Cox .020 Engines

nitroairplane wrote:I learned never to under estimate on a frog 100 diesel when hand starting that thing bit me pretty good now I usually wear a glove flick starting anything larger than a .049.

gcb wrote:

nitroairplane wrote:I learned never to under estimate on a frog 100 diesel when hand starting that thing bit me pretty good now I usually wear a glove flick starting anything larger than a .049.

When I learned to run diesels in the mid/late nineteen fifties I used a glove with my 2.5cc diesels. The still kicked the dickens out of my hands...lotsa cuts. Wore out one glove, used the other glove on the wrong hand to finish up the pair. Had a Frog 2.49, Webra Mk-1. Also had the Supertigre G-30 (or was it G-33 - 2.5) and the G31 (1.5), the BB ones with the intake in the rear. All were excellent engines.

George

nitroairplane wrote:

SuperDave wrote:Don't underestimate the Pee Wee! Remember "Little Toot" the railroad engine? ("I think I can. I think I can".)

SuperDave

Don't believe i do what was it?

SuperDave wrote:Don't underestimate the Pee Wee! Remember "Little Toot" the railroad engine? ("I think I can. I think I can".)

SuperDave

microflitedude wrote:

RknRusty wrote:

microflitedude wrote:

I think that was my favorite book when I was too young to know how to read. The Little Engine that Could is the title I recall.

Admin wrote:

RknRusty wrote:

microflitedude wrote:

I think that was my favorite book when I was too young to know how to read. The Little Engine that Could is the title I recall.

I was just thinking that too! If I can remember, little toot was a steam/tug boat!

SuperDave wrote:What GREAT days of innocence those were! THEN our perspectives broadened.

I still have a Jim Walker glider with folding wings. With wings folded it was launced using a large rubber band on stick. It rose and as it slowed the wings extended to allow it to glide to the ground.

And now, over 60 years later, I'm still messing with airplanes.

SuperDave

nitroairplane wrote:[I remember "Thomas the tank engine" in England we grew up with him.

gcb wrote:

nitroairplane wrote:[I remember "Thomas the tank engine" in England we grew up with him.

Many of the "Thomas" videos were narrated by George Carlin.

George

gcb wrote:I was in my LHS shortly after the first batch of Pee Wee .020's arrived in my home town (Lexington, KY) back in the fifties. I snapped one up and quickly built a CL plane for it...which, of course brings up a story:
Having never run one, I totally underestimated its power. The plane had a 12" wingspan and a built-up box fuselage. I was running about 8' of dacron 1/2A line. The props had not yet arrived so I carved down a wooden 5x3.
Started the engine and, since I was alone, held the plane in my right hand and the lines and handle in my left, and launched. It didn't take long to realize that there was MUCH more power there than I had estimated. Turned as fast as I could but it proceeded to wrap the lines around me with the flight terminating when the prop hit my leg. I thought, STUPID,STUPID,STUPID...but fun! I still have that Pee Wee .020 engine, plus a couple of others I have acquired since then.
I never scored a TD .020 though, wish I had.

What is your experience with the Cox .020's?

George

SuperDave wrote:[ i learned the pee wee way.

SuperDave wrote:

I still have a Jim Walker glider with folding wings. With wings folded it was launced using a large rubber band on stick. It rose and as it slowed the wings extended to allow it to glide to the ground.

And now, over 60 years later, I'm still messing with airplanes.

SuperDave

Cz10 wrote:Is it me, or does anybody see enough difference in the text of the words The Interceptor in my post above that indicates it is a hyper link? I am viewing on an iPad, but I would think a few others are too. I see very little difference - just slightly darker, but it certainly doesn't stand out.