"Survivor Showcase"

Cribbs74 wrote:Bob,

I am not seeing a Ringmaster Jr. I see 2 baby Ringmasters. Am I missing something?

No your not.  

I must have been combining Space Bug Jr.'s.

My current fleet of COX powered RC birds...almost all in active service..as my Status near my avatar describes, these are the examples of my efforts to build, fly and retain at least one lasting RC plane for all the COX calibers I have in 010,020,049,09 sizes...except for 2 larger planes not pictured here, i.e. the Denight 50 and Acro Won, both powered by  4-stroker OS Max 56 FS alpha engines, I do not really build and fly planes with other power plants than COX..

What a wonderful collection. I bet each one has a special story to tell!! Thanks for sharing.

Nice Andras, I followed a couple of those builds and flights but must have missed the red Das Little Stick look alike.

I admire your dedication to Cox and visits to their old buildings.

No really old builds, or didn't you save them?

Bob

Thank you - if you meant my collection - these are all very important planes. I built them all in rather rudimentary conditions (on the kitchen platform making bargains with my wife ). Then maidened them and taught them to fly ..always with the engines and their performance in the focus of my main interest...something to do with my childhood when COX stuff was more dreams than reality for me.. Some of the planes - the most active ones- have already gone through some overhauls to mend the battleground scars inflicted on them while flying in unkempt fields...but I think I am just one of the many enthusiasts here on CEF with similar relationship to their toys.

rsv1cox wrote:Nice Andras,  I followed a couple of those builds and flights but must have missed the red Das Little Stick look alike.  

I admire your dedication to Cox and visits to their old buildings.  

No really old builds, or didn't you save them?

Bob

Thanks Bob..some of the old builds were lost in the bush near the field I fly, some others just did not survive unplanned landings..I returned to the hobby 10 years ago and have built planes in the last 9 or so... and the Roaring 20, the Toucan and the Lil Roughneck are near 5 or so years old . Even the Cosmic Wind is older than 3. These are not old planes but have been with me for almost half of my recent hobby time.

The Little Stick is not quite active, however I posted a short video on youtube on its maiden.

Ricksrod wrote:What a wonderful collection. I bet each one has a special story to tell!! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks if you meant me.  Probably both.

The red white and blue plane is scratch built with the wing being the horizontal stab from a crashed R/C plane.  The engine is an Enya .15 with ganged throttle/flaps. Flys crazy.

P-38 is scratch built mostly to scale and flys well.  P-40 is from a kit and the only plane I actually did stunts with including inverted flight.  Love that plane.  The Nieuport 28 is from a kit and is a wonderful flier too.  My son has flown it.  One errr….. Baby Ringmaster is from a kit, the other scratched with a SIG airfoil wing.  The R/C plane (Sterling Fledgling) is the only one I have left.  Others have gone to R/C heaven.  But I have another that Kim gave me centuries ago that I have yet to fly.

Most have been told about here before.

Hopefully others will chime in. I know that Roddie and others here have a bunch.

Bob yours is a fantastic collection too and these birds are in very good condition and gracefully stored with your engines and other stuff..I do not have yet a dedicated room in our house where my 70+ COX engines and my fleet could be decently laid out...now that our kids have moved out and left us with my ole lady to share a big house I will conquere my own space under the roof eventually..

Thanks Andras, when the last of our brood moved out (Mark to the Navy) my wife and I had a custom house built. Five levels, beautiful but no place to pound a nail or saw a board without disturbing something. But I love this place. Woodworking shed, detached four car garage, two car attached, loft, finished basement. Just a comfortable old farm house with lots of room where I can make a mess if I want to.

Forgot about describing the Cox Corsair. Forgettable, very forgettable.

Thanks for picking up on this Doc. I would like to see others chime in with their "survivors."

New projects are fine but there is nothing like seeing model planes that have passed the test of time. I think that's mostly Kim's fleet, and he's still flying and showing them.

Bob

Is this supposed to be a thread where we show off models that flew at least once and survived in flying condition until now? Or just survived at least one flight?
Either way, I'll present my showcase on the weekend.

dirk gently wrote:Is this supposed to be a thread where we show off models that flew at least once and survived in flying condition until now? Or just survived at least one flight?
Either way, I'll present my showcase on the weekend.

"Survivors Showcase"  Kim coined the term.  

I guess even one flight qualifies as a survivor.  But I was thinking airplanes that you had flown as a child or sometime in the distant past.  Something not quite pristine, repaired maybe etc..  Battle scars so to speak, but anything is welcome.

What got me started was this article in Air Classics Magazine.  Pages of derelict prop driven airliners.  




Which got me to thinking about all the prop driven airliners that I had flown in.  

First was a Douglas DC-3 from Baltimore to Boston via Eastern Airlines in 1956.  Actually the first time I had ever flown.



Second was a Lockheed Super Constellation from Pensacola to Boston with wife and daughter probably 1958,



Return trip Boston to Pensacola was a Douglas DC-6.



I have also flown on four engine high wing turbo props and pure jets but they were mostly forgettable experiences.

Ah, I think I'll pass then, I don't have any model that survived more than a year or so
I even scrapped all my electrics this season.

dirk gently wrote:Ah, I think I'll pass then, I don't have any model that survived more than a year or so
I even scrapped all my electrics this season.

Ah, show off.  Gather all your models together and snap a picture.  

You have built some fascinating airplanes.

Bob

I know I have vintage pictures ,just gotta find them. Probably on my old Windows98 computer hard drive! Go find my “wayback” machine!

Marleysky wrote:I know I have vintage pictures ,just gotta find them. Probably on my old Windows98 computer hard drive!  Go find my “wayback” machine!

I have albums upon albums of photographs taken with my old Pentax 35mm and other cameras that go back 70+ years. But like you I have pictures on my old NEC that I can't recover and many more on my recently crashed HP. I'm just lucky because I kept a few of my old models that I can take current pictures of.

Post your pictures. Kim and I are probably the most prolific picture posters here and they haven't thrown us off the forum...…...............…….yet.

Bob

rsv1cox wrote:

Marleysky wrote:I know I have vintage pictures ,just gotta find them. Probably on my old Windows98 computer hard drive!  Go find my “wayback” machine!

Post your pictures.  Kim and I are probably the most prolific picture posters here and they haven't thrown us off the forum...…...............…….yet.  

Bob

Oh shoot---I hope not!!!!!  PLEASE let me stay here...if not for myself...for the sake of all those other innocent victims that will face the overflow of my memory lane rattling!

As it is, I'm gonna do "installments" on this great thread Bob has started, using these as a way of organizing some of the mound of stuff that's gone on over the years...toward that day when tagged folders may entertain me in the old folks home.

Anyway, here's a dose:
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Back in the 1980's (or maybe 90's...it's all starting to meld), my flying bud Neal and I got a couple of the newly released Cox R/C PT-19's.  Made of molded foam, these are good-looking planes, with moderate performance from it's .049 Ranger (coincidentally, also the name of the full scale PT's engine).

We DID experience problems with getting the CG correct...even moving all the gear as far forward as we could, the model was still a bit tail-heavy, and would snap inverted if it's pilot got too frisky with pitch input.  A chunk of lead ballast fixed the problem, but gave the .049 still more weight to drag through the sky.  

I finally decided to "make the ballast work", and bolted a Medallion RC .09 to it's snout, spaced forward by a block of ply, and fed by a metal wedge tank suspended behind the firewall.  The .09 was the exhaust band type, and worked really well...helping with the balance problem, AND turning the PT into a mean little ankle biter.

Neal followed suit...though his may have been powered by an O.S. .10, and we put on many impromptu Sunday pylon races, or dog fights (often during the same flight), with both planes amazingly surviving our crazy flying.

I'd like to get my old relic going for this year's S.M.A.L.L., again with it's .09 engine.  The foam has survived in great shape, but the harder plastic parts are turning into cookie crumbs and will take some shoring up to be airworthy.







I've got the canopies and roll-over structure tucked away somewhere...they'll get stuck on it if I can find them---

Marleysky wrote:I know I have vintage pictures ,just gotta find them. Probably on my old Windows98 computer hard drive!  Go find my “wayback” machine!

Found one picture of my 1960"s era "Model Workshop" old black and white photo. Look close, you can see a Double VooDoo one on the bench, one hanging on the wall,   Goldberg 1/2A Blazer, the fuse and tail feathers of a Spitfire hanging on the pegboard,  with the Lil Wizzard on the bench is the SURVIVOR, as I still have it.  the McCoy 19 on the pegboard was for the VooDoo, and I still have it and the Balsa skeletons of the VooDoo's


check out that overhead "shoplight" Ha-ha

Marleysky wrote:

check out that overhead "shoplight" Ha-ha

It obviously got the job done!!!

Great Photo!

great photo, I can smell the damp cinder block mustiness