[mowowie]

Anybody here remember the "Glow head"?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Wasn’t it a glow plug? I still have the scars on my finger from starting an airplane with one of those things by hand, almost 59 years ago. I’m sad my grandson won’t have that opportunity.

[kosciusko51]

Try here: http://coxengines.ca/

[al baby]

I still have a scar from prop starting one of those devil engines

[illiac]

Also some on ebay....

[Bryanw92]

The old tether planes died because RC is so cheap now. The Cox .049 engine is gone as well because brushless electric motors are cheap and much easier to deal with. If you want gas-powered fun, there are plenty of engines available for cars, boats, and planes, but they are bigger than .049. They still use the old glow plug ignition system, but the new carburetors work much better.

Don’t mourn the end of the old tethered plane with an .049 engine. Rejoice that technology has given us much better toys!!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I can still remember the smell of that fuel. It meant long, hot summer days with nothing to do but have fun.

[Roccus]

The Cox .049 and the “Red Head” McCoy .35 along with Amberoid, silk-span, hot fuel proof Dope and castor oil infused fuel kept me well occupied in my youth.

[Vinnie]

I built a boat. Used an .074. Lots of fun.

The new RC planes are incredible, jet engines , retractable gear.

Remember chasing a friends RC for miles after he lost radio contact.
The thing had 1 channel, rudder. The rudder fluttered back and forth. Plane turned depending what position you stopped the rudder.
Let’s see. Hmm either left(x) or right(0).
By jolly, it was digital.!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Had one of the things, never did get it to run.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

YES! We used to have sooooo much fun with those little engines and would wonder how something so small could generate so much power. We would take those engines and duct tape them to crudely made Styrofoam 'cars' with four little wheels then set them in the street and watch them go.. Where? No one knows! LOL The fuel would eventually eat through the Styrofoam but we sure had fun.

I had the red, white and blue P-51 that you hold on two strings and go around in circles.

Check this out! http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_sop=10&_nkw=cox+engine+049&_frs=1

[central_va]

the thing had 3 moving parts. Amazing.

[Little Ray]

Yep. Another wonderful thing from my childhood disappears.

[mowowie]

what i meant by “It seems that there is almost nothing left”
is it seems nothing left from my youth.
Here in MA i can’t even buy my nephew a cap gun..or even just caps for that matter let alone snakes or sparklers....

it’s amazing i’m still alive.

[pabianice]

The sound of the Cox .049 Glow-plug engine was the background music of my childhood! It was a great day when I discovered you could buy a spring-starter and thus save hundreds of lacerated index fingers. The smell of the castor-oil fuel burning, the high buzzing of the engine, the smell and feel of the grass you were knelling in in your brown corderoy pants, the taste of the smoke, the U-control lines waiting to pick-up the load as you whirled in a left-handed circle, trying not to crash your still tacky wet red-and-white painted "American Boy" balsa model, the sounds of the kids in the playground as a backdrop... THAT was a rare part of childhood that was bright and shiny and wonderful and all yours for an hour or so. Kind of like the TZ episode, "Walking Distance."

With the Cox .049, flying became my life's work and passion.

[mowowie]

From what i gathered from the wiki article was that Estes, The model rocket manufacturer is also out of business..........Damn.

[NCjim]

Fox super fuel - castor oil and nitro - I can still smell it!

I remember the first few times getting dizzy until I got used to turning around for a few minutes. :-)

[Syntyr]

We have grown up and play with toys like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4RezmEpqM

RC SR-71 with jet engines... Okay I WISH I had enough money to play with these but they are cool nonetheless.

[mowowie]

i was just thinking of the Cox UFO flying saucer.
Man, I always wanted that thing as a kid but never got it.......

[VeniVidiVici]

I had these. I think the dragster Evil Knieveled on me and I blew-up the Stuka.

[gorush]

You might enjoy this. I think it is extraordinary, but we’ll see if it catches on:
http://circlecycleice.com/page9.php