My First Successfully Flown Plane

My first one was a Cox Super Mini Stunt Plane 0.20 pee wee powered.
I had a P-40 Cox plane before this one but it died on the first flight.
I flew the Super Mini in 1967. Flew it for a hole summer. It was glued back together many times. On its last flight I crashed it & broke the crank. I was 11 then, much fun. I found its bones looking for something else. Brought back memorys. I had to share.

I'm still amazed by the fact that something costing so little can bring so much fun and happiness. It's good you kept the plane. I still have my first Cox Babe Bee .049 engine. Bought it when I was 14, now I'm 41 and that little bugger still runs fine.

Paul Heimgaertner;)

My first successful flight was on an O & R .19 powered "Maverick" by Sterling in 1949-50. I recently was able to find one of these kits on the Bay. It hangs over a scratch built "Maverick" that hangs in my office. I cant believe we really flew those things with .19's or .29's! The one hanging on my wall has an OK .09 and that looks way too big!
Joe

Hi!

I liked the Maverick. Built one in 1949 with O&R 23. Flew nicely on 52'.

The kit price was $1.00 in Atlanta then.

Flite Streak Trainer/Enya .15 circa 1965. It was also my first control line plane. Success on first flight. At least 10 other kids flew that model, most had never flown successfully before. I don't recall anyone crashing that plane. An excellent trainer. Andy

I think the same model was also sold as the "Little Stinker".. I thought it was white instead of green, however.

The Cox P40 from that era was a larger (and better) model than the newer one. It had a 3 bladed prop and looked very close to scale. The engine was more powerful than a Baby Bee.

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>My first one was a Cox Super Mini Stunt Plane 0.20 pee wee
>powered.
>I had a P-40 Cox plane before this one but it died on the
>first flight.
>I flew the Super Mini in 1967. Flew it for a hole summer. It
>was glued back together many times. On its last flight I
>crashed it & broke the crank. I was 11 then, much fun. I
>found its bones looking for something else. Brought back
>memorys. I had to share.

I had the "Little Stinker " version of this one, too. Never flew worth a darn - in fact, it might have had only one partial flight.

I had attempted flights in about 1966 with a Beginner's Ringmaster Bipe with a TD .049. But the noise scared me and I ended up running out of the circle, and the airplane was so fast that even my dad couldn't fly it and crashed it into the field box.
My first complete successful flight was with a Cox P-51 (olive drab Allison version) in about 1968.

I had 3 of those. Still have 2 of the engines. Yeah never flew worth a darn but sure where fun seeing them dangle on the end of the lines.

Patrick: You were a good flyer, if your first successful flight was with that particular Cox model, which wasn't known for easy flying.

My first succesful flights were with the Cox Spitfire around 12970. I tried to fly the trainer but always crashed it. Man were those fun days!

I semi flew a Cox PT19, but I really learned on a Goldgerg 'Lil Wizard. I doubt that I would be able to fly that little Cox bipe. even today.