A brief historyBy Fred Cronenwett | clscale7@gmail.com| Photos by the author, except as noted 01.Peter Bauer flies with an RC car transmitter strapped to a CL handle. He uses a turn dial for throttle instead of a trigger lever. 02.Frank Beatty’s 1961 PT-22 model with three-line throttle control and a modified Fox 25 engine.The Control Line (CL) model that is flown today traces its roots back to the 1940s. Some of the traditional ways of setting up a CL model have not changed, but the models are now larger and have taken advantage of new technologies that are available.After World…
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