Thread: Of all the things my mom could have kept for me....

Seems every one we had went straight up and then straight down in pieces.

Let's give a kid something which only runs full-speed, shall we?

The instruction book is a hoot! I’ll post some pics of the best parts. They left out, “once the prop is pulled against the spring and released, the engine starts AT FULL SPEED, LOOK OUT FOR YOUR FINGERS” .

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Seems every one we had went straight up and then straight down in pieces.

Let's give a kid something which only runs full-speed, shall we?

I have a dusty one hanging in the back room at my shop from the trunk of an old junk car going to the crusher.
Big motor, no landing gear.

Buddy tells me it is a combat plane. Two operators inside the circle would try to chew a streamer off each other's plane with the prop.
As it ran out of fuel, the prop would stop level (I moved it for effect)and you would softly belly-land it.....
Yeah. Right!

He said he got kicked-out of the club for chewing the tails off the other planes.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I have a dusty one hanging in the back room at my shop from the trunk of an old junk car going to the crusher.
Big motor, no landing gear.

Buddy tells me it is a combat plane. Two operators inside the circle would try to chew a streamer off each other's plane with the prop.
As it ran out of fuel, the prop would stop level (I moved it for effect)and you would softly belly-land it.....
Yeah. Right!

He said he got kicked-out of the club for chewing the tails off the other planes.

Had one like it but mine was solid black. Still have the Veco 35C engine plus a McCoy Red Head 35, control lines, a couple of props and miscellaneous other parts.

I had one too when I was a kid.
It was a Cox Spitfire .049
I remember vividly the fuel seemed to last forever...
so did the dizziness.

Pete <:-}

You must have had the touch, Pete. I think I made it around twice before crashing...Merry Christmas!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

You must have had the touch, Pete. I think I made it around twice before crashing...Merry Christmas!

I had no touch at all.
It wasn't very long at all spinning around in a circle that I wanted to crash...an did.
A few survivable crash landings and that was it.

Merry Christmas

Pete <:-}