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Australian here. Yes we had Cox models and engines. My first Cox was a Corsair F4U witha .049 engine. Then had flying wings with O.S.Max and finally a blue box Top Flight Nobler with.35 Mercury. Those were the days and so lucky to be part of it like a lot of you folks.
What a great video, the era of the high speed plastic bearing cage , and young ladies shy at the thought of a camera in the face.( Never getting back to that , soak it up kids )
I am from Australia and i purchased a 2.5 COX from USA when i was14 i am 80 now had a lot of fun flying planes in those days the main problem was the fuel cost
1st job in Jr High - Rouge Hobby Shop Detroit, giving all my paycheck money back in exchange for employee discounted parts - lol Love all model aviation, but control line forever !
I owned a second-hand Cox 0.49 In the 1960s but would never have had the money for ready to fly model so I built my own from FF model out of Balsawood that aircraft now lives at the top of a tree in a wood somewhere in Kent. I never did find it should you come across it (55 years later!) happy for you to keep it.
my first ccontrol line model was a cox curtis flyer model, and was so under powered by the small cox engine that it had a hard time staying in the Air, and dad then bough the Cox P40 flyer (because he serviced the real planes during WW2). BUT it was heaven to a ya young boy, andwas such fund i still 70 years later, treasur those moments whithe tears in my eyes. would kill to find of of them again.
What a throwback!. The hobby shop depicted in the film was none other than Reginald Denny's located at the northwest corner of Hollywood Blvd and Van Ness up to about 1963 or 4, If I recall correctly. Later I believe it was sold (still retained the same name) and relocated to the northwest corner of Sunset and Western. I used to frequent the latter location pretty often which also had an enormous multiple lane slot car track with 'events' every weekend. A fascinating hobby shop with all sorts of various scale model aircraft hanging from the ceiling. Who knows how many gallons of HB glow fuel I bought there. They also had an amazing selection of balsa planes doped and solid wing and of course. I bought and asssembled Estes model rockets, had a Cox Shrike tethered high speed speed car, as well as the meyers manx dune buggy, Cox PT-19, Stuka JU87D dive bomber, I pretty much spent just about everything I earned at that hobby shop. I was a paper boy, or 'caller' (i.e. "Bobby Kennedy assassinated - read all about it!) selling newspapers at the Hollywood Ranch Market on Vine Street after school from Junior High. I saved up my dollars ($14/per week + tips back then 1967-1970). I'd earn additional bucks mowing lawns and cashing in pop bottles. I still remember the 12oz soda bottles were 3c while the larger 28 or 32's were a nickel. As an interesting aside: Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 7 PM like clockwork - a chauffeured black Cadillac sedan with tinted windows would pull up and stop in front of the stand with the right rear window cracked open about an inch or so. Frank, my paperstand owner/boss mentioned this as part of my job and he simply said, Just slide a copy of the Variety and the Racing Form into the window, it never changes and he never says anything. He'll hand you a $10 bill and never wants the change (back then, the both of them were about $3 so this was a major tip!). On X-mas it was the same routine, difference being I'd slide in the papers and instead of a $10 it was a crisp $100 bill ! - Frank finally let me in on who it was. It was none other than Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes Headquarters was at 7000 Romaine not more than 2 miles away. Anyhow great film footage and thanks...for the memories!
This was the kind of thing that was normal once upon a time. Of course now the populous laughs at this sort of thing, but I would bet each kid from this film, probably close to 65 years ago now, became successful in life. Something that society wants to destroy for some reason since we have turned our nation into a cess pool.
I wish MECOA would start producing the hay's tanks again, The 3 and 4 oz tanks were perfect for Profile control line models, nothing else better. However they have been out of stock for years. I guess I will have to be protective of my stash of Hay's tanks.
Hearing protection definitely required, I always use ear plugs when starting my engines and that's why I have no hearing loss after 55 years in the hobby. Foolish to not wear ear plugs around these engines, hearing is so precious.
What wonderful times, with a small u line plane my friends and I had fun on Saturday and Sunday mornings, today we have everything and we are not happy I'm almost 70 years old now.
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Had a P40 Warhawk, thank goodness for rubber bands to keep it together. Even figured out how to fit my sister’s troll doll into the cockpit to pilot it.
I spent countless hours flying these as a boy then countless hours later in life with two sons. My best flying was with a Guillows kit I built. Thanks for sharing this video of Cox. Brings back a lot of memories.
Back in the mid seventies my neighbor’s dad had a service station and we picked up bits and pieces of anything motor related…he got a couple cox powered trainers and we flew them in the parking lot out back….got the idea that these could run longer with bigger fuel tanks…but the spinning around finally took its toll…later we bolted a 049 to a saw horse and fed it a whole pint of fuel…the little booger ran the whole time..couldn’t hear a damn thing when we were done…we wanted to make mini lawn mowers but that never happened…
In '65 my older brother got the PT-19 Trainer for xmas and my dad flew it into my younger brothers head on its maiden flight. Made for a memorable holiday!
My dad was at an R/C event in the 70’s and commented to a friend that if Fox would polish their heads they would sell more. Little did he know the owner was standing behind him. Not long after that, Fox began offering polished heads.
Cox .049 engines and control line airplanes. Man, those were the days! I still have the tiny "cooling fin" scars on my left wrist from accidently letting my arm touch the hot cylinder head! Ouch! I and my buddy tried that "two planes at the same time stuff." My plane cut his lines and his model crashed. It still makes me laugh.
The hobby shop was everything as a kid,teenager and adult.You built things You learned things.You didn't sit endlessly in front of the boob tube or electronics.....so sad
I was born in 1964 my dad was competitive control line builder and flyer and by the time I was 8 years old in 1972 I got my first PT-19 trainer plane from Cox . I feel in love with the hobby. Although I got into RC and Free-Flite I always came back to control-line flying. But being specific to this video, I still have in new condition 12 of the cox ready-to fly models. P-51 mustang, Stuka Dive bomber, P-40 Warhawk, and many others. I still fly them from time to time. Always reliving my childhood. Oh what fun it was…. 😊
Control line 0.49 should come with a warning label. "Caution gateway drug" I'm in my 60s and still do it occasionally. The gateway part is all the $ I've spent crashing RC. Let's face it, you fly every plane to destruction then build two new ones.
