Just some old pics I found

LAST EDITED ON Apr-14-04 AT 01:07 AM (CDT)
 
I was cleaning out a drawer today and found a bunch of old picutres. thought I'd post a couple for laughs. Be kind. These were taken with a very old camera and I scanned them in tonight. Even found some pics of planes I built in high school. Some of the pictures were taken with a Polariod instant camera. Can't believed they survived at all. Sheesh!

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The first is the original Dragonslayer. Circa 1987 or so. This was my first attempt at a high AR plane. It was interesting

The second here is my original Mustang. About 1986 or so.
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Pat Johnston and me at some NW Regionals in the mid 80s. This was while it was still in Eugene on the grass. That's Pat's first Al Rabe Bearcat.

The bottom one here is my original design. I built this in 1971 while in high school. I have no idea if my folks still have the crude plans for it stuffed away somewhere. I think it had and Enya 35, but I'm not at all sure anymore. Probably just missed being Classic legal.

Those are some great looking planes, what engines did you have in them? I love the pics.

Beautiful planes!

I liked specially the first one, with the yellow, orange and red trim!

Ion,

This was my first attempt at a high aspect plane. I thought it was about 1986 or so, but Alan Resinger says it was earlier. Could be. I really liked that plane in spite of it's many, tragic shortcommings.

Hmm, I think the first one, the high aspect job, had an OS40FSR if I remember right. The Mustang had and ST 46. Pat had and ST 46 in the Bearcat. I'm pretty sure the bottom one had an Enya 35.

Here's a couple more.

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This is a weird plane I build in the late 80s sometime. This was at the NW Regionals...still on the grass at Eugene. Believe it or not, it had an HB 61 in it. Really heavy as I remember.

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This is Paul Walker's Frustration's End. A predecessor to the Bad News. This was taken in the mid-80s, I think, at Boeing in Seattle.

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This is Alan Resinger's Excitation II. Taken at Boeing, but Alan will have to date it. I can't remember, though it's likely the same era.

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This Novi IV was, I thought, a very cool plane. Someone else will have to give the details. The pilot's name was Marty something (I think). Early 80s

There are more if anyone is interested.

And last below, a toad from my past. Circa 1976. I have no idea what possessed me to build this plane. It had a Series 21 McCoy 40 in it and was grossly underpowered.

Hey Randy,

I enjoyed the photos from your past.

Hi Randy, as Patrick Rowan stated I love seeing older photos of planes.
keep em' coming.

Whoops, I should say something about the top picture with the high AR plane: that plane in front is Pat Johnston's rendition of Jimmy Cassel's Spectrum. Pat put a lot of miles on that plane. Had an ST60.

Hi Randy
Cool pics! Do you still have any of the planes?
Dwayne

Dwayne,

Nope. Some are still around. The High AR plane at the top was left hanging in a hobby shop in Nampa, ID about 20 years ago. Never saw it again. Most of the rest have met various demise. Some crashed, some given away.

Great shots Randy. You were building some really cool planes back then!!

Thanks for the comments. Here's a couple more (the last, I promise). Alan Resinger found a couple of them. One is a pic someone can identify.

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The start of a design that never really went anywhere. About 1987

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This is the next in the series. Had a trick cable control system that Ted Fancher tried to tell me probably wouldn't work. He was right. Ted is a very smart guy. About 1988.

Below is a pic from "some" nats. The presence of Jimmy Cassal's Spectrum and Paul Walker's Bad News must make it somewhere in the late 1980s. Maybe 1988? Can't remember. I'm sure others will.

Randy,

I noticed you had anhedral (spelling) built into the stab of one of your planes. Did that work?

When I was flying RC pattern in the 80's alot of designs had anhedral built in. It was said to help in a cross wind if I remember correctly.

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>Below is a pic from "some" nats. The presence of Jimmy
>Cassal's Spectrum and Paul Walker's Bad News must make it
>somewhere in the late 1980s. Maybe 1988? Can't remember. I'm
>sure others will.

The time was the 1985 NAT's. The reason I know is that is the only NAT's I flew that paticular "Bad News" in.

Nice Pic's Randy.

Question: The picture from 1976. Where were you located then and where did you fly it? I have some faint recollection of that plane.

John,

Well, that was the theory. It was the first of many efforts to reduce the design's sensitivity to turbulence. As I remember, it didn't do much more than look cool.

Paul,

Thanks for the date. I couldn't remember.

I doubt you ever saw the Gray Bomber. But you could have. I flew it at Whittier Narrows in late 75 or early 76 before leaving for college in Idaho (I think). I found a picture of an uncompleted Stunt Machine I did in about 1974. You might have seen that one if you were at Whittier Narrows at the time. It actually made a couple of contests.

>Thanks for the comments. Here's a couple more (the last, I
>promise). Alan Resinger found a couple of them. One is a pic
>someone can identify.
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>The start of a design that never really went anywhere. About
>1987
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>This is the next in the series. Had a trick cable control
>system that Ted Fancher tried to tell me probably wouldn't
>work. He was right. Ted is a very smart guy. About 1988.
>
>Below is a pic from "some" nats. The presence of Jimmy
>Cassal's Spectrum and Paul Walker's Bad News must make it
>somewhere in the late 1980s. Maybe 1988? Can't remember. I'm
>sure others will.

Looks like Windy's Miss BJ; a Big Jim Greenaway design in there with the late 1996 National Champion Bob Baron's Avanti.

OK, here's just a couple more and I'll stop taking up Len's drive space.

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This is a Windy "LJ" I built in the very late 1986 or so. I've gotten a lot of ribbing for this plane that has long outlived it's actual lifetime. It was crashed and rebuilt and Jim Welch in Idaho put about a thousand more flights on it before the controls finally wore out.

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Here's another picture of a later "LJ"ish plane that had a pretty cool finish. Alan Resinger sent me this one. Man, was I ever that skinny---and young? I left this plane with Jim Welch in Idaho and it hung on his shop wall till just a couple of years ago. He finally tore it down to salvage the controls. He said that while it didn't fly worth a poop, it was sure pretty to look at.

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This was a picture of a Randy Shultz Imitation varient. He hadn't actually finished it and just flew it in white for this contest (the Stunt-a-Thon, I think) It was the successor to Risky Business. Randy dropped out of site, but I remember this being a pretty cool plane. This must have been in the late 80s sometime. That's the east parking lot at Boeing. The plane in front of it was Pete Bergstrom's massive "2 week special". About 800 sq inches.

Well, that's it.

The Schultz plane was built in 84 for the Reno Nats. The "Risky Business" was used in 83. I think that Randy was Rookie of the year at Reno. Bergstrom had a stooge accident with that particular model and built another plane for Reno only to crash it in practice on Tuesday evening. Control system failed.

Alan,

Yea, that sounds right. I couldn't remember when it was except in the 80s. Schultz only flew a couple of years but was a very good pilot. Sounds like Pete too. He built that one when he crashed a couple of weeks before the Regionals and had to have something quickly