Model Aircraft Fanatics (1968)

Bromley, Kent.
Various shots of members of the Bromley Radio Controlled Model Aircraft Society preparing and flying their aircraft in a field. Several shots of men and women in bobble hats holding remote control boxes with large aerials.
Cuts exist - see separate record.
FILM ID:427.12
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[@cyberneticinterfacemodular3996]

Flew them in the 1970s with my dad and sister great days then.

[@byronbailey9229]

Ah Futaba and OS Max - happy days

[@user-vl5zv2zr1m]

Я не знал!!!!!! Золотые люди!!! Мне в это время и года не было. ТАк я был мал! Но за то теперь я могу вернуть то время снова! Я 1968 года рождения и как мне жаль, что всё прошло мимо меня! Моя любовь, это модели самолётов! Радиосамолётов! Мне сегодня 55 лет. И я молод и у меня много FPV самолётов.

[@EnglishTurbines]

Loved the Glo Clip made from a wooden peg....🤔😳😀🇬🇧

[@James-gf9jl]

I love the smell of glow fuel in the morning.

[@radiocontrolled9181]

Me too, but all I smell in the morning is office smell ... 😢

[@Optimiser113]

Wow cool and so similar to todays RC planes in all ways.

[@falconer100]

In 1968 who would have predicted these aircraft to be as important as they are in modern warfare of today ?

[@NevilleParton-qn1ft]

First weaponised drone was designed in 1917...

[@madhukarjonathanminj2772]

The British invented a radio control drone wayy back during WW1

[@joseywilds3133]

Them transmitters are bomb I have one from my grandpa

[@DadsRCHangar]

Brilliant 🫡

[@Anthony-os8id]

Apart from radio gear going 2.4 The planes are basically the same still.

[@Optimiser113]

Exactly! So true

[@Grahame59]

Except that a lot of RC planes today are electric powered.

[@drganesan62]

MacGregor servo and radios in control

[@EleanorPeterson]

Sprengbrook? Yay!🙂 I had their much later Vario-modul set in the early '80s, first on 27MHz, then was able to switch it with a not-too-expensive plug-in module to 35MHz. Lovely gear. In the mid and late '70s we had a lot of radio hassle from imported Merkinese CB radios blasting out their 'Convoy' trucking nonsense on 27MHz (the frequency was legal in the States, not in the UK, where it had already been allocated to RC models). Things got so bad that the government finally moved the RC aircraft band to 35MHz. I think 27MHz remains in use for RC cars and boats, where radio interference is less likely to endanger lives. There was an alternative frequency, 459MHz, which was interference-free, but the radios [Reftec is the only brand I remember] were even more ludicrously expensive. Sadly, some rogue members of the CB radio community near where I flew (West Yorkshire in the north of England) took great delight in deliberately crashing our models. They wanted our frequency (which we'd had legally for decades) exclusively for themselves. They knew we flew on Sunday mornings, and acted accordingly. Our 'club' (not really a club, just some mates flying together) bought a frequency band monitor which we left switched on whenever anyone was airborne; we could hear when a CB guy was broadcasting, and land immediately. One particularly obnoxious bloke called himself 'The Barnsley Bandit'. He had a gigantically powerful (illegally so) base-station somewhere nearby, and a heavily boosted mobile radio in his van. He'd drive past our site, waiting for a plane to go up so that he could 'shoot' it down. He knew we were listening and mocked and taunted us over the air, and laughed if the pilot couldn't get his plane back on the ground before he crashed it. Big, high-flying, 'speck in the sky' gliders were especially vulnerable. The adults called him The Barnsley B**tard. He made a lot of kids miserable, me included. It was really sick. We all had third-party insurance, but that didn't stop planes, engines and radios being wrecked. Quite a few of us went back to free-flight and control-line models because RC was too costly. Ironically, CB radio itself was wiped out by another communication system when mobile phones came along and made it redundant. Ha, ha, ha. The 'breaker-breakers' succeeded in breaking the RC hobby for a lot of people (RC gear was expensive, and upgrading to 35MHz wasn't an option for most of us). The advent of cheap, interference-free 2.4GHz sets completely saved the hobby. But... Saved it just in time for quad-copters, FPV, and camera-'drones' to spoil it all again with new legislation, unfair taxes, pilot registration, remote ID, new rules, the threat of fines and imprisonment, a new 250g weight restriction, and all the rest of it. Sigh. I'm going back to free-flight before they ban that, too.

[@TobbaAndersson]

😍😍😍

[@w.e.s.]

The good o days of nickel batteries that lasted 5 minutes and weighed a ton

[@skyterrapin]

Ahhhhh Yeeessssss

[@MrMightybull]

Einfach nur geil... Ich hätte auch gerne so ein original Rc Flugzeug aus dieser Zeit.. 😅