Junior 60 maiden flight with 2.4ghz Reeds Emulation radio

This was truly a 'first' for several reasons - the first flight of the Junior 60 I'd been ressurecting for several evenings, first flight test of my homebrew 2.4ghz Reeds Emulation radio, first time with an unfamiliar motor & power system...
The Junior 60 uses just rudder, elevator & throttle but the set is a full emulation of a typical 1960 12-channel reed radio. Elevator trim was often a feature of reeds installations - but necessiated a separate trim servo. Mine has elevator trim as you'd expect in a true emulation but using the one elevator servo, plus trims on all the other channels. Throttle and aux channels are progressive (non-centreing).
All channels have simultaneous servo-slow built in as the old reed servos took a second to transit end-to-end, whereas modern servos are very fast.
Details are on the single-channel & vintage R/C website at http://www.singlechannel.co.uk or you can email me on philg@talk21.com.
Cheers
Phil
PS sorry the airborne shots are a bit sea-sicky, it was quite windy and the J60 was getting blown around a bit.
PPS the Sharkface maiden flight didnt didnt go at all well, far too much rudder movement and jeez the model is so fast... still, no airframe damage, just a bent motor shaft. Soon fixed.

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[60mrjunior]

Great video love all the vintage rc equipment do you fancy using original escapements in a model to get back that old sound!!!!!!

[himagain99]

Brilliant Phil, none of that proportional rubbish.

[Grunta5]

Very cool !