The Death of America's Airplane Model Empire: The Abandoned Cox Models Factory

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This was posted 5 days ago on YouTube,

I hope this will maybe strike a chord with some.
It is over an hour long so maybe you can watch 1/2 now and come back this evening and watch the rest of the video.
I'm sure all of us older guys had one of these RC aircraft.
We had a Corsair.
On a cold day, my twin brother and I were at a baseball park across the street from our grandmother's house, along with our older brother, and he let me wear his Army jacket.
I remember putting my hands into the pockets to keep them warm. There was a little bag in a pocket that my older brother told me "It's oregano, Granny wanted to borrow from our mom" I never doubted that this was the truth.
We were there to fly that gas powered Corsair on that 50 ft. cord.

Man, it's tough starting a business with your passionate idea/creation and have it all crumble to pieces.

- Don

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

For me, it was hours and hours spinning with my florescent green Pitts Special on the end of the wire.
Sad demise to a great company and it's people.
They exemplified what was good about the hobby.

 

[Willy]

I had the P-40. When I got into my late teens, I let my little brothers have it. Last anyone saw of it, they'd cut the control lines and set it off flying towards some heavily wooded hills.

 

[michaelvader]

Hallo I had the control line Mustung. I was at the beginning of a nice hobby
And how much of their fine engines helped sailplanes to win some altitude
And it was possible to convert the bigger Guillows balsa planes to circular flying by using the little Cox engines
Yes Cox did furnish a lot fun
Thanks to them

Best regards

Michael

 

[lucb]

The Sopwitch Camel was mine Cox

 

[Tako_Kichi]

I had a Cox glow plug engine on a control line plane as a kid in the UK in the late 60s and early 70s. I used to build free flight balsa and tissue paper gliders too with the biggest one having a 6.5 foot wingspan!

In later years I had a Cox water-cooled engine in a RC Cigarette powerboat too!

Happy days!