Your first CL Plane? just for fun
#151
I was in my early teens visiting my cousins and a neighbor of theirs was flying a sheet wood cox .049 powered plane. They let me take the controls and I was hooked. My mother then bought me a Cox plastic P51, which did not last one flight. So I made my own sheet wood plane that I designed just from rough memory of the one I flew at my cousins. I eventually move to .35 powered kits and then to RC.
I have been in love with designing my own birds ever since.
Ken
I have been in love with designing my own birds ever since.
Ken
#152
My Feedback: (49)
Yes, and I just found (Google is your friend) that what I had was a Varga Shinn manufactured by Thimble Drone. And yes, it had everything included:-)
There is a list of the models at the bottom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_mod...odel_Airplanes
Gerry
There is a list of the models at the bottom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_mod...odel_Airplanes
Gerry
No wonder he'd a good looking talented 6'4" Blond young man. Who flies better than this OLD 70 year old. Gett'm girls.
#153
Senior Member
I built a lot of those sheet balsa planes from kits & hung my Cox .049 Bee on them. I think they were Sterling kits. I bought my hobby supplies @ "Arts Camera Shop" on Burnumn Ave in Calumet City, IL. I remenber a single engine P-38 profile & a Focker D-VII. The Focker was really nice when I finished it but my 22 year old brother (I was 15) insisted on the maiden flight. He did a wing over on the first go-round & put it straight in on blacktop in the school yard.
#156
Senior Member
My Feedback: (1)
I built a lot of those sheet balsa planes from kits & hung my Cox .049 Bee on them. I think they were Sterling kits. I bought my hobby supplies @ "Arts Camera Shop" on Burnumn Ave in Calumet City, IL. I remenber a single engine P-38 profile & a Focker D-VII. The Focker was really nice when I finished it but my 22 year old brother (I was 15) insisted on the maiden flight. He did a wing over on the first go-round & put it straight in on blacktop in the school yard.
Bruce
#157
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Akron,
OH
Posts: 394
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Cox P-40 that made it about 2 laps before I piled it in. THEN i went the pt-19 route! Between my brother and I we had a bunch of those cox planes. P-40, pt-19, "Invasion stripe" Mustang, Super Sport, Me 109 stunter, F-8 crusader, are the ones that I can remember. I also built the sterling beginners Eindecker after the pt-19. After we got better we built combat kittens, and the CG lil Toot. Built a sig akromaster with a medallion .15 for power, then we moved up to r/c !
Back in college, some fraternity bros and I were talking about the fun we had with those cox planes and made a trip down to Toys-r-us and picked up a few planes. We had a ball with then all summer long.
I have a sterling beginners sterling bipe down in the basement that I picked up shortly after estes bought them, maybe its time to pass on the madness to the kids...
ZIp
Back in college, some fraternity bros and I were talking about the fun we had with those cox planes and made a trip down to Toys-r-us and picked up a few planes. We had a ball with then all summer long.
I have a sterling beginners sterling bipe down in the basement that I picked up shortly after estes bought them, maybe its time to pass on the madness to the kids...
ZIp
#158
Actually I started out with "ARF" chuck gliders at age 5, the Guillow, Testor, Pacific Ace and etc. Then graduated to rubber powered PA Skeeter landing gear-less all balsa "ARFs" (I call them "ARFs" because one had to separate the wings from the balsa sheet and assemble them.) Then to the Sleek Streak ROG's with wheels and a few larger ROG's.
Also put together North Pacific "ARF" diamond layout 2 stick kites in paper that required a tail. They were $0.10 and shortly after $0.15 in 1965. String was $0.10 per roll. They were in various light pastel colors of blue, green, purple, red, yellow, orange, brown and etc. They also had printed in black ink drawings of real aircraft such as the F-86, F-85, F-80, B-47 jet planes on them, none of the sissy stuff we see now on kites.
So yes, as kids we had "ARFs", LOL.
Then in high school I flew several Cox RTF's, but they were one shot devices. A half loop later with engine screaming ended in an NTSB worthy crash site scene. If there was a plastic pilot, he died in the crash.
But I started out in RC as kit builds. There weren't many ARF's then in the 1970's and those available were expensive and not that great.
Also put together North Pacific "ARF" diamond layout 2 stick kites in paper that required a tail. They were $0.10 and shortly after $0.15 in 1965. String was $0.10 per roll. They were in various light pastel colors of blue, green, purple, red, yellow, orange, brown and etc. They also had printed in black ink drawings of real aircraft such as the F-86, F-85, F-80, B-47 jet planes on them, none of the sissy stuff we see now on kites.
So yes, as kids we had "ARFs", LOL.
Then in high school I flew several Cox RTF's, but they were one shot devices. A half loop later with engine screaming ended in an NTSB worthy crash site scene. If there was a plastic pilot, he died in the crash.
But I started out in RC as kit builds. There weren't many ARF's then in the 1970's and those available were expensive and not that great.
#159
#160
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: N.Canton,
OH
Posts: 22
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
First control plane - Testor's Cosmic Wind - No luck, couldn't keep engine running. In hind sight, probably had bad fuel, but I spun that prop all night trying to get it started!
First control line plane to fly - Baby Flight Streak + Cox Black Widow. Much better luck, flew the wings off of it several times. The weak spot seemed to be the fuse breaking right behind the wing. Of course 5 minute epoxy would have it flying again as soon as the epoxy would set! I Actually cloned it several times for my brothers and myself before building a bigger .15 sized Midwest mustang with an Enya .15.
Latest control line plane - Brodak Pathfinder + LA46. Great setup!
First control line plane to fly - Baby Flight Streak + Cox Black Widow. Much better luck, flew the wings off of it several times. The weak spot seemed to be the fuse breaking right behind the wing. Of course 5 minute epoxy would have it flying again as soon as the epoxy would set! I Actually cloned it several times for my brothers and myself before building a bigger .15 sized Midwest mustang with an Enya .15.
Latest control line plane - Brodak Pathfinder + LA46. Great setup!
#163
My Feedback: (1)
Comet Rookie, McCoy .35 in 1959. Five year olds don't fly very long. Built a rubber powered model 3 or 4 years later, then a Scientific Mustang with a Cox RR1. Ten year olds fly fine, but every flying session ended with the motor knocked off. Epoxy would have helped. After a couple years moved back into the big stuff with a Veco Warrior, Goldberg Shoestring, and a number of Midwest Magician, both .35 and .15 sizes, and was building a Super Ringmaster when the Falcon 56 got on the building board. Never finished the Ringmaster.
#164
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: N.Canton,
OH
Posts: 22
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
The Midwest Mustang flew OK with the Enya .15. It was not overpowered, but I think that the plane came out heavy because of the wing covering I used. Also, I was 14 at the time, and not great at trimming a plane. If interested I could weigh it to see where it's at (I still have everything hanging downstairs!), which is something I never have done.
I later used the same engine on a much lighter (and larger) Aldrich Peacemaker, and it flew great. So, today I think I would still use the Enya, but get better results.
I later used the same engine on a much lighter (and larger) Aldrich Peacemaker, and it flew great. So, today I think I would still use the Enya, but get better results.