“ADVENTURES IN IMAGINATION” 1948 MODEL PLANE CONTEST DETROIT, MICHIGAN CONTROL LINE PLANES 76204
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This film, presented by The Plymouth Motor Corporation, is a black-and-white version of “Adventures in Imagination”, although a technicolored version also exists. The film is a York production, sanctioned by The Academy of Model Aeronautics, and it shows the run-up to the 2nd International Model Plane Contest and the event itself in Detroit, Michigan, including the awarding of trophies and prizes for the contest winners. The first International Model Plane Contest, sponsored by Plymouth Motor Corporation, was held in 1947, and the success led to the 2nd annual event depicted in this film.
Credits (00:06). Informational text written on screen (00:47). A rotating globe on a black backdrop (01:09). A filled bookshelf (01:22). Close-up scenes of the books (01:32). “Adventures in Imagination” title banner written on a book spine (01:47). A kettle hanging over a fireplace (01:52). Illustrations in a book of James Watt’s steam engine invention (01:56). The book’s pages are turned (02:01). A pot of boiling rubber depicting how Charles Goodyear developed vulcanized rubber (02:09). A radio-controlled airplane (02:17). A rotating globe on a black backdrop (02:27). A radio-controlled airplane (02:44). Scenes from the crowd of the 2nd International Model Plane Contest (02:54). The audience is gathered around an open field (02:57). Contesters fly their model airplanes on the field (03:04). Views of the audience (03:13). Views of the contesters flying their model airplanes (03:18). Scenes from the participants in the model airplane meet (03:26). Birds-eye-views of the capacity of the contest (03:30). Two young boys work on a model plane as part of the ‘Pal Club’ initiative (03:39). A ‘Pal Club’ meeting (03:47). A map of North America and a list of all the cities participating in the model plane contest (04:05). A parade (04:50). Crows watching the contest (04:54). Many cars parked (04:57). Crowds participating in the annual meet (05:01). Contesters preparing their model planes (05:05). Trophies are displayed (05:18). The sign for “The 2nd International Model Plane Contest” (05:21). A hotel in Detroit (05:29). Contesters register and prepare at the contest’s headquarters (05:33). Plymouth Motor Corporation provided tools for the contesters to repair and adjust their planes (06:09). Plymouth’s assistant general sales manager holds a meeting to brief the contesters (06:24). Contesters ride busses to the scene of the contest (06:44) and test their planes upon arrival (07:32). Four children eating lollipops (07:48). The test-flights continue (07:52). Contestant are weighing their planes (08:10). Spectators watch the test-flights (08:22). Model planes is wound up by rubber strings (09:08). The audience watches stunt and speed-flying at the stadium at the University of Detroit (09:52). Contesters prepare their plans for stunts on the sidelines (11:02). An 11-year-old girl competes, and the audience applauds (11:22). Views of contesters starting their planes (11:40). Views of the audience (12:35). Views of model plane-stunts (12:58). A children’s bagpipe orchestra (14:10). Crowds arriving at the stadium (14:36). Stunt-flying begins (14:48). The gas-powered-flight arena at Newport Field (15:02). Contesters weigh their planes (15:09) and assemble their model planes (15:29). Contesters test-fly their planes (16:15). Trucks are used to retrieve crashed planes (17:16). A sailplane-model (17:46). Contesters adjust and repair their planes (18:01) and continue flight-testing (18:28). The Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum (19:45). Contesters of the indoor-flight arena test their planes (20:06). One contester assembles his plane (20:48). Spectators watch the flights (21:24). A contester demonstrates how the surface of an indoor plane is made (21:34). Contesters fly their indoor rubber-powered planes (22:19). Guests visit the US Naval Air Station (23:33), swim at hotel pools (23:43), play piano (23:48), play Ping-Pong (23:57), and watch music-performances in between watching contests (24:06). The leading contesters arrive to watch the musical performance (24:37). Plymouth’s general sales manager, alongside Chrysler’s and the US Air Forces’ premier members, award the trophies to the contest’s winners (24:59). A ‘Pal Club’ meeting (29:13). Contesters winding up and flying their model planes (29:20). Four children eating lollipops (29:44). A model plane flying (29:48). “The End” written on screen on a rotating globe (30:06).
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The ‘Greatest Generation’ living the good life as it should be. The generation of today can’t hold a candle to them.
America at it's best!!!
Boy, those were really the good old days.
I love seeing these contests from the past. The innovation of the modelers is quite inspiring!
That's when people had manners.
Hovering with control line model, incredible!!
👍 👍 Bruce (xjet) sent me here :D
Xjet Brought me here.
@stephaniekent8483
6 жыл бұрын
same
@Freakofspeed
6 жыл бұрын
same :)
@silas6556
6 жыл бұрын
Same
@plasticbutcher
6 жыл бұрын
ditto
@stevetidy7945
6 жыл бұрын
Same
The indoor stuff is mind-blowing!
Sad most youngsters of today are no longer interested in this marvelous hobby; sticks and tissue have been replaced by smartphones and drones. 😔
Prop hanging with a control line model outstanding never saw that when i flew control line in the 1970's.
@mikepalumbo4362
6 жыл бұрын
ShermaddictedtoRC I wonder if that was Jim Walker?
@josephbridges9786
6 жыл бұрын
Might've been Jim Walker - he was Mr. Control-Line for a lot of years, back then. A great flyer, and a great "promoter" - one of the earliest boosters, of that segment of the sport, and one of the first independent entrepreneurs to build a solid business in the sport of model flying...that "prop-dancing" was one of his trade-mark techniques.
@stanburdick9708
3 жыл бұрын
@@josephbridges9786 you forgot the "3 at once show with one on the helmet and 2 on U reelys
Awesome video thanks bruce
when ppl and youngsters took an interest with model planes and it really shows! sure cant say that anymore , how sad
I loved seeing the old microfilm indoor free flight models.
@jesseshepherd10
7 жыл бұрын
"Kang" (Yuan Kang) Lee I was born that year. Still have a 36 inch D Stick. Big MF sheets
Wow! Did not know they did that super lite indoor flying stuff back then. And a black man there too.And by that I mean the spirit and brotherhood of model aviation even back then.
A lot of nostalgia ..beautiful
Here after recommendation by Bruce 'xjet' Simpson, of Tokoroa, New Zealand.
Beautiful planes and kickass helmets!
Bruce said it was worth a watch and so it was. Can't help wondering where the hobby took that dodgy left turn and ended up where it is today. Not sure if we will ever get back to this but I say we should give it a go!
So thats what we looked like...thanks for the upload!...
Bruce sent me.
All genders all races all ages God's I wish I had a time machine.
....... wow!!! another world
The Earth is rotating backwards!
@hertzair1186
3 ай бұрын
Going back in time
Looks like the guys at 11:54 have a compressed air motored ship...... wish I knew more about those... super ROG capabilities. This is a great film. Many thanks for posting.
@prinztom8652
6 жыл бұрын
Nope, you need an air stream to start a pulso jet engine....
G'day, Reporting to view the Phenonenon, as per instructions from +xjet Channel...; the Aeromodelling expatriot Emu, living in Kiwiland, orchestrating a return to the Glory Dayze of Aeromuddling... Victory..., HURRAH ! ;-p Ciao !
Bygone era. Use to build and fly control lines back in the late 70's, but they replaced the circular airfield with a office building, which made it hard to find an area that supported over 50 foot lines. Eventually I just gave it up, sadly. :(
@josephbridges9786
6 жыл бұрын
I flew - and mostly built what I flew, though I started with an Aeromite I got as a birthday gift (my Dad worked a part-time job at a big sporting-goods/toy store in Cincinnati) - for a few years while I was still in school, using the high-school practice football field (the H.S. principal was a family friend, which helped) on Saturdays and Sunday late-afternoons - field was wide enough to do 60- to 70-foot lines, and it was down in a "bowl" next to the field house, so not much wind to deal with. My true love, though was scale/semi-scale free-flight, gas-powered - though I had to go out a relative's farm outside of town for that - and rudder-only RC, once I started working a bit and had enough cash for the equipment. Finally became a "drop-out", though, when I acquired a family of my own - never enough time, and never enough money...
Great memory of american way
And not a word about Jim walker the father of ucontrol
2:31 “But to keep this world turning in the right direction.....” Globe is actually turning in the wrong direction.
@viennatech
3 жыл бұрын
That’s what they want us to believe! ;)
it looks like flite fest or joe nall just in the 40s
Bruce sent me too.
Nice
Flying model planes used to be a nice hobby. Now it has been ruined by drone fliers. In some countries now you can be jailed for flying without a permit. In the US there are so many new restrictions, it totally defeats the idea of modelling being a hobby, it has become a bureaucracy effort just to register to fly.
Those were the days, with no radio control, foam plastic and electric motors with dangerous batteries. REAL aeromodelling.
Funny how the globe is spinning the wrong way
bruce sent me
exjet me too a little like flight fest today
I was surprised to see that jet at 3:02. I had no idea they had model jets already in 1947.
@Dbassman999
8 жыл бұрын
It is pulse Jet. Principle of a V1.
@josephbridges9786
6 жыл бұрын
Right - that was a Dyna-Jet - ran on "white" gasoline, sometimes mixed with some kerosene and sometimes some alcohol. It had flat-metal "reed" valves, and used a very small spark plug for start-up ignition - you can see it flying at around 12:00 - 12:25...
been in the hobby 50 yrs and have seen the sport go down hill>>>>its a I WANT IT NOW WORLD no wonder the hobby's dying out
Our beautiful hobby is gone because of the media.. because of all the government restrictions and the negative views on drones, Im afraid to fly a small drone without the feeling people think of me as a perv or some kind of terrorist.
@stanburdick9708
3 жыл бұрын
THE MEDIA IS THE WORST DISEASE IN THE WORLD
@stanburdick9708
Жыл бұрын
Yep, leave it to the stinkin media to tear down society
Supposed to be teaching and showing the right ways to be but shows the world spinning the wrong way???
@micregil
4 жыл бұрын
@@tamarathompson9418 if the Earth is flat, how can it be daytime on one side, and night time on the other?
5:50 Is that Joe Biden putting his hard hat on backwards !
did we start model making, following germanys pre war trend of expirmenting with flight.... Inventing or inovation which seemed to place Germaning adhead flight science... we can inovate now without a permit or permission...the days of the shed inventor are well gone
Nice