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Winter Sportster
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"What a Fun Life."
Zipper's First Flight
July 24th, 2024
So, Zipper got its first flight in the front yard. After a failed first attempt, which had it running off its foam board runway, we regrouped and put in a fine first flight.
As is my custom, the elevator was a bit too sensitive, and needs to have its throw reduced (done), and the nose gear needed a bit of outward bend to keep the lines tight...though how much "grip" its wooden wheels have on its runway is questionable. So, I'm gonna scrounge through the prop box and see if I can find a reverse pitch 6x3 to help quell the massive torque coming from the Babe Bee.
Otherwise, we're good. Unfortunately, I seem to have a shortage of energy here lately, and didn't feel like attempti...
So, Zipper got its first flight in the front yard. After a failed first attempt, which had it running off its foam board runway, we regrouped and put in a fine first flight.
As is my custom, the elevator was a bit too sensitive, and needs to have its throw reduced (done), and the nose gear needed a bit of outward bend to keep the lines tight...though how much "grip" its wooden wheels have on its runway is questionable. So, I'm gonna scrounge through the prop box and see if I can find a reverse pitch 6x3 to help quell the massive torque coming from the Babe Bee.
Otherwise, we're good. Unfortunately, I seem to have a shortage of energy here lately, and didn't feel like attempti...
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A Little Fun Flying at Breezy Hill before our Club Meeting
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Here we are, getting in some flying on a hot, but fairly calm afternoon just before our Monthly Club Meeting. I had worked to fix a warp in the Flite Streak that was given to me at Summer S.M.A.L.L. It flew with a sharp outward bank, but some time with a heat gun now has it stuck straight out on its 52" steel cables. Flyer Billy had a few problems with his Black Widow powered "Bee-Tween", only ...
My Scientific Models "Zipper" Control Liner is ready...First Flight Coming Soon.
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Getting ready for the first flight of my scratch-built 10% Scientific Models "Zipper". The little .049-powered control line model will fly on 35 feet of Spiderwire.
The Breezy Hill Canned Food Fun-Fly
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June 29th, 2024 The Breezy Hill Flyers held their annual fundraiser for the Chester, Illinois Area Christian Food Pantry. They raised $215 in cash donations and collected a bunch of non-perishable food items for local families. It was HOT, but we flew through most of the day, having fun for this great charity.
S M A L L Moments 2024
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Some video from last week's summer S.M.A.L.L. Fly-In near Little Rock, Arkansas.
My Micro Draco finally gets a calm morning to fly around the Hill.
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Got a calm morning, and put in some flights with Micro Draco, just before the wind came back up. This time, it was "Camera Boarded" with two key fob cameras strapped to its nose, for several trips in the morning air. I'm finally getting the flap/elevator relationship dialed in, and practiced with it during these flights.
Draco Goes Flying, But Missed the Eclipse
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Well, my plans didn't go as planned. I'd originally wanted to launch Draco with some GoPro cameras on board for a flight during totality of last week's solar eclipse, but got caught up in the whole spectacle, and missed launching the Red Dragon into the darkness. So, I just took it around the hill afterward to enjoy the break from the steady winds of the past few weeks. Still a fun Springtime f...
An early O.S. Max .10 idling without its "Bow Tie" Exhaust Restrictor.
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After a friend on You Tube asked me about running old engines without their exhaust restrictors. I decided to run one of my 1960's O.S. Max .10's with its "Bow Tie" exhaust valve removed to check its low end/idle. It actually idled quite well with an APC 7x4 prop on 15% Wildcat fuel, and a #8 O.S. Glow Plug. The video has extended time with the engine idling, which it did quite well...running d...
O. S. Max III .15 Engine Test
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An old O.S. .15 gets a turn on the stand. I don't have as good a reference source for the history of Japanese engines as American products, but sort of figure this to be a mid-1960's example. Prop is an M.A. 8x4. Fuel is .15% Wildcat.
1960's Fox .15 R/C Test Run
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March 11th, 2024 The Fox .15 R/C (throttled) gets a test run on the stand. According to my Dannels book, this version (rotating exhaust restrictor) came out in 1969, though the base engine goes back to 1962 or so. After the to-be-expected de-gooping/flushing of the spray bar, the Fox actually fired up and ran quite well. Its idle was totally acceptable, though the tiny stop screw is missing, an...
Belleville Swap Meet
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A short clip of the Swap Meet at Belleville, Illinois yesterday. March 2nd, 2024
My Micro Draco's 1st Flight 2 29 24
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On a cold, calm morning, my Micro Draco gets its first front yard flights, packing its key fob cameras along for the ride.
Cox 049 Diesel Conversion
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A short test-run of another engine that will be powering the Q-Tee in its 5th video. Apologies!!! The prop used is a 7X3 Windsor...NOT a 7X4 as noted in the video. Sorry for the mistake!
Flying the AR Wing in the Cow Pasture on Ground Hog Day, 2024
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Another short flying video, this time of my AR Wing, cruising around on a 70°F day in February. The little flying wing will be my intro to F.P.V. flying, once I decide to lay out the cash for a system. Right now, it's getting some flight time, just blasting around around the sky. Flying wings are notoriously difficult to get some good quality, in-flight videos, and I'll probably try putting the...
My 2-Meter B.o.T. gets some Evening Air Time back in July, 2017.
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While going through some old drives, I found a series of flights I'd made with my little Bird of Time sailplane back on July 8th, 2017. It's some pretty nice footage, so I loaded it up for my channel. Packing a GoPro on its wingtip, the glider makes a sunset trip, powered by a Cox Tee Dee .049 on a pylon, with fuel measured to give it about a two minute run. The video is a full flight, and is m...
Flying at Breezy Hill's "Frozen Finger Fun-Fly" January 6th, 2024.
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Flying at Breezy Hill's "Frozen Finger Fun-Fly" January 6th, 2024.
The Breezy Hill R/C Flyers' "Frozen Fingers Fun Fly"
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The Breezy Hill R/C Flyers' "Frozen Fingers Fun Fly"
Big Blue's First Flights January 3rd, 2024
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Big Blue's First Flights January 3rd, 2024
One more "Shop Video" about the Kadet Senior.
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One more "Shop Video" about the Kadet Senior.
Enya 19 V Test Run on a Beautiful Fall Morning
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Enya 19 V Test Run on a Beautiful Fall Morning
The 2023 Breezy Hill Fall Festival Part 1
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The 2023 Breezy Hill Fall Festival Part 1
2023 "Fall S.M.A.L.L. Fly-In" Part One.
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2023 "Fall S.M.A.L.L. Fly-In" Part One.
Vintage 1995 Model Airplane Footage RC and Control Line
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Vintage 1995 Model Airplane Footage RC and Control Line
When running a cox with a larger dubro 2oz tank or any tank for that matter do you need the tank pressurized? My cox engine ran absolutely fine if I pumped a syringe of air into the vent port in my fuel tank. The air pressure was enough to push fuel and only then did she run smooth. Maybe the brand new rubber seal has a hole preventing proper fuel flow.
Those are models the way I remember them.Made out of balsa.Thays a good looking plane.I would convert that to R/C.
Yeah, several of the Scientific control line kits have good proportions to be converted to R/C. This is a Nostalgia Build for me in that, back in 1968 or so, Zipper was my first kit that had a built-up, ribbed wing. My few previous .049 kits were sheet wing types and, as a kid, I thought this put me int he company of the "Big Boys". Thank you for your comment! Kim
Beautiful fly. Congratulations!
Thank You!!!!!!!
Looks great Kim!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I always love those 049 motors back in the seventies growing up as a kid great memories... It sounds like a pissed off bumblebee..
Yeah Man, These things are so great. I get a flash-back to being a 13 year-old whenever I mess with them. Thank you for your comment!
even getting ONE of those cox engines to start and stay running is a chore and then times 8? Amazing.
I had a bunch'a Cox engines as a kid. Does anyone remember the Graupner Kapitän? I build one from the original plans an odd 40 yrs ago. I liked how the plane came in, all dripping with castor. I fly paramotors now, and think I should be using Castor oil again; the smell of a careless childhood. The ratio between 'gluing everything back together' and 'hours of proper flying' has definitaly improved since then. Thanks for the video WS! Best, Rob ^^
Thank you for your comment Rob!
You did an outstanding job! A 10% enlargement is just the right size for a Baby Bee. I saw the Zipper in the Scientific ads in model magazines back in the 60's and 70's, but this is the first actual one I have ever seen. Looking forward to a flight video.
Thank You! It is an attractive little design, and is gonna be fun to get in the air.
Professionally built! Thanks for video.
Kim, that's Lookin' Zippy!! Those glamour shots are ready to go on a new kit box! Very Very Nice!!!
THANK YOU!!!! It's always fun to drag some dusty little project out into the light and finish it...just wish I had the energy to do it more often! Others await in the darkness, so maybe I can keep this building / finishing surge going!
Very slick looking, Kim. Very slick, indeed! Looking forward to the maiden.
Thanks Andrew!!! Gonna be "Major Flashback Territory" when it happens! Hope things are going good with you!
Wow
Had one o' these in the early 70s, Didn't like the butrate turtle back that i had to glue on with ambroid.
Yeah, same for mine. I DO have another NIB that I might try, maybe have better luck this time around. Thanks for your comment!
Incredible
That was tough!!! And a lot of fun too... I couldn't believe it when I finally hit the streamer!
It was an EPIC BATTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And...you didn't have the luxury of cannons and missiles to take it out!!! 😀😀😀🤨🤨🤨🤪😜
Don't know why, but, at first, I thought this was a "free-flight" model, not RC. Still cool.
Love your video, I had ufly 049
Thank you for your comment. These things ARE a lot of fun.
Thanks !! Like everybody said brings back a lot of memories.
Thank You!!!
Thx for sharing this. Much fun to watch
Kool
Love it ❤❤
Thank You!
Oh my gosh I had one of these and it was the most fun little plane I ever built!
Coolest H-4 model ever.
I had one of these back in the 70s bought it from Heene Models in Worthing !! Man I loved it ! Had this and Cox Sopwith Camel , fantastic ! Thanks for posting really enjoyed !!!!!
Thank you for your comment!
Oh, I so loved this! Thank you! ❤
Thank you for your comment!
I got one of these for a birthday gift in 1974
I can't even imagine what that must have sound like! It must have attracted bee keepers from miles around...
Yeah, whenever he started it, everything else came to a standstill as all the flyers came over to watch.
Wher3s the gas go? I hsd nitro rc cars as a kid
Some of the engines have an integral tank (like the one in the thumbnail), while others need an external tank. The Q-Tee has a fuel tank in its nose that used when a separate fuel tank is needed. You can see its lines right behind the engine on its left side.
love it! Nitro days in the sun were so much fun
Ah.. The old Cox .049 Thimble Drone.
I wish you had smell-o-vision😊
Yeah Me Too!!! Though it might not be a good idea in SOME cases!!!!😄
The rolling shutter effect on something that spins that fast is pretty awesome.
Yeah, some of my buds on the Cox Engine Forum noticed this is some of my first videos years ago, and pointed it out to me before I noticed it. Thank you for your comment!
My favorite was the Tee Dee. They screamed. Do you have any of those? I flew them a lot, but all U-control.
Oh Yeah! Loved them then and now, though like a thoroughbred, they could be a lot more temperamental than our beloved Bees and Golden Bees. They wanted good, clean fuel, which could be a supply challenge for a bunch a rangy kids. One of our bunch put a Tee Dee on his Veco/Dumas "Scout"...one of our favorite smaller control line planes. His first flight was on 30-something foot lines, and it was everything he could do to keep up with the plane. No stunts on this run, but later, on longer lines, it was really impressive. Here's my Bud, Ron, flying his Baby Clown with a Tee Dee .049 at Buder Park, near St.Louis several years ago. This also illustrates his bladder fuel system set-up really well: ruclips.net/video/zS_ZUVO_8M4/видео.html Tee Dees are actually back in production on a limited basis from Cox International, but many are available on Ebay also. Thank you for your post! Kim
@@Winter_Sportster Thanks for the link, good video. I remember building one of those clowns, I can't remember if it was the super clown or standard. It needed a bigger engine. I crashed it, wings broke off. I hated that. Back in the day those engines were cheap, and the plane kits as well.
That is just way too cool! Thanks for sharing this
Thank you for your comment!
I love it days gone by
Yeah, me too. Thank you for your comment!
I never cared for the COX plastic planes. My favorite was the Carl Goldberg Stuntman 23. I went through 4 of them in the mid 1970s and then scratch-built a fifth from memory in 1992. Great flyer with a golden bee, a diamond in the sky with a Tee Dee. The only COX plane I ever owned was the Messerschmidt Stunt plane with sky-blue foam wings and black plastic fuselage. Flew OK but felt a lot heavier than the balsa kit planes.
Noisy, Greasy, rather expensive and short lived engines, with parts that USED to be available. We flew TD .051s RC
Great Memory flying those, P40 was touchy to fly as well…. Too be 12 again. 🤗
Yeah, I count myself lucky to have grown up in this era, and VERY lucky to have had an adult help me learn to fly these great little planes. The Cox P-40 figured large in out little group of flyers back in the day, and I've currently got a fairly rough example waiting for its flight. There will be a video when that event takes place. Thank you for your comment, Kim
So cool we never had this perspective when we were messing with these when we were kids in the 60-70's. Had so much fun with the control line planes.........Lil Bomb.... Lil Bee... Lil Bat
YES!!!! Riley Wooten's "Flight Line Products" out of Lubbock, Texas!!!!!!!! Those little sheet wings were the first balsa control line planes I was able to "build" on my own. They were around a buck and a half when I discovered them in 1968...about the price of a couple mowed yards or 30 GRIT newspapers sold...followed by a bottle of incredibly expensive Aero Gloss dope! My favorite was the "Lil Bomb" because it "looked more like a big combat model" with its elevator mounted on short tabs out behind the wing. It first flew with the QZ Babe Bee from my PT-19 trainer, followed by another first when I got a new Babe Bee from America's Hobby Center. I learned to fly inverted with the Lil Bomb, but could only make the better part of a single lap because I HADN'T learned how to change the engine's internal fuel pick up. Thank you for the Flash Back...it's probably gonna force me to finish the replica Lil Bomb project that's been on the back burner for a few months! Kim
Of course the first engines came from the wreckage of the Cox airplanes. My Spitfire made about 3 laps before she augered in...then I built the Lil wing that actually flew like crazy. All the kids had to have one when they saw it.
@@funone8716 Yeah Man! After all the leisurely cruising with my PT, the Lil Bomb wing was like a Ferrari on JATO! Our little group of flyers eventually went through all three designs (with some repeats!), and also introduced us to our version of "combat flying". I was a confirmed 'chicken" though, as even these cheap little models were still too expensive to smack if it could be avoided. What great times!!!!
@@Winter_Sportster Great times my friend. And we learned all sorts of things about engineering, mechanics, aerodynamics, life skills! I feel very sad for most of todays youth, they are missing out on so much fun and learning. Your video has brought back much joy and nostalgia, thank you.
@@funone8716 Yeah, we were a pack of lucky, obsessed rascals for sure. I also got some basic life primers such as: How pain from a prop strike in winter is always twice as severe as one in summer... How the fuel's alcohol helps point out those cuts.... Speaking of alcohol...how its flame is invisible on a summer day, with its first warning being a crackling sound, along with a corresponding bubbling of the plane's paint! I'm now retired, but even as back then, my first thought of the day is, "Wonder if it's gonna be windy?" Thank you for your comment! Kim
.051 TD were our favorites!
Yeah Man! Tee Dee's are wonderful! I got a couple lined up for the Q-Tee's next day out. Thank you for your comment! Kim
Love it
Thank You! It was a great day!!!!
Sweet flyer...I still watch the mudd dubber vid .
Thank you! Ole Mud Dabber is STILL in the game and awaiting yet another engine swap...the old dog needs a little em ore "poke'!
Looks like fun!
Had a Cox Curtiss A25 Dive Bomber in the early 70's. Motor never ran for more than a few seconds no matter what we tried. One day whilst trying to get it to start it caught fire and melted the whole nose. That was the end of it.
I loved flying them back in the 60s
G'day to you,when I was a Kid back in the UK, my Dad bought me a Line Controlled Cox Helldiver, brought back memories!
I can smell that video.
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Brilliant!. I used to have a Cox Black Widow .049 back in my mid teens, iirc there used to be a muffler you could fit to them. Seeing these run brings back happy memories.
Thank You! I still love these things in all their noisy, oily crankyness! The Black Widows were/are great versions of the Cox reed valve family.
If only someone would invent something like an electric motor, something far superior in in every way.... then we wouldn't need to listen to the insanely obnoxious noise of this bullshit motor. what a joke. I would rather kill myself than fly this piece of shit around.
Great camera angle. What kind of camera and how did you mount it? Thanks.
I use some old key fob cameras on balsa "selfie sticks" or just stuck to the wing with Scotch tape. Sometimes, I'll launch two at time, or singularly with a lead ballast button taped to the opposite wing to keep the Q-Tee at its proper CG. You can see them in this video: ruclips.net/video/quC_bRTre1o/видео.html Thank you for your comment! Kim