I can't understand why other Cox airplanes aside from the PT-19 seem to get a bad rap. I got my start in aeromodelling with Cox and Testors products and developed the skill to fly - not crash(!) - at least those that I owned during my teen years. I never tried to fly inverted however, and I don't know if sustained inverted flight is even possible with the undercambered wing Cox airplanes. It was the neighbor kid that performed the only successful loop I had witnessed at that time with his own reverse color, PT-19. I don't know if I ever saw the P-40 fly but remember it was equipped with rubber tires and if it glided as well as the Stuka, believe it was probably capable of quiet, smooth as glass, landings when flown over blacktop. Yeah, the rubber tires were probably heavier and cost more to manufacture, but they were so much classier than plastic equivalents... IIRC, the P-40 was equipped with a complete Babe Bee including metal tank in all the airplane's versions?
Last edited by H5606; 02-01-2015 at 01:33 PM.