Cox Wings F-15s

As stated previously, a friend gave me a couple of Cox Wings F-15s.  Apparently, the Fed Meyer department stores not only sold Cox airplanes at one time, they also sold replacement bodies for kids to keep their planes going.  My friend picked a couple up about 30 years ago, and never did anything with them.  As you can see, he probably overpaid for them, especially the white one.  He gave them to me to see if I could get them flying again, and I had just about everything I needed on hand to get them flying again.  I had a new product engine with the grey backplate that I could put in the silver plane, and I acquired a white backplate in a parts lot a couple of months ago that I could build up for the white plane.  I bent up new gear from some 1/16" music wire and made up handles using a couple of plane correct handles.




I pulled out the Windex to clean the dust off the planes, but the glue for the stickers on the white plane was brittle and the stickers came off.  I cleaned it up as much as I could, but there was still a lot of residue on the plane. But, the silver plane cleaned up great.




For the white plane, I tried a couple of hobby shops to see if I could find some Stars and Bars stickers, or anything that would be appropriate, but no dice.  So I just cut some blue trim sheet to pretty it up a bit.



Unfortunately, I couldn't find the original style of three bladed nose cone the planes came with.       As soon as my order from Bernie arrives with the proper wheels, they'll be ready to test fly.  Hopefully the wheels will get here before Saturday, since I'm going to pick up Don for another flying session then.

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