How to Build U/Tronics Control Units - 2015/06

I am now 80 years old and my medical condition is deteriorating, so I have decided that my designs should be documented to allow others to build my U/Tronics Control (U/T) units. I will start with the single-channel unit, with the multichannel (four to seven channels) encoder and decoder units to follow. I coined the name U/Tronics Control in 1982. U/Tronics Control stands for U/Control (Control Line or CL) with electronics added. All UT units are designed for use with standard, not digital, servos.

P-38

IN THE OPINION of many, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning was the best fighter aircraft of World War II. I might be willing to concede that the P-51 was the best in the second half of the war, but the P-38 was operational much earlier and still much in the thick of it at the end. Just how good was the P-38? After a long over-water flight, it intercepted an aircraft carrying Admiral Yamamoto (planner of the Pearl Harbor attack), shot it down, and returned. Richard "Dick" Bong was (and still is) America's top ace with 40 victories while primarily flying P-38s. Thomas B. McGuire, Jr., America's No. 2 ace with 38 victories, also flew P-38s. Vividly showing its toughness, in no other fighter I know of could Lt. Thomas W. Smith have rammed an Me 109 head on, deep over Germany, and still returned to his home base in England.