I first stated flying CL model with .049 cox engine at a local park near my home with my three sons’, later I used .15 and .35 engine in my planes.
I started RC flying sometime in the late 50. They were .15 size planes with single channel control, rubber powered escapement. The Rx had a vacuum tube. The Tx was single channel with one button for control, one press right two presses left.
Some time later I made quite a few single channel systems that were proportional rudder only for different club members. Later I made a four channel proportional system that had Tx control like the ones’ we use today. I install this system in a Senior Falcon. I never flew it. I had built it for a RC flyer from Houston, he did but I never heard how it came out. All of this equipment had to be hand make, PC Boards, Cases. You ordered part form one source or the other and put it together.
I quit RC in 1967 to go to work for Kay Electronic; I came back in 2000 after 33 years
I was the first president of the Port Arthur Radio Club in 1962, which were later 1965 renamed the Oily Birds.
I have never competed in any type of flying.