anyone ever seen one of these

I was surfing the e-bay listings and ran across thie item and wondered if it was a hand built or factory built item
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3155271844&category=19164

It's from a kit and Cox did not put it out. Cox did put out a bunch of race cars (Indy type) some air cars, but all powered by their .049 engines. All plastic, in the 60's.
Many folks out there think all model ariplanes are "remote control" including free flight and any engine is a "cox". In other words the typical uniformed facts be dammed US Citizen we deal with on %bay everyday.

Seller's ignorance notwithstanding, it is VERY cool!!

Uh, not $350.00 cool, but cool nonetheless...

God bless!

well i thought it was very differnt to say the least and i know i have never seen one at all wouldnt mind having one just to sit on the shelf collecting dust bunnies lol}>

HEY!! Who took the wings off that Gee Bee?

lmao i thought it looked like a gee bee also with no wings

I think the operative word is "type". As in "Cox Thimble Drome type".

What's the engine? An old sparker of some sort - look at the size of that coil and condenser.

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Here it is with the cowl fitted:

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It was a kit production. It appeard to have a Rogers engine in it. Possibly a .29

> It was a kit production. It appeard to have a Rogers
>engine in it. Possibly a .29
>
> Bigiron

Marvin your right on the Rogers, but it must have had a Mohawk 29 on it at one time, per the decal, guy must have loved slag or cheap motors.

No wonder it's in such good condition. The engine probably never ran, at least not when there was snow or ice on the ground. Steve

>No wonder it's in such good condition. The engine probably
>never ran, at least not when there was snow or ice on the
>ground. Steve

If you look at the pictures of that Rogers you'll know where Duke got his inspiration for the fins on his first 35. The Rogers also had a wiper type of point system that was a killer to get a decent spark to it. Saw them run but needed 6 volts to overcome the resistance of the system. It was an aluminun motor, pre high grade silicon type, made just like the Syncro B-30,Judco Ram, Buzz,Thor et al. Probably all were underwritten by the Winton Bros at AHC.Fuel mixture was 50/50 so RPM was never a possibility. We ran one with a Champion glow plug on that mixture, with the battery permenantly connected of course, and suprisingly the motor started quite well. Rpm was in the high 4's so it was a real screamer,yea right.
It at least lasted longer then my Thor It ran on Francisco Blue Blazer 3 or 4 times and was literally toast.
Dennis

...It at least lasted longer then my Thor It ran on Francisco Blue Blazer 3 or 4 times and was literally toast.
>Dennis

Someone gave me a worn out Thor when I was new to modeling. It was missing points so I guess it had been run as glow. It had no compression and I thought it was missing its ring. Found out later that it had no ring...that was an oil groove.

Those were the bad old days.

George

Oh yes, the person who gave me that Thor also gave me a worn out O&R .23. I cranked and cranked on that sucker, to no avail.

But i still wanna know where the line hooked to because i dont see any location to hook one to it any where. Surely it wasnt a free runner if it was just think how far it would go before it stopped. I know i wouldnt want to go chasing it. lmao

somewhere in bixby

Right above the on/off switch, at the rear of the cowl maybe? I see something there - might be a tether point, might be a cowl fastener.

Wouldn't this thing need a bridle to keep the "yaw angle" constant? Since there isn't a "leadout guide"?

>But i still wanna know where the line hooked to because i
>dont see any location to hook one to it any where. Surely it
>wasnt a free runner if it was just think how far it would go
>before it stopped. I know i wouldnt want to go chasing it.
>lmao
>
>
> somewhere in bixby
>
> steve

Look at the rudder. I would venture to say it was "free flight" on ice. Let it go, it goes round and round. It eventually stops when it runs out of gas, hits something, or just plain flips over.

Wouldn't that be fun on an ice rink? Maybe one could introduce a couple for a race during the intermission at the ice capades. Watch out Zamboni, here comes my racer!

now that would be a sight to see lenoard. I can just see it now rotflmao

Tom Lay used to work for zamboni(ice rink grinding machine mfg.

i wonder what his reserve price is from the current price i would say its a lot

Anyone look at what else he has for sale?

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=kfw99&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50

Wonder if he happened onto an Estate Sale? Didja see the tether cars??? $765.00 and the reserve's not met. Think someone'll "Ice" this one?