Wally's Wings - a COX promotional film from 1961

X2 on Yabby's comments. Like your parents, you can't choose the country that you are born in. Too many of my country's citizens do not appreciate the great gift that being born in the USA offers. "From sea to shining sea!"

Loved the video Andras, and thank's for sharing. Somehow MECOA has obtained the rights and shares it with the public. Lot's of highlights, especially the kid flying three airplanes, one in each hand and one in his teeth. Also the 59' or 60' Corvette driven by Wally's Dad. I took one down to nuts and bolts over a six year period.

Thanks Yabby and Bob! Maybe in my second life unless I will be reborn as an exotic plant,  but just as another Wally in LA, I will revive myself the joy of the early 60-s kids in the US who could afford flying those planes.


Funny, how they re-dubbed in the film the sound of COX engines into a low frequency murmur...the real sound of a COX was probably counter-productive in a promo film wanting to find new customers, who knew not too much about what a COX engine is capable of (mechanically, and acoustically too   ) until they started their new COX in a friendly and consolidated neighborhood  

And the castor stains left on the tarmac of that airfield with real-size airplanes in the background hangars...would OSHA of today tolerate castor on the runway??? (I remember my one and only Super Sport Trainer left similar marks on the asphalt of our high school basketball field, and the culprit was at large, never to be found ( i never admitted I was the one using the basketball field as a thimble drome)

And yes, Bob, that 60'-s Corvette is just mouth-watering...I saw that recently in a Johnny Depp film Rum Diaries...simply ever-lastingly beautiful design, a gal'-catcher if you know what I mean!!


The whole film radiates the welfare and joy of the 60-s in the USA...my goodness gracious...

Neat video Andras, It was a neat time to be a kid in 60’s and 70’s in the US…..Kind of surreal to me to circle back around to the engines we knew then……Seems a lot more meaningful now…

Cool little film I was surprised to see a guy fly two planes at the same time but even more so when he does it with three  It's strange how things change at the time we see lots of young people Participate today, young people hardly go out anymore I wish I had my wings like those wally recived And Wally's dad's car is magnificent, a friend of my father's had one like new back in 1986 I remember we filled the gas under the sign To see this car I imagine that the father was rich We then see the target audience at that time of course very different from today But despite better accessibility for less wealthy people. we only see a few young people joining While at that time seemed to be made up of mostly younger people