Cox Mini-Stunt Tuesday..."The Video" !

Got a feeling that the wind MIGHT back off a little toward sunset...OK, I felt like flying and just HOPED it'd calm down...which it did.

Passing by the PT-19, I dragged my dust-covered-run-many-times-but-never-flown Cox Mini Stunt out into the daylight.  I was a teenager the last time I'd flown one of these little biplanes, helping a local kid fly his Christmas "Red Baron" version.  Yes, it ended just like you're thinking.

Anyway, I figured it was time for this little greenie to step up, and take it's shot at glory.  Fiddling with it, I remembered why it got stuck away in the first place: it's controls had a habit of sticking with the elevator in neutral.  I tracked this down to it's pushrod, at the bellcrank end, locking against a molded brace inside the fuselage.

I pulled the plane apart and, with a deft twist of my pliers, bent the offending wire to make it miss the brace, AND reinstalled it in the bellcrank's outer hole while I was at it.

Dragging what seemed like half my shop out into the front yard to fly this tiny sucker, I finally got settled and cranked up the mighty Pee Wee.

The .020 can be cranky about it's needle setting, and I need to mess with it a bit more, or replace it with a friendlier one, but I still managed to get in several good flights.  When the Pee Wee is really going, the plane is actually fairly frisky, and I even pulled off what could be generously referred to as 'loops'.  With a hotter engine, the Mini Stunt might actually pull a decent loop and wingover.

The landings are the standard little-plane-on-grass-hit-tumble-stop affairs, but I made it through six or seven flights with just a broken prop.



Hauling at it's leash like a big dog:












The Mini Stunt pulls into it's loop.



It's pullout was rather low...