What was your first engine?
 

The first glow engine post got me thinking of my first ever glow engine. It was a cox .020 in a small control line biplane circa 1972...
It was my first real internal combustion engine and it was all mine! It even ran sometimes! I also remember looking at "big" Fox motors at the local hobby shop and drooling all over them. They were, (with plane and radio) about the equivelant of $1,000,000 to an eleven year old kid.
Anyway, what was your first love? Ross

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In 1951 my dad bought a K&B 19 silver head and a all silver McCoy 29 Stunt. He never used them and so I had them for some six years before I graduated from the 049 Cubs & Babe Bee's to the big stuff. Used the McCoy on a Sterling Ring Master for about 3 years before crashing it.. The 19 was on several planes including a Veco Brave (Papose?) that was one of my favorites

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Mine was a K&B .40 (non schneurle) in a Goldberg Falcon 56 both bought from Tower circa 1981.

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I did the cheap control line stuff back in the 60's, then took the engine along with the prop and mouted it on the back of a big plastic fire truck. Went like and SOB and out of control but sure was fun to watch.

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My first glow engine was a McCoy .36 I got for Christmas in 1956, I bought myself a McCoy .35 and a Spitfire .049 the next year, I still have all three. My first RC engine was an Enya .46 MKII fourstroke, I still have it as well.

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My first engine was an ETA 29 Mk IV back in about '57 as best I can remember. I spent hours and hours trying to get it to start and I still remember the excitement I felt when I heard it pop every so often. I think that honed my hand starting skills :). It needed new rings so I called into the local hobby shop after school and bought a pair but I couldn't get the piston back in the liner. That's when I found out about ring gaps...if you don't have them then it won't go back in :). Back to the hobby shop but take the liner with me this time. I fitted the rings without breaking them which surprised my mentor (meaning the guy down the street that I'd bought the engine from) and from then on things were pretty much plain sailing.

There were 3 of us all learning together and we were all about 14 years old. So there's me with my ETA 29, one with a McCoy 29 RR and another with a Dooling 29. To us at the time they were just engines.....

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Mine was a Sabre 1.5cc Diesel (I can't remember for sure but I think it was made by Davis Craig - anodised red head and a spring starting mechanism that never did work) in a Taipan Control line trainer (Solid wood wing) in 1967. Got my first Glow engine n 1968 - OS 2.5cc C/L unit (not sure of the model) and thought I was just the "Bees Knees" with such a large engine.

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My first was .049 in a Cox control line corsair circa 1975. Fun, yes. Look back and say WOW boring stuff going around in circles.

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A testors .049 in a bright orange plastic p-51 back in the mid 70's. I bought a few of those display box testors and cox plastic planes with the money I earned from my first paper route. Those planes were about $10 each and all of them flew like crap. Heavy and underpowered. It was'nt until I discovered the balsa u-control .049 kits, and the tee-dee, black widow, and baby bee engines, that I began to understand what a good plane should fly like.:D

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Mine was a cub 049 in about 1952 which I got to run once. Then bought a Cameron 19 and learned to fly control line in the summer of 1953.

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Mine was a McCoy 19 used on a fawker d7 u-control...I loved to hear it run...kept it for 7 yrs and with no compression that dude would still screem.

Pappy

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TT Pro .46 on my first LT-40 back in June of 1998.

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First "running" engine - Brown D, then Atwood Champ, Mighty Atom, Ohlsson 19, Ohlsson 60, etc., etc., etc........

Great Fun!

Phil

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Fokker?

Phil

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Wow, you go way back!

Sorry, I could'nt resist, what with all the old-timers around here:D

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My first engine was a Cox .049 in a Bushmaster (red and white Super Cub, that came with wheels, floats and skis ) in 1972...
A year later, my mom got me my first "big" engine...a McCoy .29 series 21 for Christmas, for my Goldberg Shoestring stunter.
A year after that, my first R/C engine was an Enya .29 IV-TV that went in a Falcon 56.

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My first was a Wen Mac 049 with a pull start on a Thunder Jet plastic plane in 1956. The plane and engine are long gone, but I have a copy of the engine in my collection.

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My first engine was a O&R .19 I received for Christmas in 1947 at the tender age of 12. Also received a kit called the Baby Miss Behave. The engine was a sparker and ran great on an old apple box test stand, however it would not run on the pencells. Did not fly it, untill that wonderfull thing called a glow plug came out. Next engine was a screamer called a Bullet. My first airplne to fly was a Monogram Piper Cub using the O&R 19. It was a winter night with bright moonlight so my younger brother and I decided to try some night flying. I made about one and half circles over controlling in a galluping flight, and eventually hit the ground. That was my last attempt at night flying! Great memories tho. Logair

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My first was an Enya 09 c/l engine about 1972-73 ? ,I still have.

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My first engine was a Cox .049. It was in the P-40 I bought with money made mowing lawns all summer in 1968. That beautiful P-40 did not last long. Maybe 2 laps and it made impact. I've never forgot the thrill of flying or the dispair of crashing. After wiping out a few more Cox RTF's I learned about the 1/2a profile c/l kits. It was not long before my Baby Bee's were on a model that could really fly.

My first BIG engine came several years later. It was a Fox 15 and I could not believe it was mine! After many flights and many planes I still have that engine. It has been a year since it ran and now that I think about it it has been on the shelf to long. I'm going to go crank it up and wake up all the neighbors! Yee Haaaaa!

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my first one where a G-mark .030 rc, then I moved up to the big cannons and got the G-mark .061 and I thought I had reached the limit when I got an OS 1.8 ccm ( .11 or something)[sm=bananahead.gif]

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My first glow model airplane engine was mounted in the nose of a Wen-Mac RTF plastic control line Corsair that my parents gave me for Christmas at age 11 or so. I learned how to fly control line with that model.

The engine in my Corsair was a pre Mark IV model and was a bear to start, plus my inexperience did not help any. But at that time I had learned how to start friends' OK Cubs and Cox engines. My Wen-Mac was something of an exception to the rules, for some reason.

Then on a following Christmas or two later, my parents gave me a RTF plastic control line P-38 with TWO WEN-MAC engines!!! Not to worry. It turned out that these Wen-Mac engines were Mark IV versions and they started and ran beautifully. That or I finally learned how to start a Wen-Mac. I guess I'll never know the truth. <G>


Ed Cregger

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this takes me back...but my first engine was a Cox .049 I think it was called a black widow( not really sure on that), but it was the mid 70's , it was on a spitfire model.. I really like that it was a spit because the only other more popular model of that time was the PT 19 which everyone had

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WenMac 0.049 in an Aeromite UC plastic plane in 1949.

Paul

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Cox .020 pee wee, came in a blister pack. Used it in a profile control line plane which it barely flew. Retailed price for this engine was something like $3 or $4, don't remember the exact price but it was about a buck cheaper than the .049. I saved up for weeks doing chores and mowing lawns to buy this engine.
I bought this engine and supplies from a photography studio that sold model airplane stuff as a sideline.