The Andrew Aircraft Model Company's S-Ray was the radio control airplane that I really had the most success with when learning to fly RC. An advertisement from a 1964 edition of RC Modeler is shown to the right. It includes both the S-Ray (shoulder wing) and the H-Ray (high wing). I do not even remember what engine I had in it - probably something really cheap that ran poorly. I probably also still had the OS Digital 3-channel radio control system in it, which would explain why I can remember running after it with the transmitter held high above my head trying to regain control of it. My S-Ray spent a night in a corn field out at the original PGRC (Prince Georges Radio Control) club in southern Maryland, as a result of flying out of range with it (range with that OS digital system was about 600 feet).

To the left is a scan of an advertisement for the OS Digital 3-channel radio control system that I bought second-hand from a man down the street from where I lived as a teenager. I paid him $100 for it sometime around 1974 or so. That is the equivalent of $438 in 2006 dollars according to the Inflation Calculator.





Biography of Louis J. Andrews













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