ORIGINAL: Ram-bro
I consider alot of us rc guys to be "Cox" survivors. Cox was put on earth to weed out the guys who really did nt have the heart for the hobby. I am not saying we flew them just that we surived the hand cranking, back firing, rubber band breaking , dizzying flights , bruised finger all day wasted great times with those cox planes.a
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You had Cox engines? You lucky dog. I had to suffer through three versions of Wen-Mac engines when I first started out. We couldn't afford those fancy, good running, easy to start, Cox engines. Then Wen-Mac came out with the IV series and all was well, but it still wasn't as hot as a Cox engine.
Later, all of my Cox engines were retrieved from the neighborhood trash cans a week or two after Christmas, or were given to me. The only Cox engines I've ever paid for was a Sportsman .15 back in the Sixties, which truly did suck and the .049 Babe Bee that came in the PT-19 trainer that I bought my new wife in 1969 to teach her to fly control line - which she did very well.
To this day, even though I own large gassers and glow engines, I still have a special affection for smaller models. I contribute that to flying 1/2A control line for several years as a youth.
Ed Cregger