<div>Some time ago, the Cox Micro Warbird series of airplanes was very popular amongst the budget-minded modeling community. They were sold in an ARF setup for like $80, as well as a "foam only" offering (where you just got the airframe and brushed motor) for $20. Many modelers enjoyed the fun that these inexpensive RET (Rudder/Elevator/Throttle) planes offered, and many more modified the heck out of them (brushless motors, lipos, even modifications to add ailerons!). Whatever you were into, they were certainly fun to play with.</div><div></div><div>Then they just kinda disappeared from the RC scene.</div><div></div><div>Never fear, though. It would appear that they are back, but under a new distributor. Now keep in mind that these little planes are composed of EPS (Expanded Polystyrene - otherwise known as "bead foam" or "beer cooler foam"), so they won't hold up to a lot of abuse. However, if you build them light you'll have a winner on your hands! In fact, as cheap as they are, buy a few of them to share with your wannabe RC Scale Combat buddies!</div><div></div><div>Here's a link to the web page where I found them being sold:</div><div></div><div>Gravity Hobby Micro Warbirds </div>

The link won't work for me. Thanks for the heads up. I still have 3 or 4 of the Cox Corsairs, the best of the series for flying IMO.

Try this link. Very cool and great pricing.

www.************.com/home.php?cat=263

Well, this is all this site will let me post. Apparently, they don't like the link.

The company site is ************.com

Tried again to no avail. Use the name gravity hobby, combine the words and add the .com

Someday we will need to talk about how we once had freedom of speech.

I checked it out and look to be identical to the original Cox offerings. This will disappoint[] guys that have been buying these as collectors items for well over $50.[]

the link is ************, i hope is helpful for you.

4 just arrived at my door yesterday. The look nice.

We've never had freedom of speech on RCU. It is a private site and the owners have total control over what is posted.
I have no idea why RCU does not like this company. I guess you could ask RCAdmin or one of the moderators.

I would be interested to know why. If it is for legitimate reasons like poor busness practices, we all would benefit from knowing. Politics is another story.

Anything to add on this company Mister Moderator?

Most of our indoor flying group tried the Cox effort without much success......I for one will go with the ParkZone BNF series. They fly great and more are coming........

I know that they had quite a following at first around here as well. Many had problems with control and power. I modified a Corsair with a brushless outrunner and ailerons and love it. IMO, the corsair is the best flyer even as stock. The high dihedral in the wing makes the rudder very effective. Rudder only needs this dihedral.

www.************.com?
It is that right? It took me bad link! Not found.....[]<br type="_moz"/>

I asked the moderators by clicking the "report" link on the first post. They sent the following and said it was OK to pass the info along

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The response is Gravity hobby.com was added to our language filters because they choose to ignore RCU''s rules for commercial posting in our forums. Even after numerous warnings they continued to not only spam our forums, but they also created shill accounts in order to create bogus threads in order to advertise their products.

RCU has rules in place that allows businesses like this to make posts in our forums to get the word out about their product. However, they choose to ignore those avenues and instead decided to flood our forums. Our only avenue to combat this was to add the website address to our language filters.
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So, no great political conspiracy. No oppression of "free speech." Just an attempt to block a spammer.

Thank you for your efforts and post. This is not what I personally expected, but, in light of their responce, I believe RCU acted in an unbiased and fair way to what appears to be a lack of ethical discipline from this company. Of course, we have only heard one side so far, but that really isn't the subject of this thread. I hope this company is more respectful of the rules we all must honor in the future. I do like these little planes.