Deciding on a paint scheme??

[high time cub]

Re: Deciding on a paint scheme??

Bob,
Wow, you couldn't have picked a more perfect example of a dated design than 95200! Right out of the early to mid 70's. The faded magazine photo does wonders to enhance the presentation. The strong 1970s graphic design influence on 95200 can't be missed. Graphic designers such as Milton Glaser had a profound impact on popular culture. As and example, check out his Dylan poster of 1973..... http://www.worthington-levy.com/glaser.html
Jim

[mulwyk]

Re: Deciding on a paint scheme??

Interesting.
Check out this 1945 recruiting poster (below) that my wife found at a garage sale.
What do you think of the "new" Taylorcraft Sport?
Bob

[high time cub]

Re: Deciding on a paint scheme??

Bob
Great poster!
You have now segued into typographic design. Obviously the letters "FLY" are windswept by the prop wash. Not so obvious, is the tail on the "R" in MARINES which has been squared off and extended, planted firmly on the ground.
Possibly the forward lunge or warrior position?

I've only seen one picture of the new T-craft sport, I hope it still has that stubby cowl look!

C'mon Victor Bravo, chime in about those great Ben Buckle model designs!
Jim

[VictorBravo]

Re: Deciding on a paint scheme??

Bob

C'mon Victor Bravo, chime in about those great Ben Buckle model designs!
Jim

I've seen one or two of the Ben Buckle stuff at the R/C flying field, but converted to radio "assist" or full radio control. I think he made some new versions of Taibi's Powerhouse and a 10 foot Dallaire or something? But I am personally not of the vintage to have built or flown the old time free flight airplanes in the old times. I got to free flight pretty late, meaning after R/C and full scale airplanes. Didn't have the patience as a kid to do it. I do occasionally get to fly some free flight, but here in Los Angeles we don't have any big fields to fly in. Our largest field is not much compared to what the old timers remember. Our "big" field is limited to rubber, electric and CO2 for power. About 500 x 800 feet, give or take. Our "small" indoor flying site is a high school one-court basketball gymnasium. I do keep threatenign to fly out to Taft or Lost Hills, CA for one of the big FF contests one of these days. The local FF club is the famous "Blacksheep", with several current and past record holders. A whole lot of gray hair and probably a thousand years of cumulative experience!

[Richard Boyer]

Re: Deciding on a paint scheme?? -RC

We fly our R/C stuff of the same runway our real planes fly off of. We also have fun practicing "carrier landings.

Most of the planes in this pic are no longer with us!

The Pink line was one of our carrier cables.

CO2? Rubber? (rockets?)

We usually fly on saturday and sunday afternoons, weather providing......

Richard Boyer
N95791

[high time cub]

Re: Deciding on a paint scheme??

Bill,
I started my kids out on indoor rubber free flight. We flew at a local high school gym and sometimes at West Point. The old WP gym on the Hudson looks like it might have once been an airship hangar.

Indeed, some great talent in these clubs! One extremely knowledgeable and passionate octogenarian in our club, built wind tunnel models for NACA. Some of our members fly / compete at the airship hangar in Lakehurst N.J. Apparently, it's sooo large, it creates it's own weather patterns and generations of birds have grown up not knowing the world beyond!

The last I heard, the record for indoor rubber free flight was 67 minutes!!! Do you know if it has been broken?
Now there's a goal to shoot for!

Back to paint schemes.... maybe we should be looking towards the model airplane community for inspiration/ authenticity.

http://www.benbucklevintage.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_3

Jim

[VictorBravo]

Re: Deciding on a paint scheme??

Sorry to de-rail this thread away from the original subject... but... speaking of free flight and Taylorcrafts, I built one of the little Herr Engineering laser cut T-crafts. 17 or 18 inch span. I powered it with the "Kenway" small electric motor and a U-80 plastic propeller, with a very small two cell NiCad battery. The moddel would fly for three minutes outdoors, and flew away out of our field more than once. Now with the new Lithium batteries I'm sure you could easily have a five minute airplane with calm air. The kit is very good, old time modelers will be spoiled rotten with the quality of the pre-cut parts. I am now "working" on a Dare Engineering T-craft, which has a 27 inch span. I will convert this to R/C, which is now a no-brainer with the tiny equipment available. It should fly indoors and out. But I am "working" on it at a very slow pace! Anyone interested in the new world of miniature R/C airplanes, palmtop wingspan planes that are flown in the living room, etc. should check out John Worth's R/C Micro World online magazine. If you weren't aware of this stuff, you will be blown away.