Was a Cox Babe Bee 0.8 cm3 (0.049 cu.in I assume).

I was 10 and life was like a bed of flowers. (sometimes ehe).

I managed to start it anyway. I used a Humungus 1.5 V dry cell, weighing about 2 pounds !

Cheers,
Ikoaros

My cousin Chucky gave me his Cox Stuka when I was 8, just after he got back from Viet Nam. It was the neatest plane I've ever had...

GOD BLESS THE VIETNAM VETS!!!!

My first model was a little chukie glider that I made when I decided to try a balsa model as a change from the plastic models I was building and painting up at the time. It was fall / winter 1965 and I was 11 years old.

And to set the pace for most of my later modeling it was my own design to boot. Didn't get my first Cox 049 until about a year later. And then came 2 or 3 failed attempts along with the carcasses to show for it as I taught myself how to fly controline. My first success at control line after 2 kits and an own design was.... you guessed it.... my own design again.