ED Boomerangs
Posted: 21 Nov 2018, 16:17
It feels like Christmas has come early for me as the postman delivered an ED Boomerang, made in 1954, but has been in the USA since. It's in a far better condition than the one I already had, so the other is heading to Shaun.
For most people, it's probably not of as much interest as some later S/C sets such as Wee Macs and RCS, but for me it's from another golden age of R/C, the pioneering days.
When it was released it had one revolutionary innovation, it was completely wired and ready for use! Up until then you were expected to wire (and solder) the battery plugs to the switches and potentiometer, wire the switches to the Rx which needed wiring to the escapement. As a long departed friend (who was around at the time) said to me "if they had never been wired up, how could they have ever tested them"? I guess the answer is that they probably didn't!
To make the day even better, the wind dropped so I went and had a fly with the Weekender that Wagga_Wayne sent over from Oz to be flown at Ponty. Still in one piece and still flying well, albeit with a more modern converted RCS set that I was test flying for the first time.
Mike
For most people, it's probably not of as much interest as some later S/C sets such as Wee Macs and RCS, but for me it's from another golden age of R/C, the pioneering days.
When it was released it had one revolutionary innovation, it was completely wired and ready for use! Up until then you were expected to wire (and solder) the battery plugs to the switches and potentiometer, wire the switches to the Rx which needed wiring to the escapement. As a long departed friend (who was around at the time) said to me "if they had never been wired up, how could they have ever tested them"? I guess the answer is that they probably didn't!
To make the day even better, the wind dropped so I went and had a fly with the Weekender that Wagga_Wayne sent over from Oz to be flown at Ponty. Still in one piece and still flying well, albeit with a more modern converted RCS set that I was test flying for the first time.
Mike