He gave us some of the cars, too. I seem to recall a white McClaren among others. Never quite figured the cars out. You had to set up either a straight line or have them run in a circle. If you didn't have perfectly flat ground they tended to bounce and fly around.
> On Nov 11, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Rich Thomas > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I still have my Cox Navy trainer (I forget the number) in a box somewhere, > along with a coupla cars. > > --R > > >> On 11/11/13 11:22 AM, Dan Penoff wrote: >> My sister had a boyfriend who gave my brother and I his "old" Cox two cycle >> airplanes. >> >> I took the PT-19 with the rubber bands that held it together. My brother got >> a Stuka dive bomber. >> >> I flew the PT-19 all the time. Fly it into the ground? Boom! Parts separate >> and you just put them back together, maybe break a rubber band at worst. >> >> My brother was afraid to fly the Stuka, fearing that he might crash and >> destroy it. >> >> After he had watched me fly (and crash) the PT-19 for several months I >> finally convinced him to let me try and fly the Stuka. >> >> We set it up, get it running, and off it goes into the air with me on the >> controls. About a minute into the flight, one of the control lines breaks >> and it lives up to it's namesake and dives directly into the ground. The >> results were not pretty. >> >> Fortunately, my flying skills were not at fault, since there was nothing I >> could do to recover with no controls. >> >> And just to clarify, these were the Cox brand planes that you flew in a >> circle with the control lines. Made you dizzy as heck until you got used to >> them... >> >> Dan >> >>>> On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Craig <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:32:17 -0500 Dan Penoff <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I do recall the little stationary steam engines that ran off an alcohol >>>> burner. Always wanted one of them. >>> I had one. I think we used fuel pellets in it, too. >>> >>> >>>> I'll bet a lot of people here built models. I built a lot of planes... >>> Yup, and missiles and tanks, too. I also built balsa/plywood/fabric model >>> airplanes and flew them, both control-line and R/C types. >>> >>> >>> Craig >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
