RE: FOX ENGINES
I do agree with Sport Pilot on how I suspect that certain large hobby companies were trying to do away with Fox Manufacturing. Get rid of some competition so to speak. So it affectedFox a lot at the time. Now then Enya engines apparently had problems too, as you probably have noticed they are not importing them into the USA either. It used to be most all of the hobby shops had Enya engines for sale in them, but the major importers don't bring them into the USA anymore either. Enyas are like Fox engines in that they do not wear out fast and are excellent running engines too. But I don't know what happened to Enya to drop out of sight either.
Now I do remember one day a couple of months ago, where I went to the flying field with four airplanes. Well the first three all had engine problems. So I broke out the last one and it worked fine, yes you guessed it, it was a Fox engine. A old beat up raggedy Fox .45 all encrusted with castor oil varnish too. Anyway I flew the heck out of it that day.