Modeling's Grand Illusions: The Story of Scale Model Aircraft - AMA Films

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[@guardianobserver6593]

The golden era of rc modelism. (control line planes were much more scale than today rc "models". I was a young back then and rc products was sold like gold in my country but thankfully I started this hobby when it was directed only to those capable of build their own model. "Number of reinold", airfoils and aeronautics in general was important if one was scratch build their own model. When the boom of kits and polistirene models started appear, I understood that it was time to leave my wonderful hobby. I was already build my own vacuum glider wings (3 and 4meters wingspan) with carbon and kevlar fuselage from my own stamps, but it was really risky flying with "crazy" people with big wallets and no brain. Nice times back then.

[@RcAircraft]

This is a must watch

[@onazram1]

Outstanding Video, I love the early 70's feel to it...

[@miller7759]

Six Turnin Four Burin......The Peace Maker Largest Bomber produced. Scale Models are Awsome. Working Gauges and operating trim tabs in the 70s WOW......what a GREAT Hobby to be apart of. Happy Flyin Piolts from the Blue Skies Western Pa

[@ianschroth6575]

Man, I love the rubber powered free flight. Soooo cool

[@tomcoryell]

Ian Schroth I’ve had great fun with rubber powered free flight.

[@4thGloryMonday]

u get a hundred times more enjoyment without the rubber. rc just feels better

[@aureliobrighton1871]

@@4thGloryMonday oily fumes and smoldering cells ... braid your rubbers .. and put a small rc unit in . that is for the connoisseur and gentleman 😉🌸

[@sharkkakirde1]

In today's age of video games, people have forgotten this sport.

[@aureliobrighton1871]

4:00 ... it is captivatingly beautiful ... and to actually expose it to gusts and waves and concentration had to be utmost thrilling . there is so much you can do without just buying uniform stuff :) Btw. 21:20 being Bavarian it did not go unnoticed to me that this gentleman also seems to be a full scale graduate from the Löwenbräu barrel university.

[@jimbo2629]

RAF Woodvale 1978. I have happy memories of flying at Woodvale in the 1960s.

[@Timsfpvshow]

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing

[@theblytonian3906]

Lucky and old enough to have enjoyed the indian summer of control-line's dominance. Although I've flown R/C for the past 30 years too, I've always enjoyed contro-line (U control) more than R/C, combat in particular.

[@peterzingler6221]

The amount of details on this small bomber wow..

[@CarminesRCTipsandTricks]

Could you imagine, those exquisite Aircraft with the WORKING Gauges... Flying today with modern FPV in the Cockpit?? If it's been done, I haven't found any on Video.

[@BaquePhotography]

Ive never heard of working analog gauges. Putting a little "glass" cockpit in today would be trivial in comparison.

[@peterzingler6221]

It has been done lately.

[@peterzingler6221]

@@BaquePhotography yes yes there are working gauges. I doubt they show real numbers tho

[@jaimesoberoelviro2498]

Good vídeo! I like,😎✌️

[@welshpete12]

I remember getting a lift in Fournier. I do not know what model it was. But it flew two, one behind the other . The wing tips folded up to go in the hanger and it had a converted Volkswagen car engine .

[@vincef.8261]

Wow! Neat video on RC Piloting aircraft model planes of the past. Now you can install mini gas turbo jet engines that could powered the 747 model shown towards the end of the video. Or the new large EDF motors.

[@scottfirman]

Sadly, many of those award winning planes probably ended up growing dust in a basement,garage or Musium somewhere,never to fly again. Today's planes do not come to this kind of detail.The foam planes being produced in China are crap compared to the best ever details of those planes. Happily, today's servos, receivers and transmitters really making flying RC fun and easy,even for beginners. Hopefully it keeps today's kids interested in RC.

[@ianking.5721]

These are all custom built.. people have way better material and tech to use nowadays. But I do agree that these planes are insane

[@BaquePhotography]

Foam is king!! I've crashed balsa planes I spent months building and its crushing. I quit the hobby several times after wrecks. Now with depron, I can crash everyday and not care a bit. I mean I dont crash everyday, but it wouldn't be a big deal if I did.

[@Rod_J]

The traditional materials are now prohibitively expensive. These new materials have brought design and experimentation back into affordability for the young hobbyist. Also Chinese manufacturers drive to save on material, while they have produced a lot of rubbish have also highlighted how chronically over built many older model designs were.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

@@BaquePhotography Exactly right. The old days werent that great at all.

[@ryanlemons3255]

Im resuming model building as i speak currently doing a lazy bee

[@ButchNackley]

0:30 Points deduction. N - Numbers; too large and spaced too far apart. 0:56 Points deduction. Propeller; Incorrect color, Pitch in opposite direction. Just horsing around, it looks fantastic.

[@TheRealBigfeet]

There are talented men and women all over the world in sheds, spare rooms, attics, and modelling clubs all over the world. Long may it continue. In the Uk a dying type of modelling is the garden railway, we even have airfields that are model, drone, helicopter flying only. Pretty Cool I think

[@badgumby9544]

I also noticed during my time flying RC that a lot of Scale Builders that build beautiful aircraft are pretty bad pilots. I went to the Scale Nationals at the AMA Headquarters in Muncie, IN once. Lots of terrible landings and crashes. But the aircraft where amazing.

[@kkteutsch6416]

Like song writers and interpreters musicians !

[@theblytonian3906]

The majority of RC pilots are poor flyers. It comes down to the recreational nature of the hobby, the poor instruction (blind leading the blind) and lack of demonstrated standards or knowledge and understanding required. I concur scale model 'pilots' are observably among the worst of that segment. In times past before the ARTF, because they spent the majority of their time building and dreaming rather than hands on flying.

[@CliffHarveyRCPlanes]

Amazing video 🙂

[@ccitationx7045]

Yooooo it's Cliff! nice to see you around, love your videos mate! I'm normally just a BNF guy, but your stick-and-tissue buildthroughs got me hooked, and now I've started trying some Guillows kits. I'm really enjoying them!

[@CliffHarveyRCPlanes]

@cCitationX That's great cC, they really are simple and fun, did you see the control line guy at 16:45! No safety barriers either 😗

[@royalmarutaka4489]

at 17:32 looks like that b-36 is probably an old kyo/eureka kit!

[@MultiSkyman1]

That control line pilot at 17:00? Did not know about that heavy pull!

[@collinmccallum]

im gonna build one of these on my channel someday :)

[@agfc6291]

In this drone era, finding a rc plane builder is getting more and more rarer. Feel sad for this.

[@ferce889]

lol that isnt true. dont be sad for something you think but do not know

[@bigmikelongwood3276]

I'm still building all my aircraft from plans alone.. The only way I know how you just buy plans an wood instead of kits

[@jeffs7915]

Yeah, but the new people entering the hobby have been conditioned to get quick gratification, "metiiculous care" does not epitomize a significant majority of the new flyers in the hobby.

[@ghoward6797]

I'm a builder, few of us left,still an exciting hobby with all the new technology out

[@innovatorx2112]

Nice vdo

[@badgumby9544]

I used to fly at Markham Park. It's commonly known as Mayhem Park these days. Mainly because there is virtually no supervision of any kind. Just west of Ft. Lauderdale in Weston, FL. Nice paved runway and located inside a very nice park that has small lakes, a gun range, bike trails, etc. Also has a nice area for Helicopter flying. RC flying, like a lot of other hobbies has declined tremendously lately. For many reasons.

[@thedave7760]

Does anyone know what year this film was made? I am guessing early 70's.

[@1musicsearcher]

When an "ARF" was the sound a dog made.

[@PerryCodes]

I'm sickened by where this hobby has turned... Lazy, lazy, lazy people and asian factories. This video is a testament to a better time.

[@mikmerl1]

Unfortunately you ask for balsa or plywood today in a model shop and they don't know what you are talking about. All you find are boxes of foam toys that you can buy and head directly for the field. No building skills required .

[@TestECull]

@@PerryCodes @1musicsearcher you two are what's wrong with the hobby right now. What matters is the grin on the pilot's face when they get their plane off the ground, not the means by which they acquired that grin. Me, I'm indifferent about it. I'll fly a foamy, an ARF, a long kit, a foamboard kit, all one right after the other. I've got a Kaos 40 long kit sitting here next to two Flite Test foamboard kits, an EPO F-86 Sabre, an EPO PT-17, several used balsa birds, three balsa ARFs, and I'll be adding a fourth balsa ARF soon as Tower gets the Kaos 60 restocked. The really funny thing is today's EPO PNP foamy is as detailed as the second place winners in these contests were, yet flies orders of magnitude better as well.

[@TestECull]

@@mikmerl1 Not the case in mine. They still have an ample selection of all the raw woods you could ever want to build from sticks. Still sell old school kits, epoxy, covering, tools, everything one needs.

[@PerryCodes]

@@TestECull Yeah ... lookout for those people that like to build the plane they fly... A real nasty group they are.

[@KevanleeRice]

sig makes balsa wood stamp cut kits still need exacto knife to trim

[@dicksatan6444]

John Facenda narrated?

[@torqingheads]

The Northern European, Ubermensch, the Master Race.

[@abdullahkhan8823]

4:53 aircraft kissing gauge

[@mikeryan2388]

I was thinking, "damn, somebody really doesn't like model airplanes." Because the first four minutes is like a dark, passive aggressive parody that describes these poor mentally challenged men who've been struck by a disease that consumes them. And then the guy started flipping everyone off around 4:20, kissing the glider not 30 seconds later, and now I don't know what is real anymore.

[@timmylumsden8060]

My Dad used to fly Chimpmuncks out of Woodvale ....WTF??

[@KevanleeRice]

fast dry 2 ppart epoxie model comp best friend

[@kevinsmith3967]

What happened to the great American aeromodeller?

[@onazram1]

open your eye's the hobby has advanced far beyond what is in this video

[@john.t645]

@@onazram1 has it though? The default model is now a rtf foamie that can be had for 50 bucks

[@willasproth]

John .T and that’s somehow worse?

[@umbratherios5614]

@@willasproth caa/faa happened

[@gregtaylor6146]

As is evident from the comments on here, today's self-centred woke generation are just too damn lazy!

[@jonmcalexander6475]

1976

[@leifvejby8023]

I was about to ask, it sure looks mid 70th. ^_^

[@josipvrandecic2472]

You have to look... that some young modelers see that the '' hot water '' has long been invented. Thanks so much.

[@billg7205]

24:52 He would have loved to have the gear to make that Mosquito fly. I flew the Guillow's a few years ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJ7Kfqqqnc1sY8U

[@boeesen]

Who the h... clicks dislike on a video like this?

[@bb4l881]

Answer to your question is: Younger modelers who don't appreciate what took to get a model aircraft into the air back then. When ARTF came along, it reduced the build time from years to hours, and when you crashed, it went from hurting you emotionally, to only hurting your bank balance.

[@tocolormemucsic44]

ARFITES that who

[@willasproth]

It’s funny to see all the balsa wood warriors annoyed that the hobby is far easier to enter now.

[@soarstar]

It's also funny to see all the cooler foam warriors annoyed that the hobby involved greater depth, skill and commitment than now ;)

[@willasproth]

Alby King it can still involve those things, it just doesn’t have too, why is that bad?

[@soarstar]

Will Asproth because we’re an angry judge mental lot! Now buzz off. (Kidding). TBH, it’s two very different hobbies. Scale modeling still exists, it just doesn’t have the same following. I thoroughly enjoy modern-day electronics / propulsion systems combined with the designing, engineering and fabrication required to look as real as possible. I also enjoy flying the wings off foam things. Certainly a lot less stressful.

[@peterzingler6221]

I guess this has to do with the fact that you can see if somebody made his own plane. Bought planes don't get any love or care. I had foamys first then balsa planes and you notice instant care boost. And I like that. I love building just as much as flying

[@thermalascension]

We came from the sky, and to the sky we will return...🌪️🕊️✝️

[@royalmarutaka4489]

whats with the dirty words in the caption at 35:30?

[@joewoodchuck3824]

If they ever stop being an elitist monopoly I'll consider joining. Al of their clubs require ama membership. It's extortion.