The AMA films that were made in 70s and 80s did a great job of promoting the hobby/sport and also provide a great insight to the history and evolution and reminds me why as a teenager I fell in love with model flying that exists still today

thats what you call pioneers!! thanks for making this hobby so cheap for us, the people of the 21st century👏👏👏

The best hobby to be involved in imo

Ah yes, the good'ol days of pulling out the antenna on a 72 mhz radio!

this soundtrack is awesome. I love these little time vaults. lol

I like it when they show graceful landings with retracts working properly.

good video . I have seen The Blue Angels Fat Albert fly 3 or more times , and I got pics of my dd with the Stinsen trimotor

I notice many were using Futaba FP-102 . Best radio control gear I over owned !

Very realistic take off and landing..smooth and fluid...bravo😉

Love that Stinson model U!

Jeff Kayes voice makes me want to smoke a cigarette and drink a cup of coffee

I love how they had NO clue where electric would go 😂 the weight is SO much less.

the good old days

I’m gonna fly this year wearing tube socks with yellow stripes thenthe good time will be back

Sailplane 🌪️

That c-130 is huge!!

Love the tube socks

I had a Pitts special just like this one I loved it I had it for five years and one day I did a nice smooth roll and a loop and my top wing broke and it went to the ground noise first and I cried after I got home I got mine as a kit took me a long time to put it together me and my mom put it together it was are last plane me and my mom ever put together she always loved putting the monacoat on for me she did a pretty job at it she done every airport I put together and my mom ended up with pancreatic cancer and lost my mom and it killed me my hart hit the ground when it crashed I wish I could afford another one I use to race ump modified’s professionally on dirt I was hit buy another car and I hit the wall sideways and flipped me in the air and rolled nine time’s broke my neck in three places and then broke my right leg and broke my left arm six ribs and my collarbone I was air lifted to the hospital then that’s when I found out that I was born with MS and then on top of it all I have now spinal cord damage had to have three surgeries now I’m paralyzed from my left side of my face to my left arm down to both of my legs but I still fly airplane’s I still have my little 40s and my raptor 30 helicopter and some of my RC trucks and cars but I don’t feel sorry for myself at all I get out none stop and go lol I just loved seeing this Pitts special it reminded me of my mom again I was 20 when I had my plane and now I’m 45 years old now and love fun lol

I have not watched this video, I have watched a gem. And gems are created by stone cutters. Stone cutters are extremely skilled. I am sooo glad this type of video has gone extinct. Thank you for posting this joke.

On the description: "...C130 with 120 ft wingspan" ==> *Whoa!* That would be over 90% scale. You surely mean 20ft, *not* 120ft. :-)

nice :-)

Some unusual aircraft.

Amazing!!! Do you know when this documentary was produced?

How cool is this no gyros no 2.4 just what you can dream.... Oh to be six and covered in balsa cement

The narrator did work for nfl films

I love these videos except the part where they try to give everything titles such as the title of this video. Nobody involved in the hobby uses any of these characterizations. I saw one on control line the other day and the narrator gave every type of CL plane a unique name as if it was commonly used even though nobody has ever used any of those names other than the narrator.

shame the modeler got Fat Alberts nose wrong , But these films are wonderfully written and produced

What year do these films date?

Why are they all holding their radios so strangely?

This modern electric stuff would not take off 😅

I bet you that plane could carry a human

How old is this? Everyone still on 72mhz and Dave Brown is almost skinny. haha

What is it with the guys bouncing around and running all goofy in their short shorts? Geez!!!!

Dave Platt 15:57?

Musical track are desirable bit all r/c modellers and enthusiasts preffer to listen to is a lot of noise, smoke and dust...

I still don’t like electric.

Those were the real days of RC hobby. You built you plane and were proud of it. Now it's all a cheap plug and play garbage foam toys.

I made R/C videos back in the day, and they are just as cringe worthy to watch now as this is. Dated to be sure, and whoever wrote it was given to extreme hyperbole. Designed I'm sure to lure into the hobby people who had never seen R/C, perhaps at high school assemblies and boyscout meetings.

"Diamonds in the sky" must be the most meaningless title ever.

ridiculous overblown commentary .