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Blue Miss America
Mudhen Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:37 pm
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Re: Blue Miss America
Jason_WI Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:59 pm
Nice find. I’ll have to keep and eye out for this. I’m still missing a blue backplate in my collection.
I do have 3 of those .020 tanks with the never went into production reed holder. They all came from the .020 cars with the heavy crankshaft so it seems these were in production for a little while.
I do have 3 of those .020 tanks with the never went into production reed holder. They all came from the .020 cars with the heavy crankshaft so it seems these were in production for a little while.
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Re: Blue Miss America
Mudhen Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:10 pm
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Re: Blue Miss America
rsv1cox Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:23 pm
Let me play CNN here.
But Mud, it has a bent prop.
But Mud, it has a bent prop.
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Re: Blue Miss America
davidll1984 Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:06 pm
y have bleu yelow red black engine mount not same size plane lost destroyed stil have back plate lot of 3 buried somwere in cox and guilow plane used 1 bleu timbledrome engine mount to mount on foom plane converted rc . mebe same materiel for back plate reed valve?
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Re: Blue Miss America
Mark Boesen Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:55 pm
rsv1cox wrote:Let me play CNN here.
But Mud, it has a bent prop.
LOL, OUCH!!!!!
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Re: Blue Miss America
getback Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:18 am
That is a Beautiful Miss America !! I Have one of those blue plates somewhere LOL I think i had ask about it awhile back and was told it came from this plane , Good Deal Mudhen !! 
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Re: Blue Miss America
Mudhen Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:22 am
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Re: Blue Miss America
rsv1cox Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:43 am
Mudhen wrote:I'm not sure if you're referring to the back plate, or engine mount, (firewall). Back plates were molded from Celcon or Delrin, and came in a variety of colors. Cox also experimented with different blends. The firewall or engine mounts were molded from polystyrene or propylene and usually matched the colors of the model.davidll1984 wrote:...mebe same materiel for back plate reed valve?If I were responding to CNN, I'd reply...rsv1cox wrote:Let me play CNN here. But Mud, it has a bent prop.
"It figures you'd miss the forest for the trees. Try coding!!!"
Admin. We need an emoji showing a "mike drop" moment. Then insert it after my response to CNN.
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Re: Blue Miss America
balogh Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:55 am
You may want to read the bottom and top right on page 49 of Dan Sitter's Cox Model Engine Handbook, strangely stating the blue backplate never went into production..so Mudhen must have something of a rarity with that engine!
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Re: Blue Miss America
Jason_WI Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:04 pm
Mud,
Thanks for the pic. I never took mine apart to see that it was just turned down. Makes sense it was added as a thrust plate on the car. I do have 3 of them.
Jason
Thanks for the pic. I never took mine apart to see that it was just turned down. Makes sense it was added as a thrust plate on the car. I do have 3 of them.
Jason
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Re: Blue Miss America
Mudhen Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:16 pm
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Re: Blue Miss America
Dave P. Wed Apr 01, 2020 9:14 pm
That's the one Cox airplane I really wanted but never got. I suppose because it's sort of a mix of Cox, air racing and Evel Knievel. Very cool, Mud. Thanks for sharing your good fortune! And for sharing your extensive knowledge. It really is most appreciated.
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Re: Blue Miss America
balogh Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:03 am
Mudhen wrote:
I’m not sure when the Miss America was discontinued, but the blue backplate came somewhere between 11/72, and 1/75.
Pretty cool for $125.00
Beautiful restoration, congrats. I found in the COX models database of Martin Happerle
that Miss America was produced sporadically in 1971-72, 1972-75, and 1990-91, but the last production run had wire landing gears and engine placed upright. . So yours is dated between 1972....75 i.e. from the 2nd production run.
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Re: Blue Miss America
rsv1cox Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:09 am
I agree Mud - Way cool. Beautiful model and a nice restoration.
Looks like it might have rested on one blade of the propeller but the rest of the airplane looks straight. I imagine you replaced it with an identical prop. I have sworn off plastic airplanes, but had I noticed it I might have given you some competition. Love the P-51 models.
Bob
Looks like it might have rested on one blade of the propeller but the rest of the airplane looks straight. I imagine you replaced it with an identical prop. I have sworn off plastic airplanes, but had I noticed it I might have given you some competition. Love the P-51 models.
Bob
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