Dan McEntee flying his Cox Stuka at Buder Park on Oct 19th, 2014. Buder Park is in the St Louis, MO area where the Lafayette Esquadrille fly CL models.
The sound and smells of my youth. Friend of mine had a Stuka, but never flew it successfully. I had a PT-19 and flew the heck out of it. One never hears a small Cox glow engine anymore, and that’s a shame. Thanks for the memories!
I received a Cox Stuka for Christmas 1962. I could not wait to fly it once the Minneapolis winter let up. I took it on my Michigan summer vacation. My maternal grandfather watched me fire up the rascal on the gravel in front of his barn. He let the tail loose on my command the Stuka shot like a rocket straight up! I tried to control the beast. My beautiful Stuka pitched over and went straight down. It crashed hard and broke several pieces. I sent some money to California for replacement pieces. After a wait which seemed forever to 13 year old me, I got the parts and repaired the machine as good as new. I should have suspected the Stuka from my bedroom ceiling to admire during me teen years. Nope! I took the Stuka flying again. It did the same death defying stunt crashing into about a dozen pieces. Apparently, I was not born to pilot control line model aircraft. 17 years later, I earned my private pilots license and achieved my lifelong dream.
My Dad had that plane when I was about 7 yrs old around 1970. We went out to fly it the first time. My old man got dizzy, stumbled backwards and fell. The plane crashed and was ruined. Great memory! lol
Great Tribute and story! I wish they got to see you fly the Stuka. About '69 or '70 when I was about 10-11, I saved up after staring at this plane on the top shelf above the counter in my local Hobby store for what seemed to be a year. It cost $30 then. I remember the cost because I used to get $2 a week allowance and it took time to save up. I was so proud, walking out of that store with my Stuka. I just beamed. I took the time to paint the pilot and rear machine gunner and was just dreaming on how much fun it was going to be. I talked my Dad into driving to a school with a blacktop pad big enough to fly it, I had never flown before and got it all ready to go. I remember starting like you and the smell of the fuel and like yourself, that thing went straight up and straight down smashing into unrepairable pieces. No flight. Back in the box and that was it. Never got to drop the bomb and never had a maiden voyage. Shitty day as a kid.
I had one too. And it went straight up and straight down. I repaired it, tried again. Same thing the second time. Oh well as you said a shitty day. But a shitty day as a kid back then was better than a good day as a kid now.
I had the same plane and also smashed it up on my first flight. Dad glued it together for me and I was able to finally master it. I now fly small classic aircraft and at 71 I still love it.
WOW that is the exact same story of the COX Stuka I finally got after 6 months of saving my money back in 1968, up over and down. Then I was back to flying my Cox PT-19. That was so much fun watching what it was supposed to look like past 1/2 turn!
The exact same thing happened with my PT-19 the first time. After many Carl Goldburg Wizzards, I finally got my Stuka & Boy Howdy did it fly nice! The sound of a Cox engine would draw all the neighbor hood kids, no matter what you were playing with, now all you'll get is cops! Many thanks to Roy Cox for all the airplanes, dune buggys & teather cars that kept us entertained & out of trouble!
The Stuka and PT19 had about the lightest wing loading of the Cox RTFs. Even still, you can't do much more with them than round & round and up & down. When I built my first Ringmaster & Stuntman 23, the heavens opened up to me.
God bless you brother. Such a nice tribute. So many of us kids in the 60’s and 70’s were enlightened by the small gas creations by Cox and Testers to name a few. They probably kept many of us out of juvenile detention because we were so enamored by these creations. Me and my two brothers would simply nail a Cox .049 to a board and run it to full rpm and watch it in all its glory singing with its high pitch tune. The neighbors hated us we couldn’t have cared less. We were learning mechanics and physics and didn’t even know it. Loved the video.
NICE LANDING!!! I flew control line models all through my childhood 1962-1968 then later. Flying contol line models led me to a career as a pilot with United Airlines 1986-2015. I still fly professionally in a corporate jet at 74, but credit control line models to my career. I have never had an interest in flying RC. With a control line model, I could actually feel my airplane stall throught the lines. The techniques for taking off and landing a real aiplane vs a control line model is that with real airplanes, you take off into the wind, but with a control line model, you take off with a tailwind to keep the lines tight before the rudder becomes effective.
Nice job on this and great tribute to your mom. It's the little, seemingly stupid, insignificant things in life that mean the most. My mom bought two of these exact airplanes from the Salvation Army Store in San Bernardino for me. We couldn't at times afford new toys so we went there and got toys from donations given them. I got two which got me one nice flying airplane. Fuel was a dime back then and we lived at the end of a cul-de-sac which made the perfect "airport", kids were lined up around it, and set up army men for me to bomb. After a few hits and misses, I just divebombed the plane and did touch and go's right thru the army guys and sent them flying. Was the highlight and excitement of the neighborhood since we moved there in '63.
Congrats on flight, about 48 years ago my cox stuka made about 1/2 lap on its maiden flight, nose dived into the ground, parts went flying & wings broke off. straight up n straight down weeeeeeeee , daddy glued it back together but i was to chicken to try flying it agin. didnt get anymore plane presents, instead orange cox dune buggy and slot cars
@@whittonmjc and just to add to it the same thing happened to me in about 1971. Ham fisted 12 year old wound it up and over into the deck and split the main wings. Dad fixed it (just) with a set of balsa wings from a Chipmunk. It was never the same again 😢😢😢😢
Dude thank you so much for this video. I'm in my sixties and when I was a Youngster my mom and dad bought me the Stuka and the p19 trainer. You brought back some beautiful memories and a lot of smiles. Thanks a bunch 👍🤣
Oh, I love hearing that sound again.... I had a "Little Stinker" (Pitts Bi-Plane) and a beautiful Cox Stuka. I did that half lap, loop-in just like you recalled, with the "Stinker" but couldn't bear to kill that beautiful Stuka. Never flew it. It left, years later, while I wasn't looking, probably in a garage sale. Wish I had it back... and that battle-scarred "Stinker"! Glad you're keepin' 'em flying! :)
Haha that's fantastic! had a couple of these in the late 60's-early 70's but could never get the damned engine started...either that or was too scared to ;) Amazing how small it looks now...was huge by Cox standards back in the day. I'm amazed how strong it pulls on such a long control line. Cheers from a fellow Cox fanatic
Great fun to watch and so touching you dedicated the flight to your Mom and little brother. My Mom bought me a Cox .049 ready to fly Curtiss Helldiver for my 12th birthday I crashed that thing many a time then later I had a Cox .049 P-40 Warhawk had better luck flying that one I remember when the Cox ready-to-fly planes were common and you could find them at just about any department store or hobby shop. Had a Cox Ford GT-40 .049 tether car too kid down the street had the Chapparal version we dragged raced each other one time mine hit the shock cord at the end, the engine reversed itself and the darn thing came back at me full speed..scared the bejeesus out of me. Great fun and memories.
Great video.Sorry to hear about your moms passing. My mom was also my greatest fan and supporter. Best part of the video was watching the great landing. I JUST knew the Stuka could land smoothly without flipping over in the grass and bending the undercarriage! (My buddies and I only had a sloped piece of small grass to fly our planes on. Not ideal. Your engine had a strange intermittent misfire. Was it too rich. Still, it ran great. The Cox Stuka engine always seemed to be much more powerful than my Babe Bees.
Yeah Dan had a good time that day and you can tell for him it was a personal thing to get the model to fly. We have fun here in St Louis at Buder Park.
I got this plane for Christmas, 1975 or 6. Memory's foggy. These planes were cool and I built a few with .049 cox engines. But contrary, we played with these because we didn't have the cool electronics kids have today. Example being that as soon as Atari (and mine, Magnavox Studio II) came out, those models never saw the light of day again. All kids have cool things relevant to their time.
Love this video, I had the Cox P-40 Tiger Shark and crashed it on the first flight too. My mom and baby brother have also passed. We share a lot, great video and thanks
omg what a great vid,i always wanted one as a kid ,finally got one ,traded for it and it never ran,the thing had been glued back together ,peices missing and i still loved that plane,don tknow what happened to it ,i have four brothers we distroyed every toy we had,when we discovered bb guns and m80 s/firecrackers,and lighter fluid,i miss my youth. glad to see you fly it i wish i could be there ,it just go to show it s never too late,,,,thx for this vid dan good luck.
That was fantastic. As soon as that engine started I had the smell in my nose and the memories came flooding back. Summertime in the mid sixties with your pals on the vacant lot at the end of the block. Which also doubled for a wiffle ball stadium/ Bicycle ramp jumping stadium / After dark Man hunt HQ / etc. The best of times. Our parents had to threaten us with a beating to get us to come inside. A lot has changed.
I had one when I was 10 years old. My sister lived up in Big Bear, CA and took it up there one weekend to fly it at the high school. Unfortunately I left it on the rear shelf of my mom's 64 Ford Galaxy and the sun melted the wings to where they were lying on the shelf and the tail fin was drooped over to one side. Had to save up and do odd jobs to replace the wing, fuselage and various other parts. Did fly it on numerous occasions after that. Also, I had the PT Trainer, Buick Riviera, Mercedes Race Car with spoke wheels, and many other U-control planes...fun times.
Great video Dan. My four kids learned to fly on a Cox PT19 trainer. Some of my grandkids learned to fly on the Sig Skyray. I started with Scientific hollow logs back in 1951. Layed news paper on the living room floor to build them. OK Cub .049 power that came out of a Scientific Half Pint race car. When I was a kid growing up in the 40's, I did not know there was any other type of flying with engines as that is all I knew or had seen. I had built a few stick and tissue rubber powered planes. My early years were spent watching ignition gas powered planes flying control line. I still have a great love for flying those old spark engines. They are so unique. My wife says I have to many. I say there is no such thing. LOL
It is pretty cool that you came back years later and got the plane to fly. My brother and I had the same luck that you had as kids, a couple of laps, and then SMACK!!! These were such cool toys to get back in the 60's and 70's
Very cool! I got into model planes too. I had an original, purple, Cox Supersport that I could never got off the ground. My dad and brother were really into airplanes and both of them have passed on, too. Maybe I'll get a Super Sport and do the samething.
Hey Dan, I wish I could come back to Buder park and fly with you again. You helped me a lot through the years. You have been flying Expert Stunt for a long time and I always aspired to fly as good as you. You took a crappy airplane and flew it like nobody would believe! I think it was my heavy "Jamison" If you ever get out to California, please look me up.
The sound of a cox .049 the years of a 1960s childhood. There's still one of mine stuck in the woods somewhere from one of my free flight contractions.
Merveilleux petit stuka il semble très réactif et il doit pouvoir faire un petit peu d'accro élémentaire le renversement. Le loop droit ,vol dos Grand bravo à vous , et oui les bon vieux petits Cox ....!! Merci pour ce moment de plaisir
This was my first control line model when I was 12 (55 years ago) used to take ages to get the engine running then 3 or 4 circuits then repeat the process...never did stay in the air long enough to drop the bomb!!!
I had one of those. It got missing one day!!! My favorite was a German red and blue biplane... dad told me it was a red baron plane. I loved that plane and held on to it for 10 years. I was stolen in Brunswick GA while I was in school and the police even caught the guy but it never got returned. I hope to be able to afford another one like it oneday.... but now I'm 55 years old and it is not very likely I will ever see another one.
@philiphatfield5666 lol, I'm sure it is long, long, long gone. When I manage to sell my BMW motorcycle, maybe I will find one and have the money in the bank to buy it at the sametime... I seen one three years ago, but at over $175 plus shipping, it was outside my financial ability to purchase it.. well that and it was missing a few parts and non flyable. I guess I should let it go, but it was my first cox airplane and the cirst one I ever managed to actually fly. I flew it so much that I wore the engine out. I held on to it from 1972 till 1984, so I guess I got my dads moneys worth out of it. Lol. I went through 7 glow plugs heads before that thing lost compression. I was prop starting it with my finger and not useing the spring. I got a brand new engine from a guy that crashed a p-51 and destroyed the wing and tail, but the engine was unhurt. I changed the prop to get the old wooden look and would just sit on the back porch steps, and crank it up and pretend it was flying.... but the neighbors complained about the noise and the cops showed up to tell me not to do that anymore. So it was hanging in my room from a fishing string. A guy named Todd broke Into our house while we were camping on st Simon's Island GA and among the stuff he stole from my room was a brand CB radio I repaired after finding it in a wrecked semi and made it work useing a power converter and an antenna from a other car in the junkyard, my tyco semi truck/police car slot car set and my fokker DR2 Cox U Control Biplane. He stole stuff from my mom and dad which they got back, but I guess my stuff was not a value worthy pursuit for the police. Atleast he spent some time in jail over the thefts throughout the neighborhood. I'm going to search ebay right now and see if there's one up there. Lol
Really enjoyed that, like you I received a cox stuka for xmas over 45 years ago now I guess. Like you it only lasted about half a lap, really bumed me out at the time. So it was really cool to watch this.
Absolutly fantastic that was a great flying skill you posses ! that Stuka was and is my favorite all time COX flying model mater of fact I bought one on Ebay about 10 years ago in great shape and never sell it. great job Brother
Makes my head spin just watching this. Many an aviator's career began with a Cox U-line kit. My aviation career started and ended with a Cox P-40 Warhawk in a pile of plastic.
That was impressive, great video, take off and landing perfect, I always hated the fact that you were not ever sure when the fuel would run out and the thing would just nose dive ....... excellent, thank you for sharing.
I had this exact aircraft as a boy in the 1960's. It crashed, the wing breaking into many fragments... Mine had a third line which released a black plastic bomb.
I got one for my 11th birthday in 1967. I never did achieve level flight. It was up down up down crash. I would use a soldering iron to melt the pieces back together 😅
Great Video. I had one as a kid and my dad crashed it. I've got one now but you definitely need a big area to fly it. The control handle comes with another wire which I think allows you to drop the red bomb that came with the plane.
I have vivid memories of seeing it on display in its clear-top box at Spielwaren Schmidt in Munich in the sixties...lol I still remember asking myself - what made them cast the cockpit of a warplanes in bright red...
I had a pile of balsa built control liners and several of the Cox plastic versions including the cosmic wind and the Pt-19 along with this stuka I got from a friend after he mashed it. I learned on the balsa models and then was able to fly those plastic planes better without fear of destroying them.
I had an Uncle who drove a tank in World War ll, and he came to visit us shortly after Christmas one year and he asked me what all I got, and when I brought out my Cox Stuka, he grew very quiet. "That's nice", he said as he went outside to smoke a cigarette. I later found out that he was offended that American children would play with a model airplane that was a replica of the ones that the Germans flew against us in WW ll. My Aunt said that he railed about that Stuka on the three hour drive back to their house. "That piece of crap model even has a plastic bomb that falls out during the flight", he said. When he found out I later crashed it, my Aunt said that he was happy as hell!
Just TOO cool! I have one in the box along with a Corsair and a PT-19 trainer that none of which has seen flight yet. I have bi-polar disorder that makes it difficult to get out and do things.
So it does fly! I had one as a gift from my father when I was just a kid. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to make the engine run and so I wasn't able to see it fly.
What You just did successfully, Soo Soo many little boys never got to do but look at their cox and imagine what it would be like to fly it . 40 years as an RC HOBBIEST ' I still remember my cox p40 flying tiger 🐯 SALUTE to you little bro an mom .keep it flying !
When I was a young teen a day after Christmas, I watched some kid and his father try to fly a Stuka plane in a church parking lot. It made a half lap, went straight up and smashed into the ground in pieces. I really felt sorry for the kid. New Christmas present gone in 5 seconds.
Standing on a circle? Genius. Wish I thought of that in 1972. Crashed mine twice. Used the engine for a swamp boat/aircar. Had the Cox Baja Bug too. Anyone remember when Sprite had a bottle cap liner giveaway? Never got my Racer either.
Mine was the P-40. I never did fly another one, but after many years of failure, I met some important people: Sailplane fliers. They were so nice to me! Since then I've flow sailplanes (like a Gentle Lady on which I put more than 400 flights before I quit counting) and scratch-built things of my own. I'm THRILLED to see you find completion like this. And it gives me hope that airplanes will be around for the afterlife...because people love it, so. Like in WW1; as much as 25% died in training, before ever seeing the enemy...and yet people wrote SONGS about their love of 'the game': A POOR AVIATOR LAY DYING (First World War Version, trad) Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean A poor aviator lay dying At the end of a bright summer's day His comrades had gathered about him To carry his fragments away The airplane was piled on his wishbone His Hotchkiss was wrapped round his head He wore a spark-plug on each elbow 'Twas plain he would shortly be dead He spit out a valve and a gasket And stirred in the sump where he lay And then to his wondering comrades These brave parting words he did say "Take the magneto out of my stomach, And the butterfly valve off my neck, Extract from my liver the crankshaft, There are lots of good parts in this wreck" "Take the manifold out of my larynx, And the cylinders out of my brain, Take the piston rods out of my kidneys, And assemble the engine again." Additional verses in some versions detract from the poignancy of the pilot being one with his aeroplane. Pull the longeron out of my backbone, The turnbuckle out of my ear (my ear). From the small of my back take the rudder- There's all of your aeroplane here. I'll be riding a cloud in the morning, With no rotary before me to cuss (to cuss). Take the lead from your feet and get busy, Here's another lad needing the bus! Take the bullet from out of my shoulder, Take the shrapnel out of my brain, And the pom-pom from out of my liver, And patch up the turret again I'll be riding a cloud in the morning, No more this gun turret to cuss, So please patch me up in my shroud, For I'll not be needing this bus So hold all your glasses steady, And let's drink a toast to the sky, For here's to the dead already, And here's to the next man to die Oh, had I the wings of a little dove, Far a-way, far a-way would I fly, I fly, Straight to the arms of my true-love, And there would I lay me and die. Then get you two little white tombstones, Put them one at my head and my toe, my toe, And get you a penknife and scratch there, "Here lies a poor pilot below." And when at the Court of Enquiry They ask for the reason I died, I died, Please say I forgot twice iota Was the minimum angle of glide.
The sound and smells of my youth. Friend of mine had a Stuka, but never flew it successfully. I had a PT-19 and flew the heck out of it. One never hears a small Cox glow engine anymore, and that’s a shame. Thanks for the memories!
They were the best times.
I went through 2 P40's then started building wood models
WOW!! I'm 60 and had a Cox PT19 with the.049 engine, what a blast!!! Sometimes I think as kids we had better more rewarding toys then today.
I received a Cox Stuka for Christmas 1962. I could not wait to fly it once the Minneapolis winter let up. I took it on my Michigan summer vacation. My maternal grandfather watched me fire up the rascal on the gravel in front of his barn. He let the tail loose on my command the Stuka shot like a rocket straight up! I tried to control the beast. My beautiful Stuka pitched over and went straight down. It crashed hard and broke several pieces. I sent some money to California for replacement pieces. After a wait which seemed forever to 13 year old me, I got the parts and repaired the machine as good as new. I should have suspected the Stuka from my bedroom ceiling to admire during me teen years. Nope! I took the Stuka flying again. It did the same death defying stunt crashing into about a dozen pieces. Apparently, I was not born to pilot control line model aircraft. 17 years later, I earned my private pilots license and achieved my lifelong dream.
I had the same plane back in about 67-68 great memories, finger still hurts from the prop.
My Dad had that plane when I was about 7 yrs old around 1970. We went out to fly it the first time. My old man got dizzy, stumbled backwards and fell. The plane crashed and was ruined. Great memory! lol
Great Tribute and story! I wish they got to see you fly the Stuka. About '69 or '70 when I was about 10-11, I saved up after staring at this plane on the top shelf above the counter in my local Hobby store for what seemed to be a year. It cost $30 then. I remember the cost because I used to get $2 a week allowance and it took time to save up. I was so proud, walking out of that store with my Stuka. I just beamed. I took the time to paint the pilot and rear machine gunner and was just dreaming on how much fun it was going to be. I talked my Dad into driving to a school with a blacktop pad big enough to fly it, I had never flown before and got it all ready to go. I remember starting like you and the smell of the fuel and like yourself, that thing went straight up and straight down smashing into unrepairable pieces. No flight. Back in the box and that was it. Never got to drop the bomb and never had a maiden voyage. Shitty day as a kid.
Same.
I had one too. And it went straight up and straight down. I repaired it, tried again. Same thing the second time. Oh well as you said a shitty day. But a shitty day as a kid back then was better than a good day as a kid now.
I had the same plane and also smashed it up on my first flight. Dad glued it together for me and I was able to finally master it. I now fly small classic aircraft and at 71 I still love it.
WOW that is the exact same story of the COX Stuka I finally got after 6 months of saving my money back in 1968, up over and down. Then I was back to flying my Cox PT-19.
That was so much fun watching what it was supposed to look like past 1/2 turn!
You bring back a lot of memories, I'm 75 years old.
The exact same thing happened with my PT-19 the first time. After many Carl Goldburg Wizzards, I finally got my Stuka & Boy Howdy did it fly nice! The sound of a Cox engine would draw all the neighbor hood kids, no matter what you were playing with, now all you'll get is cops! Many thanks to Roy Cox for all the airplanes, dune
buggys & teather cars that kept us entertained & out of trouble!
Absolutely ..and music to my ears 🎶🎶🎶🤘🏼🤘🏼
The Stuka and PT19 had about the lightest wing loading of the Cox RTFs. Even still, you can't do much more with them than round & round and up & down. When I built my first Ringmaster & Stuntman 23, the heavens opened up to me.
Carl Goldberg models were pretty good too, Jumping Bean and Lil Satan, the latter semi combat wing, fast and aerobatic. Good times
You could try to do a loop with these two models, but the success rate was low. Up and down and a wingover was about it.
God bless you brother. Such a nice tribute. So many of us kids in the 60’s and 70’s were enlightened by the small gas creations by Cox and Testers to name a few. They probably kept many of us out of juvenile detention because we were so enamored by these creations. Me and my two brothers would simply nail a Cox .049 to a board and run it to full rpm and watch it in all its glory singing with its high pitch tune.
The neighbors hated us we couldn’t have cared less. We were learning mechanics and physics and didn’t even know it.
Loved the video.
NICE LANDING!!! I flew control line models all through my childhood 1962-1968 then later. Flying contol line models led me to a career as a pilot with United Airlines 1986-2015. I still fly professionally in a corporate jet at 74, but credit control line models to my career. I have never had an interest in flying RC. With a control line model, I could actually feel my airplane stall throught the lines. The techniques for taking off and landing a real aiplane vs a control line model is that with real airplanes, you take off into the wind, but with a control line model, you take off with a tailwind to keep the lines tight before the rudder becomes effective.
I can still remember the smell once you started the engine. Great vid. Thanks for the memories.
Outstanding flight. I Had a Cox Stuka, a P-40 Flying Tiger and a PT-19 when I was a kid. Still have the PT-19. Great memories.
I'm from France and was hiding under my desk the entire flight.
just got a cox stuka off ebay, hope you still have your desk.
Smoothest landing I've ever seen of a plastic control line plane, specially a Cox Stuka, known as a "rocky" flyer . Well done !!
Nice job on this and great tribute to your mom. It's the little, seemingly stupid, insignificant things in life that mean the most. My mom bought two of these exact airplanes from the Salvation Army Store in San Bernardino for me. We couldn't at times afford new toys so we went there and got toys from donations given them. I got two which got me one nice flying airplane. Fuel was a dime back then and we lived at the end of a cul-de-sac which made the perfect "airport", kids were lined up around it, and set up army men for me to bomb. After a few hits and misses, I just divebombed the plane and did touch and go's right thru the army guys and sent them flying. Was the highlight and excitement of the neighborhood since we moved there in '63.
Congrats on flight, about 48 years ago my cox stuka made about 1/2 lap on its maiden flight, nose dived into the ground, parts went flying & wings broke off. straight up n straight down weeeeeeeee , daddy glued it back together but i was to chicken to try flying it agin. didnt get anymore plane presents, instead orange cox dune buggy and slot cars
Same thing happened to me 50 years ago. But I salvaged the engine, bought a new mount, and used it in another U control plane and learned to fly.
@@whittonmjc and just to add to it the same thing happened to me in about 1971. Ham fisted 12 year old wound it up and over into the deck and split the main wings. Dad fixed it (just) with a set of balsa wings from a Chipmunk. It was never the same again 😢😢😢😢
You did your Mother and little brother proud,awesome flite👍
Dude thank you so much for this video. I'm in my sixties and when I was a Youngster my mom and dad bought me the Stuka and the p19 trainer. You brought back some beautiful memories and a lot of smiles. Thanks a bunch 👍🤣
Oh, I love hearing that sound again.... I had a "Little Stinker" (Pitts Bi-Plane) and a beautiful Cox Stuka. I did that half lap, loop-in just like you recalled, with the "Stinker" but couldn't bear to kill that beautiful Stuka. Never flew it. It left, years later, while I wasn't looking, probably in a garage sale. Wish I had it back... and that battle-scarred "Stinker"! Glad you're keepin' 'em flying! :)
Haha that's fantastic! had a couple of these in the late 60's-early 70's but could never get the damned engine started...either that or was too scared to ;) Amazing how small it looks now...was huge by Cox standards back in the day. I'm amazed how strong it pulls on such a long control line. Cheers from a fellow Cox fanatic
Great fun to watch and so touching you dedicated the flight to your Mom and little brother. My Mom bought me a Cox .049 ready to fly Curtiss Helldiver for my 12th birthday I crashed that thing many a time then later I had a Cox .049 P-40 Warhawk had better luck flying that one I remember when the Cox ready-to-fly planes were common and you could find them at just about any department store or hobby shop. Had a Cox Ford GT-40 .049 tether car too kid down the street had the Chapparal version we dragged raced each other one time mine hit the shock cord at the end, the engine reversed itself and the darn thing came back at me full speed..scared the bejeesus out of me. Great fun and memories.
Cool video!Brings back good memories from the 70's.My first line controlled plane was a cox P-40,One of my friends had the Stuka.
Great video.Sorry to hear about your moms passing. My mom was also my greatest fan and supporter. Best part of the video was watching the great landing. I JUST knew the Stuka could land smoothly without flipping over in the grass and bending the undercarriage! (My buddies and I only had a sloped piece of small grass to fly our planes on. Not ideal. Your engine had a strange intermittent misfire. Was it too rich. Still, it ran great. The Cox Stuka engine always seemed to be much more powerful than my Babe Bees.
I had 4 of those airplanes, Stuka, PT trainer, P40 and P38. This is the first time I saw one fly!!!😂
That's freakin hilarious. What ever day you posted this comment you won.
Man that's just great. Brings me back. Kids today just don't have this cool stuff. Everything is Xbox.
Yeah Dan had a good time that day and you can tell for him it was a personal thing to get the model to fly. We have fun here in St Louis at Buder Park.
I got this plane for Christmas, 1975 or 6. Memory's foggy. These planes were cool and I built a few with .049 cox engines. But contrary, we played with these because we didn't have the cool electronics kids have today. Example being that as soon as Atari (and mine, Magnavox Studio II) came out, those models never saw the light of day again. All kids have cool things relevant to their time.
My absolute favorite toy as a kid. And from how excited he was after he flew his, I can tell it's still just as fun as I remember! lol
Love this video, I had the Cox P-40 Tiger Shark and crashed it on the first flight too. My mom and baby brother have also passed. We share a lot, great video and thanks
I know this video is old
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Congrats Bro !
Nice job , know ya mom and brother are smiling ....
May they rest in peace ..
Joe Navy veteran 🇺🇸🇺🇸
omg what a great vid,i always wanted one as a kid ,finally got one ,traded for it and it never ran,the thing had been glued back together ,peices missing and i still loved that plane,don tknow what happened to it ,i have four brothers we distroyed every toy we had,when we discovered bb guns and m80 s/firecrackers,and lighter fluid,i miss my youth. glad to see you fly it i wish i could be there ,it just go to show it s never too late,,,,thx for this vid dan good luck.
I used to have one, flew it many times. Wish I still had it. Thanks for the great memories.
Half A’s….. thanks for sharing. I had that Stuka , the Spitfire and the one that flew the best…PT-19.
awesome!!! happy that ur happy, enjoyed the flight with the attached extras
what a lovely man - and a great pilot, too. Excellent landing!!
That was fantastic. As soon as that engine started I had the smell in my nose and the memories came flooding back. Summertime in the mid sixties with your pals on the vacant lot at the end of the block. Which also doubled for a wiffle ball stadium/ Bicycle ramp jumping stadium / After dark Man hunt HQ / etc. The best of times. Our parents had to threaten us with a beating to get us to come inside. A lot has changed.
I had one when I was 10 years old. My sister lived up in Big Bear, CA and took it up there one weekend to fly it at the high school. Unfortunately I left it on the rear shelf of my mom's 64 Ford Galaxy and the sun melted the wings to where they were lying on the shelf and the tail fin was drooped over to one side. Had to save up and do odd jobs to replace the wing, fuselage and various other parts. Did fly it on numerous occasions after that. Also, I had the PT Trainer, Buick Riviera, Mercedes Race Car with spoke wheels, and many other U-control planes...fun times.
Great video Dan. My four kids learned to fly on a Cox PT19 trainer. Some of my grandkids learned to fly on the Sig Skyray. I started with Scientific hollow logs back in 1951. Layed news paper on the living room floor to build them. OK Cub .049 power that came out of a Scientific Half Pint race car.
When I was a kid growing up in the 40's, I did not know there was any other type of flying with engines as that is all I knew or had seen. I had built a few stick and tissue rubber powered planes.
My early years were spent watching ignition gas powered planes flying control line. I still have a great love for flying those old spark engines. They are so unique. My wife says I have to many. I say there is no such thing. LOL
It is pretty cool that you came back years later and got the plane to fly. My brother and I had the same luck that you had as kids, a couple of laps, and then SMACK!!! These were such cool toys to get back in the 60's and 70's
Memories of happy days, thanks for sharing and an excellent landing.
Very cool! I got into model planes too. I had an original, purple, Cox Supersport that I could never got off the ground. My dad and brother were really into airplanes and both of them have passed on, too. Maybe I'll get a Super Sport and do the samething.
The Stuka was my favorite. The scream of the engine kind of simulated the sirens mounted on the Stukas. Kid magnets, for sure.
Great landing! I know what I want for Christmas! Thanks for sharing!
Hey Dan, I wish I could come back to Buder park and fly with you again. You helped me a lot through the years. You have been flying Expert Stunt for a long time and I always aspired to fly as good as you. You took a crappy airplane and flew it like nobody would believe! I think it was my heavy "Jamison" If you ever get out to California, please look me up.
The sound of a cox .049 the years of a 1960s childhood. There's still one of mine stuck in the woods somewhere from one of my free flight contractions.
Love it I did the exact same thing with a cox Fokker D-7 not even a half of a lap LOL enjoyed the video thanks for sharing :)
Merveilleux petit stuka il semble très réactif et il doit pouvoir faire un petit peu d'accro élémentaire le renversement. Le loop droit ,vol dos
Grand bravo à vous , et oui les bon vieux petits Cox ....!!
Merci pour ce moment de plaisir
Man I thought I was the only one with a story like that.
The thing I am most proud of, is getting it started in 2 shots!
Great tribute to mom! Also, you stuck that landing...man that was so smooth.
This was my first control line model when I was 12 (55 years ago) used to take ages to get the engine running then 3 or 4 circuits then repeat the process...never did stay in the air long enough to drop the bomb!!!
I had one of those. It got missing one day!!! My favorite was a German red and blue biplane... dad told me it was a red baron plane. I loved that plane and held on to it for 10 years. I was stolen in Brunswick GA while I was in school and the police even caught the guy but it never got returned. I hope to be able to afford another one like it oneday.... but now I'm 55 years old and it is not very likely I will ever see another one.
If you dream about it-----it will return; but be careful about trying a loop!
@philiphatfield5666 lol, I'm sure it is long, long, long gone. When I manage to sell my BMW motorcycle, maybe I will find one and have the money in the bank to buy it at the sametime... I seen one three years ago, but at over $175 plus shipping, it was outside my financial ability to purchase it.. well that and it was missing a few parts and non flyable. I guess I should let it go, but it was my first cox airplane and the cirst one I ever managed to actually fly. I flew it so much that I wore the engine out. I held on to it from 1972 till 1984, so I guess I got my dads moneys worth out of it. Lol. I went through 7 glow plugs heads before that thing lost compression. I was prop starting it with my finger and not useing the spring. I got a brand new engine from a guy that crashed a p-51 and destroyed the wing and tail, but the engine was unhurt. I changed the prop to get the old wooden look and would just sit on the back porch steps, and crank it up and pretend it was flying.... but the neighbors complained about the noise and the cops showed up to tell me not to do that anymore. So it was hanging in my room from a fishing string. A guy named Todd broke Into our house while we were camping on st Simon's Island GA and among the stuff he stole from my room was a brand CB radio I repaired after finding it in a wrecked semi and made it work useing a power converter and an antenna from a other car in the junkyard, my tyco semi truck/police car slot car set and my fokker DR2 Cox U Control Biplane. He stole stuff from my mom and dad which they got back, but I guess my stuff was not a value worthy pursuit for the police. Atleast he spent some time in jail over the thefts throughout the neighborhood. I'm going to search ebay right now and see if there's one up there. Lol
Omg I had one of these as a kid
Great video. I had the same one and could never get it to turn over. Lots of old memories. Thank you
Wondrful video. Tha.nk you for posting it
Really enjoyed that, like you I received a cox stuka for xmas over 45 years ago now I guess. Like you it only lasted about half a lap, really bumed me out at the time. So it was really cool to watch this.
What a great video, great cox plane and what an awesome story!!! Thank you for sharing this!
Great landing- I am impressed how well you had this flying.
Reminded me of the good old days at Buder park as a kid !
What a treat, I flew all if them,and learn to fly with the PT 19,but my favorite was the Spitfire,and the Mustang,both weak in landing gears
My P-51 had throttle control. You could do touch-and-go with it.
Absolutly fantastic that was a great flying skill you posses ! that Stuka was and is my favorite all time COX flying model mater of fact I bought one on Ebay about 10 years ago in great shape and never sell it. great job Brother
perfect landing .....Back in the day this plane cost $17.00 @ K-Mart
£9.99 in post decimalisation Britain (1971)......... there goes my childhood!
I think it was about 100mk here in Finland..A lot of money at the time..
Makes my head spin just watching this. Many an aviator's career began with a Cox U-line kit. My aviation career started and ended with a Cox P-40 Warhawk in a pile of plastic.
That was impressive, great video, take off and landing perfect, I always hated the fact that you were not ever sure when the fuel would run out and the thing would just nose dive ....... excellent, thank you for sharing.
Yes,and not to mention all wounds from the prop...I think i still have some marks left...(I am 59 now 😁)
Wonderful video! A superb landing, too. You're a great control-line pilot!! Peter
Nice landing. That Stuka looked sharp cutting through the air!
I had this exact aircraft as a boy in the 1960's. It crashed, the wing breaking into many fragments...
Mine had a third line which released a black plastic bomb.
I got one for my 11th birthday in 1967. I never did achieve level flight. It was up down up down crash. I would use a soldering iron to melt the pieces back together 😅
Great Video. I had one as a kid and my dad crashed it. I've got one now but you definitely need a big area to fly it. The control handle comes with another wire which I think allows you to drop the red bomb that came with the plane.
oh man did i ever enjoy this. that SOUND! pulse pounding excitement
We grew up with the best toys
Absolutely👍
So awesome brother. A real inspiration…
I have vivid memories of seeing it on display in its clear-top box at Spielwaren Schmidt in Munich in the sixties...lol I still remember asking myself - what made them cast the cockpit of a warplanes in bright red...
I had a pile of balsa built control liners and several of the Cox plastic versions including the cosmic wind and the Pt-19 along with this stuka I got from a friend after he mashed it. I learned on the balsa models and then was able to fly those plastic planes better without fear of destroying them.
they saw you Dan ,,,,great flight and story
I will never forget the smell of the Cox fuel.
Hot, Liquid Butterscotch!!!!!!!!
I had an Uncle who drove a tank in World War ll, and he came to visit us shortly after Christmas one year and he asked me what all I got, and when I brought out my Cox Stuka, he grew very quiet. "That's nice", he said as he went outside to smoke a cigarette. I later found out that he was offended that American children would play with a model airplane that was a replica of the ones that the Germans flew against us in WW ll. My Aunt said that he railed about that Stuka on the three hour drive back to their house. "That piece of crap model even has a plastic bomb that falls out during the flight", he said. When he found out I later crashed it, my Aunt said that he was happy as hell!
Great
My Christmas gift as well.Same outcome.I like what and why you flew it.Would like to do the same
Just TOO cool! I have one in the box along with a Corsair and a PT-19 trainer that none of which has seen flight yet. I have bi-polar disorder that makes it difficult to get out and do things.
I flew that very same model back in early 1960's. Man that clip brought back a lot of memories :)
Great job. The Stuka is one of the better flying Cox models.
Perfect landing!!! All we have the same history... 😊
So it does fly! I had one as a gift from my father when I was just a kid. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to make the engine run and so I wasn't able to see it fly.
What You just did successfully, Soo Soo many little boys never got to do but look at their cox and imagine what it would be like to fly it . 40 years as an RC HOBBIEST ' I still remember my cox p40 flying tiger 🐯 SALUTE to you little bro an mom .keep it flying !
When I was a young teen a day after Christmas, I watched some kid and his father try to fly a Stuka plane in a church parking lot. It made a half lap, went straight up and smashed into the ground in pieces. I really felt sorry for the kid. New Christmas present gone in 5 seconds.
73 now. Great stuff.
I think every kid that ever owned a cox has a story like this.
Cox Stuka - first plane I ever flew 48 years ago, crashed in every pieces possible right after take off.
I only flew the PT-19, Yeah Dan was really pleased with that flight
lol , same here 48 years ago maiden flight of my cox stuka 1/2 lap straight up and straight down parts flying everywhere and wings broke off
I busted several of the Cox planes before I tried making my own from kits, like the Sterling ones. That’s how I finally got the hang of it.
All aircraft like nothing more than air beneath their wings.
Great job. I could never get my Stuka to fly right.
Great job Dan!!!!
Standing on a circle? Genius. Wish I thought of that in 1972. Crashed mine twice. Used the engine for a swamp boat/aircar. Had the Cox Baja Bug too.
Anyone remember when Sprite had a bottle cap liner giveaway? Never got my
Racer either.
“This is better than Christmas.”
Truer words were never spoken.
CONGRARTUALETIONS I HAD THE STUKA JU 87 D BUT NOW I AM LOOKING FOR THEM
Beautiful landing!
Beautiful flight and landing!
My Mom gave me a Stuka for Christmas. 1972
Mine was the P-40. I never did fly another one, but after many years of failure, I met some important people: Sailplane fliers. They were so nice to me!
Since then I've flow sailplanes (like a Gentle Lady on which I put more than 400 flights before I quit counting) and scratch-built things of my own.
I'm THRILLED to see you find completion like this. And it gives me hope that airplanes will be around for the afterlife...because people love it, so.
Like in WW1; as much as 25% died in training, before ever seeing the enemy...and yet people wrote SONGS about their love of 'the game':
A POOR AVIATOR LAY DYING
(First World War Version, trad)
Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
A poor aviator lay dying
At the end of a bright summer's day
His comrades had gathered about him
To carry his fragments away
The airplane was piled on his wishbone
His Hotchkiss was wrapped round his head
He wore a spark-plug on each elbow
'Twas plain he would shortly be dead
He spit out a valve and a gasket
And stirred in the sump where he lay
And then to his wondering comrades
These brave parting words he did say
"Take the magneto out of my stomach,
And the butterfly valve off my neck,
Extract from my liver the crankshaft,
There are lots of good parts in this wreck"
"Take the manifold out of my larynx,
And the cylinders out of my brain,
Take the piston rods out of my kidneys,
And assemble the engine again."
Additional verses in some versions detract from the poignancy of the pilot being one with his aeroplane.
Pull the longeron out of my backbone,
The turnbuckle out of my ear (my ear).
From the small of my back take the rudder-
There's all of your aeroplane here.
I'll be riding a cloud in the morning,
With no rotary before me to cuss (to cuss).
Take the lead from your feet and get busy,
Here's another lad needing the bus!
Take the bullet from out of my shoulder,
Take the shrapnel out of my brain,
And the pom-pom from out of my liver,
And patch up the turret again
I'll be riding a cloud in the morning,
No more this gun turret to cuss,
So please patch me up in my shroud,
For I'll not be needing this bus
So hold all your glasses steady,
And let's drink a toast to the sky,
For here's to the dead already,
And here's to the next man to die
Oh, had I the wings of a little dove,
Far a-way, far a-way would I fly, I fly,
Straight to the arms of my true-love,
And there would I lay me and die.
Then get you two little white tombstones,
Put them one at my head and my toe, my toe,
And get you a penknife and scratch there,
"Here lies a poor pilot below."
And when at the Court of Enquiry
They ask for the reason I died, I died,
Please say I forgot twice iota
Was the minimum angle of glide.
Very, Very Cool! Thanks for posting this great video. Nice job Dan!