It seems we always return to our first Love, and in the case of airplanes for me it's a Cox Sportavia. No matter how much more accomplished a modeler or flyer I've become, these old birds bring back an excitement and recollection of the hobby when I was just starting out, and the days long ago when the maiden flight of a new plane might or might not result in the plane coming home in one piece especially in the hands of a beginner flyer.

Today, I delve into Electric Ducted fan jets, electric helicopters, and an assortment of sailplanes and .15 to .40 size gas planes, but it still brings a special smile to my face to fly an old classic Cox plane. I know the planes were made of injected foam, but I think the old Cox planes had heart in them. What is it they say, "they don't build them like they use to".