Follow Rusty's Memorial Traveling Engines!

The Traveling Engines arrived this afternoon safely and securely. Thanks, Kim! I have already mounted the RR-1 and the .020 engines on planes. I'll mount the Fox tomorrow on a plane. I hope to be able to fly the planes on Monday or Wednesday. I won't be able to match Kim's posts, but I'll give it my best shot.

Also, just wondering what we call these .020 engines with the printed backplate. Are they still a PeeWee? A Product .020? A CEF Special?

The Unsure Mark

Kim, is that a Cox handle your flying with? I pulled mine out a little while back because I had my .020 lines on it. Mine cracked in my hand. That was a green one similar to what you look like your flying with. I have another peach colored one with swirls in it that seems intact, I just haven't got around to switching it over yet.

Very Nice Kim , you nailed a lot of flights and took the engines on a journey to top it off . Heck you were making me tired just hearing you hauling and mounting and of coarse Fling !! Looks / Sounds like you had some really good fun and that's what Rusty would have wanted

Ken Cook wrote:Kim, is that a Cox handle your flying with? I pulled mine out a little while back because I had my .020 lines on it. Mine cracked in my hand. That was a green one similar to what you look like your flying with. I have another peach colored one with swirls in it that seems intact, I just haven't got around to switching it over yet.

Yeah, I've a couple that got retired due to cracking a the top and bottom cross sections. This one must have spent most of its life tucked away from the sun, 'cause it seems to be in good shape. I've got some home made handles, cut from cheap ply and layered with old fiberglass and epoxy, but haven't put many of them to use yet.

getback wrote:Very Nice Kim , you nailed a lot of flights and took the engines on a journey to top it off . Heck you were making me tired just hearing you hauling and mounting and of coarse Fling !! Looks / Sounds like you had some really good fun and that's what Rusty would have wanted

Thanks Eric!
Yeah, it was a good time...figure Rusty might approve...or maybe shake his head at all the fuss!
Good remembering our ole bud.

Amazing pictures! I'm glad to see all the engines got some time in the air and they gave you minimal trouble. I don't know why I didn't try a 5x3 on the RR-1 as that is usually my go-to prop. It looks like everyone had a great time.

This one is my favorite. Thank you Kim for doing those engines justice. Keep that Fox running guys! It will eventually loosen up. It’s a golden goose, it just needs breaking in.

Thank You Guys.

Great story and photos to accompany it. As stated above, Rusty was probably looking down smiling at the engines running.

Sorry to take so long to get these videos out.  Been laid up  with my back, but I finally got out to fly yesterday.  Here is the video of Rusty’s Travelling Engines flying.  My son and I went out to Walker Memorial Field at Delta Park to get some flights in.  I also hoped to get a few of the other members at the field who knew Rusty through Stun Hangar to fly also, but a couple of them were clockwise flyers, one had balance issues, and one said he couldn’t fly on the uneven grass.  So only a couple got to fly the engines.  One was the club hotshot, Jim Cameron, who flies and evaluates most people’s planes, and one was Gary Harris, a combat flyer.

Here is the Travelling Fox:





And the Travelling PeeWee/RR-1:




I’ll post more pics soon.  The engines are clean up and ready to go, and I’ll pack them up to ship off to Long Island as soon as the book and USB stick are updated.

The Slow Mark

Way to spread the Love Mark , good you could get some more people to come out with you and your son to fly the engines . That Pee Wee was really hauling the mail !! To fast for me LOL All seemed to run pretty well , But i did notice the Hiccup in the Fox when overhead but just kept charging on . Look to bee a nice day for fling and ya'll had some good times and a time the think of our bud Rusty .

You rock Mark! Hope your back feels better soon.

Holy smokes that peewee rips, nice work staying vertical. Awesome flights all around, congrats on the .35 maiden. Enjoyed watching.

My god just to watch it's make me dizzy I know how you could have stayed up all this time me, impossible, will be collapsed on the ground like for the plane i Have a good fun to watch

Sorry to take so long for the update.  I was laid out for a while.  Here are the pictures of the engines mounted on planes and at the field.




I was originally going to mount the PeeWee on my L’il Gem , but then remembered that I built a PeeWee powered Ringmaster for the last Fly-A-Thon that never got flown.  So that’s what the PeeWee went on.





The RR-1 went on my Ambush.  Irony, that.  A Cox engine on a Testors plane…





And the Fox went on a Fight streak.  Fitting period plane for the engine.  It started off as a Flite Streak ARF, but after a crash I rebuilt it with a solid fuselage and motor mount for a Magnum 30XLS 4-stroke engine.  Obviously the Fox is MUCH lighter.  So I had to add some weight…






To fly the Cox engines, I broke out my last fresh bottle of fuel.  *** Sigh ***  Brodak 25%.  The Fox got SIG 10% nitro, 25% full castor fuel.




We flew at Walker Memorial Field, dedicated to Jim Walker, Father of control line flying.




I tried to get more people flying, but only was able to rope my son and a couple of others.  Here’s Jim Cameron, long time flyer and star of the previous videos:




And this is Gary Harris, as seen in the Ambush video:





It was such a great honor (and terrible responsibility) to get to fly and share Rusty’s engines.  And now I get to pass them on to Bob and other CEF members to enjoy.

The Honored Mark

Looks like you had an awesome time Mark. Great videos and pictures too.

Wanted to bump this back to the top, to make sure members get a chance to check out Mark's Excellent Expo of our immortal bud's Memorial Engines.

Stuff like this is the very fabric of Jacob's Forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check 'em Out and throw the boy a Greenie!!!!