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

[FAC257]

...........................but I was more into building 6-8 ft wingspan free-flight balsa and tissue paper gliders when I was a kid.

Mine was building SIG Kits for the short period I tried to get into RC flying. Loved building them but never got to the point where I could fly without crashing. My biggest was a non-SIG glider with an 8' wingspan. I ended up selling it to a local RC club.


Forest

 

[normb]

I did lots of gliders too. Two Ambroid Jetstream A1's still make me smile. They flew so well. A few RC's too. And a couple Zaic (6ft) free flights. Good times.

 

[Tako_Kichi]

Apparently you can still get free plans for the Jetstream A/1online!

Oz : Jetstream plan - free download

outerzone.co.uk

 

[normb]

Thanks for the info!

 

[Tako_Kichi]

OOOOHHH! That site I linked to above is a goldmine of info once you start digging! I found this beauty .......

Oz : Tandem Tutor T-31 plan - free download

outerzone.co.uk

....... which is the type I did my full size glider flying course in as a teenager and which I built as a FSX/P3D model but never publicly released!

 

[normb]

Open cockpit no less! I learned on Schweizers with canopies. You might want to check out Wolfgang Piper's FS9/FSX & on glider site. He covers lots of eras.

www.fsglider.de

 

[Tako_Kichi]

Open cockpit no less!

I took my gliding course in January with snow squalls and below freezing temperatures! It was damn cold I tell ya and I climbed out of the cockpit after one flight looking like a snowman I has so much snow on me!

I learned on Schweizers with canopies. You might want to check out Wolfgang Piper's FS9/FSX & on glider site. He covers lots of eras.

www.fsglider.de

I've downloaded a lot of stuff from Wolfgang's site over the years.

 

[jgf]

I had the P-40.

Same here, got it for my birthday in '63 or '64. Must have spun around 10000 times in my backyard ...and my mother hated the sound of it.

 

[Wing_Z]

I had a COX Supermarine Spitfire with the .049 engine, also... a Curtiss P-40 with same. All control line models

Yes! But in reverse order... the Spit was pale blue as I recall, and a sad day it was when a neighbouring kid tried a wingover, got slack lines and ran for cover.
The P-40 was labelled Warhawk and see! it lives on in the sim 60 years later.

 

[Blackbird686]

Yes! But in reverse order... the Spit was pale blue as I recall,

Mine was the pale "Fleet Air Arm" green, much like how the Hawker Sea Fury 11 was painted. Funny, my ,049 Spitfire met pretty much the same fate when a friend of mine tried to loop it.