Still runs after 25 years

Here is a yellow one. Notice how the 049 attaches to the clear plastic, well that clear plastic was so brittle it fell apart, so we junked the plane. Mine came with a red spinner though.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/877-Cox-Thimble-Drome-5200-Yellow-Cub-105-New-/160671907146?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2568cabd4a#ht_5200wt_1398

Wow can't have been very safe then

I was going to put the original prop on for the videos. After I installed it, I flicked it once and one blade went flying, glad it didn't start, that could of hurt.

Can't remember who but someone here got hit in a certain "place" with a prop blade but did not suffer any serious injury

1957 Super Cub 105
Cat# 5200
Babe Bee .049

Per that wiki page, that sounds about right.

Going by that picture, it looks like I changed the cylinder and maybe the piston (but they all look the same). I know when I first got it, I replaced the needle valve to even get it running. Maybe I'll just buy another 049 and return this one back to stock.

TailSpin74 wrote:If I remember correctly, thinking back to the mid-late 80s, there also was another version (before the surestart style) that adjusted the air intake from behind the motor mount. It used a cone shape plunger.

The only reason why I remember that is when I bought the throttle collar, the LHS talked me into the collar over the air intake version.

I think I may know what you're talking about. It sat inside the venturi - you had to remove the screen. Response wasn't great.

nitroairplane wrote:Can't remember who but someone here got hit in a certain "place" with a prop blade but did not suffer any serious injury

Had a little run-in with a RC Gmark .061 that came loose on the mount. I spotted it loosening up and just about that instant I pulled back and closed the throttle, and in doing so pulled the now loose and still spun up motor back onto my hand. That Master Airscrew prop just brushed my finger,,just flicked it lightly a couple times,,thats all it took. Check your equipm out good before you put fire to it.

I was at a Pylon race and watched a race motor at full sing climb right up a guys forearm,,sliceing it like deli meat. The ambulamp was called and he was whisked away.

Be carefull.

Reminds me of another story....

Here is my Snark 20T in the early 1990s...


(~1995) I had a Snark 20T at the time that had a 15 size motor. I had my girlfriend and a buddy over and I decided I wanted to try and fly it again (never did fly it till many years later, but that's another story). Well, I thought I would take a shortcut and reach over the prop to adjust the needle valve.... What happens when the engine starts running better? Yep, it ran like a top right into the underside of my forearm and cut the heck out of it. Darn near made me sick to my stomach. 1000s of cuts in a 1.5" square patch, looked like yellow/purple hamburger, didn't bleed for 10 minutes I'm guessing. I still have that scar today...

Same plane, but later that year... Took it up to the local field to see if someone would teach me to fly it and show me what I was doing wrong with the motor, as it would never have enough thrust to get off the ground. Well 5 or so of us gathered around as one of the guys got the engine running and tuned. Well, 30 seconds into it, the prop shaft broke in half (where the intake runs through the center) and the prop launched and bounced. To this day, I can't believe it didn't hit one of us that was standing around.

What the heck... "And now the rest of the story"
Sold the plane to that same buddy and he bought an OS15 for it, but never installed it. I traded a Kyosho MK1 motorcycle for it back, in the late 90s. I put it back together and tried to fly it again. This time it took off, I did a nice turn to my right and flew over the power lines above me. As I turned left and it headed back towards me I got dumb thumbs and and couldn't figure it out, cut the throttle and crashed it. Didn't hurt it bad, it was the first and last flight I had with it. I sold it on eBay in the early 2000s.

TailSpin74 wrote:

nitroairplane wrote:I have never seen or heard of one of those. Do you have a picture?

Only in my head It has been ~25 years LOL.

I've got one that was sold by ACE a long time ago. Still got the backplate, but have lost the needle...the search begins...this might be a fun test if I can find or make the missing part.

TailSpin74 wrote:1957 Super Cub 105
Cat# 5200
Babe Bee .049

Per that wiki page, that sounds about right.

Going by that picture, it looks like I changed the cylinder and maybe the piston (but they all look the same). I know when I first got it, I replaced the needle valve to even get it running. Maybe I'll just buy another 049 and return this one back to stock.

I may be wrong, it may be the Super Cub 150. I don't remember if the motor was right-side-up or not.

Kim wrote:

TailSpin74 wrote:

nitroairplane wrote:I have never seen or heard of one of those. Do you have a picture?

Only in my head It has been ~25 years LOL.

I've got one that was sold by ACE a long time ago. Still got the backplate, but have lost the needle...the search begins...this might be a fun test if I can find or make the missing part.

I think that's it, the logo looks familiar too.

[quote="TailSpin74"]

Kim wrote:

TailSpin74 wrote:

nitroairplane wrote:I have never seen or heard of one of those. Do you have a picture?

Only in my head It has been ~25 years LOL.

I've got one that was sold by ACE a long time ago. Still got the backplate, but have lost the needle...the search begins...this might be a fun test if I can find or make the missing part.

I think that's it, the logo looks familiar too.[/quote

That thing looks great and they look rather easy to make too.

Kim wrote:Gonna be a NEW noise on The Hill !!!!

Kim, is that the "Hill" in St. Louis? I'm just across the river in Waterloo. I bought the throttle at Checkered Flag in SoCo when it was by the SoCo mall. I think the store is now a golf shop or mattress shop.

I live in a undeveloped subdivision. They provided me with a 300' concrete runway behind my house (just as long as no one builds for awhile).

I think I've decided to buy a new 049 and restore this one as it was my late uncle's when he was a kid.

Here it is with the original cylinder.


Here is what it looks like in the dark running, you can see the glow of the combustion from the exhaust port.

TailSpinTravis wrote:

Kim wrote:Gonna be a NEW noise on The Hill !!!!

Kim, is that the "Hill" in St. Louis? I'm just across the river in Waterloo. I bought the throttle at Checkered Flag in SoCo when it was by the SoCo mall. I think the store is now a golf shop or mattress shop.

Hey Tailspin,

No, I live out in the country, west of Jackson, Missouri...'bout a hundred miles south of St.Louis. It's actually a ridge, but the "Hill" thing was started by a friend of mine who lives in the subdivision on the next ridge a 1/4 mile away. When he was showing a neighbor some photos I'd taken of his house on one of my "Reconnaissance Missions", they asked, "Oh that Model Airplane Guy" over on The Hill....TAKES PHOTOS WITH THOSE PLANES ??!!!!

Yeah, miss the old hobby stores. My favorite as a kid, was "Hop Johnson's TV and Radio Sales & Repair" in Metropolis, Illinois. An old building with a tall ceiling, his adjacent Electronics Repair/Hobby Shop was chocked full of built model planes, kits, and other wonderful stuff. Still think about the Testors Ready-to-Fly R.C. Skyhawk he had parked high on a shelf! I'd still like to get one of those!

Anyway, that's where I am......

If you want some company sometime, give me a yell and I'll drag some stuff up there to fly!!!

I usually fly every Sunday morning. If you check my youtube channel, you can see where I fly.

I've got some parts ordered from CoxInternational.ca, so we'll see how it runs freshened up. Boy, this is kinda addicting

Next, I guess, I'll have to get me a tach

TailSpinTravis wrote:I've got some parts ordered from CoxInternational.ca, so we'll see how it runs freshened up. Boy, this is kinda addicting

Next, I guess, I'll have to get me a tach

I know its like being a kid again.

TailSpinTravis wrote:I've got some parts ordered from CoxInternational.ca, so we'll see how it runs freshened up. Boy, this is kinda addicting

Next, I guess, I'll have to get me a tach

You can get a decent used Tachometer for around $10-20. I just got one, well worth the investment.

TailSpinTravis wrote:I've got some parts ordered from CoxInternational.ca, so we'll see how it runs freshened up. Boy, this is kinda addicting

Next, I guess, I'll have to get me a tach

Yep...And Bernie and Matt are just two of our enablers !