The FIRST Glow Engine You Ever Owned-remember?
12-22-2009, 10:24 AM
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The FIRST Glow Engine You Ever Owned-remember?
This ought to be interesting....
Let's see what the first glow engine you guys ever owned was!!
Mine was a Cox .049 that came in one of those plastic Ukies from back in the day (back in the day for me being age 9, about 1992) I think it was the PT-19
The second was an O.S. .25
Let's see what the first glow engine you guys ever owned was!!
Mine was a Cox .049 that came in one of those plastic Ukies from back in the day (back in the day for me being age 9, about 1992) I think it was the PT-19
The second was an O.S. .25
12-22-2009, 10:35 AM
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first was a Babe Bee .049 (cox) in a PT-19 C/L plane. I was probably about 13, about 1970 or so. Next was a various succession of 1/2A's, all cox, including TD's, black widows, etc. Did 1/2A mouse racing for a while with the local club, before most of us gravitated to RC planes. First throttle equipped engine was an OS 10 in a Golberg Ranger 42. 1973.
12-22-2009, 10:38 AM
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RE: The FIRST Glow Engine You Ever Owned-remember?
Hi my first engine was an enya ss 40 that i aquired from my uncle when i decided to learn to fly rc planes at the age of 11
12-22-2009, 10:40 AM
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RE: The FIRST Glow Engine You Ever Owned-remember?
Thimble drome .049 in a plastic piper cub in 1959, Later on Cox bought out the line and renamed them.
12-22-2009, 10:58 AM
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Cox 049 in a plastic C/L P-39. motor ran nice, plane flew like a rock on the end of a string, I also got a OS free flight at the same time something like an 070 for a comet kit in the late 50's.
12-22-2009, 11:04 AM
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The first engine I was given was a Pee Wee .020 with a CG Ranger 30 kit on my 9th birthday. Lost it on the first flight.. 
. I also got a Jetex Scorpion 600 the same day. Score!!! That was abit much for my airplane skills, but snow sleds and cars were okay, though I think at least half of all the pellets burned was were expended in the rubble pile down the road or upside down after wiping out. Fun!
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. I also got a Jetex Scorpion 600 the same day. Score!!! That was abit much for my airplane skills, but snow sleds and cars were okay, though I think at least half of all the pellets burned was were expended in the rubble pile down the road or upside down after wiping out. Fun!MJD
12-22-2009, 11:14 AM
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Cox PT-19 control line with a 0.049 engine................ I was very young when i got it, and could not make it run. I just swung the plane around without the engine running....that was good enough for me at the time 
12-22-2009, 11:25 AM
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My first engine was a Webra Winner 2.5 cc diesel pulling an UC plane in 1957. My first glow was an Enya .15 for another UC plane. next I installed it in a RC plane from my own design (1975)
12-22-2009, 12:00 PM
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RE: The FIRST Glow Engine You Ever Owned-remember?
ORIGINAL: SJN
Cox PT-19 control line with a 0.049 engine................ I was very young when i got it, and could not make it run. I just swung the plane around without the engine running....that was good enough for me at the time
Cox PT-19 control line with a 0.049 engine................ I was very young when i got it, and could not make it run. I just swung the plane around without the engine running....that was good enough for me at the time
12-22-2009, 12:17 PM
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Mine was a Wen-Mac .049 in a Wen-Mac SBD Dauntless plastic U-Control. Like the Thimble Drome and Cox airplanes, Wen-Mac was a huge player back in the day. I had mine when I was 8 or 9 years old, back around 1960 and no one to help me get it running. So like SJN I swung it around on the lines and had a great old time 'flying' it.
That airplane made such an impression on me, that I have never forgotten it. For that reason, earlier this year I purchased one for my collection.
That airplane made such an impression on me, that I have never forgotten it. For that reason, earlier this year I purchased one for my collection.
12-22-2009, 12:25 PM
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A Fox .15 baffel piston, as Duke called it. I had it on a Sig Acromaster. Now I have Five Fox .15's just to keep the memory alive.
just to keep the memory alive.
12-22-2009, 12:44 PM
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A Wen Mac .049 Mk. XIII in their P-26 Peashooter...IIRC it was my 8th birthday, so that would be '68.
It was/is a heavy plastic RTF and didn't fly well...my older brother crashed it, so he built a Scientific "Kingpin" and we put the engine in that. Still have the engine.
Last year I found another Peashooter on epay in very nice condition (needs decals though )
Cost a heck of a lot more than it did back then...about 10 times as much.
Nice Dauntless Tom...[8D]
It was/is a heavy plastic RTF and didn't fly well...my older brother crashed it, so he built a Scientific "Kingpin" and we put the engine in that. Still have the engine.
Last year I found another Peashooter on epay in very nice condition (needs decals though )
Cost a heck of a lot more than it did back then...about 10 times as much.
Nice Dauntless Tom...[8D]
12-22-2009, 12:56 PM
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I got about 3 used engines in 52. Can't remember which was first. K&B infant .020. Baby Spitfire .045 or OK cub .049. Next I went big with a brand new O&R .19.
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12-22-2009, 01:04 PM
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My first engine was a Wen Mac .049 with recoil pull cord that came on a Turbo Jet plane in 1956 my next was an Enya 29 C/L sent to me for Christmas 1956 direct from Japan by an older brother stationed there in the Marines.
12-22-2009, 01:22 PM
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Am Ithe only one that flew a Testors P-40 Warhawk? Engine ran great, started easy and went on to power a profile C/L model. I think it was even the late model reedie but my memory is really hazy.
12-22-2009, 02:01 PM
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Mine was an old OS Max .80 that was in a Sterling Stearman my dad had build (in the 60's or 70's). Still have the engine in my basement.
[link=http://www.rojobcn.com/technic/avion/low/lo_DSCN8645mod.jpg]OS Max .80[/link]
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12-22-2009, 02:34 PM
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Mine was a Cox babe bee .049 on a lil' toot C/L plane. That .049 bit me so many times, ran backwards, but took hundreds of crashes while I learned not to get dizzy! It taught me to respect a prop, especially as I increased displacement size.
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First one Fox 15 for u/control. Fox Eagle 60 for R/C. Still have them both (the 60 is in pieces). See the story in the My favorite glow engine forum
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RE: The FIRST Glow Engine You Ever Owned-remember?
Hi!
My first venture into this wonderful hobby was my younger brothers Mc Coy .049 in 1962 when he was six and I eight.
Then when I was nine I got my own engine, an 1,5cc OS PET. I can still remember the joy when I finnaly got it running. I still have the big red 10x4 plastic prop laying that the hobby shop emplyee suggested to my mother. Tank was plastic plaster box.
Last year I bought a mint ex of that engine on e-Bay.
When I was ten I got a Webra winner 2. Never flew it but I run around the garden with the engine mounted on a wooden plank!
My first venture into this wonderful hobby was my younger brothers Mc Coy .049 in 1962 when he was six and I eight.
Then when I was nine I got my own engine, an 1,5cc OS PET. I can still remember the joy when I finnaly got it running. I still have the big red 10x4 plastic prop laying that the hobby shop emplyee suggested to my mother. Tank was plastic plaster box.
Last year I bought a mint ex of that engine on e-Bay.
When I was ten I got a Webra winner 2. Never flew it but I run around the garden with the engine mounted on a wooden plank!