I've been flying for 54 years now and have a collection of #499 R/C Aircraft, 30 Multi Rotors and a Full Size LAKE Amphibian Seaplane. My Club say's that i have a Serious " Hob-Session". CRCS Charleston Radio Control Society.

[@darrellcook8253]

You go! Keep going! Maybe I've crashed half of that many.

[@robertkbrooks951]

@@darrellcook8253 A quote from a t-shirt my sister in law sent me for X-mas, "Veteran R/C Pilot. I don't crash any more , but i don't crash any less either".

[@thermalascension]

In my life , since birth. 🌪️😊

[@mariadsouza6236]

I don't have a RC aircraft ,but I make wooden model of aircraft, my hobby from birth .

[@thermalascension]

@@mariadsouza6236 😏🌹 cool

[@donpasquale3187]

Nice to see!

[@SmaartguySA]

Wish there was a little more helicopter representation, especially scale helicopters. Great video never the less.

[@TA-pp9jk]

Great video

[@Milkmans_Son]

Almost enough to make one forget the fact that the FAA has already legislated the hobby out of existence. 24 months, 23 months, 22 months, 21 months... better fly while you can.

[@mjpburke1]

Great video!!!

[@georgealexander8661]

Model airplanes ARE REAL AIRPLANES!! They are JUST SMALLER! They are NOT just TOYS!!

[@rcman4.2flyboy]

Ture

[@fido3561]

and harder to fly than the big aircraft.

[@victorrcjets7660]

Model aviation is also for those who can't afford to become a full scale pilot. I really wished the fly Jets as a boy.

[@musk-eteer9898]

have you explore turbine jets yet?

[@victorrcjets7660]

@@musk-eteer9898 before yes, this year I was going to buy a turbine for sure.

[@userTJ39780]

made in the late 80's?

[@kevindurant1298]

Great video 👍

[@modelaircraft]

Thanks 👍

[@john2914]

Thanks for the 30 yr old video.

[@modelaircraft]

You're welcome! We used to show it in the museum's theatre, but we've recently decided to share it with the internet instead of keeping it all to ourselves. It's a great piece of aviation history.

[@fido3561]

AMA is sinking and all you are doing is trying to stop it. To many modelers leaving. @@modelaircraft

[@JamesManimal]

Thank the gods for 2.4Ghz

[@marksminis]

I have planes and radios and stuff, but hasn't the whole hobby been spoiled by the new RF ID nonsense from FAA?

[@rcman4.2flyboy]

Not for me outlaw flyer here 🤣 I don't give a dam about the law just used common sense

[@robertxavierbetancourtjuni8291]

It is too bad that CA23 and CA42 is forcing a MANDATORY FAR part 107 for SEVEN YEAR OLDS without instructions. These people will be discouraged to go into an aviation career.

[@rcman4.2flyboy]

Not if you move to a different countrie thats less restriction on aviation usa is no more i still fly im a outlaw flyer

[@germansnowman]

I’ve considered abandoning the hobby because of all the new restrictions. It’s quite stifling.

[@fido3561]

This year most likely will be my last. Cost to much. 200.00 field fee, 76.00 ama, gas to drive round trip 30.00, government 5.00 and all the building materials, and that's for a year.

[@thermalascension]

I'm 58

[@racefanwfo]

In my veins.

[@peter2uat]

more and more restrictions make this once wonderful hobby almost impossible, at least in Europe. Registration becomes a must, flying elsewhere but on club fields no longer allowed...no more fun in it.

[@fido3561]

I started flying in West Germany back in the 70s. I loved the country and the people. We had so much fun.

[@alanhilder1883]

This is a bit of an ad for AMA, Shame they are now, with their global like, trying the clear the air space for Amazon.

[@busabrye]

Fly one now with your son or daughter and go to prison and get fined, thanks for nothing AMA and FAA , more government regulations run amoke, let’s take our country back from these politicians

[@mainananakmobilakipedalpla6623]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@Arch007]

👍😎👍

[@borgonianevolution]

STILL stuck in the 50's reliving the "golden years" I see. The reality of the AMA is at the core they are quite segregatory and isolationist. The hobby has grown and expanded in many ways yet they hold on to the balsa snob mentality. They even tried to throw all other aspects of the hobby under the bus lobbying the FAA to get themselves set up as the regulatory entity everyone will be forced to join to be able to fly anything. (Howd that work out for you guys now no one is considered a CBO) When it comes down to all the new regulation will the AMA make their clubs be all inclusive or leave it up to the local clubs who (at a large portion of clubs) at present dont want anyone NOT in the good ole balsa boys club anywhere near them. Unless they adapt and accept the entire hobby they dont have enough pull to do anything good for the hobby over all and just perpetuate that old school isolationist ideal. As that generation dies off and no new members are coming in to keep it all alive it just adds to the separation amongst model aviators. Currently people only join because they think they have to with all the misinformation on new laws. I know literally hundreds of people who ONLY joined AMA just to be able to fly at Flite Fest and other big events. Anyway time for a new spiel to catch up with the times and tech as this one as a great part of history is cool is not functional in any way, shape, or form to help keep the hobby alive and moving forward.

[@wdtaut5650]

I find it interesting that AMA was formed to prevent government regulation of model aviation. In this century, they seem to embrace it, perhaps for reasons you suggest.

[@fido3561]

I have never received so many emails as i do now. the ama boat is sinking and they are trying to patch it with all these fund raisers.

[@borgonianevolution]

@@fido3561 I ditched the AMA the second they tried to throw drones under the bus to get proprietary control before the system was even mapped out. That whole rule of must have a spotter to take control of a race quadbefore it hits something is the dumbest thing ever. I can shut down mine and stall it in an instant far faster than it would take for me to hand over the radio.. Won't buy into stupid specially if it costs me money. Thats why I simply stopped flying.

[@donaldvincent]

After a bad day at work I love to fly my RC planes. Too bad they are all busted because I am a horrible pilot trying to learn on my own. Ugh!

[@JB73691]

Have you tried a Sim ?

[@donaldvincent]

@@JB73691 Yep, it even had my exact plane in it. Then we had to upgrade our computer and the new one has a basic graphics card that will not support the sim. So More money is the cure.

[@JB73691]

@@donaldvincent Yes, I see the dilemma. I had a free Sim but now my PC needs more memory. I haven't flown in a while so I want to practice, well the money pit begins lol

[@fido3561]

Watch out, the faa will start trying to regulate all sims.@@JB73691

[@JesseWright68]

Back before the hobby was ruined by ARF's and drones.