....now that the welled up tears have subsided from
that sentimental journey.... ....a long repressed
nightmare of mine has reared its ugly head. I had
hoped this memory would never return, but you guys
dregged it up from the deep recesses of my mind....

....my first r/c motor was a Fox .35 r/c. I only had it
for a few months....I quickly rid myself of that worthless
piece of junk. I think it was one of those butterfly
exhaust contraptions. What a waste of perfectly good
aluminum that was....

Those cheap Fox c/l motors were made for the paper-
boys of the continent, as a first motor, not because they
were the best....but simply because they were the
cheapest motors money could buy. But yes, they did
run, in fashion....if you wanted to call it that. But the
fact of the matter is....the Foxes never did hold a candle
to the jewel-like Rossi, OS, and even the K&B c/l motors
of the period.

I traded off all my c/l stuff, by about '75. I had some K&B
.40 Torpedos (rear intake) that were sweet. I had a friend
who collected and ran Rossi c/l motors at that time. He
has passed, but his son still has 'em all....trust me....
that cheaply made, poorly cast Fox motor couldn't make
a pimple on the butt of the fine c/l motors of the day.

But then....most paperboys weren't buying Rossi's.

Ok....I didn't want to do it....but here's that last Fox
motor episode I witnessed, and a very sad episode.

This guy showed up a few years ago with a beautiful
Cessna 310 twin....about an 8 footer....spent 2 years
building it....I think he was a full scale pilot as well.

He asked me to help him out with the thing. Man it was
nice. But to my horror....he had installed 2 Fox .74's.
I would have chosen a pair of OS 1.08 FSR's, but oh well.

Gonna keep this short, it pains me so....we got the Fox's
running as best we could....talk about sick dogs, and the
plane after a long run-out....got airborne. It rose about
100 feet in the air, and completed 270 degrees of the
first turn....no speed....when one of the dogs died....

Stall....spin.....crash. Two years work, and several hundred
dollars down the drain in 20 seconds. The guy had money
too, he simply didn't know that probably the worst possible
choice of engines for that plane was the cheap Fox's.

What a shame....I still feel sorry for the guy years later.

Live and learn.