When I started flying at a very early age, I started with the Cox PT-19 Trainer and began entering Pattern Ukie Contests a couple years later. Finding a Brand New, unopened PT-19 on Ebay and winning the bid, I decided not to open and fly it as I originally thought I would. So I found another one on ebay and won that bid too. I decided before I use the stock Glow Nitro engine, I would see, just for the heck of it to try to fly it with a brushless motor. Here is how it went. These were my stock antique Cox planes destroyed in the fire.
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Dave Herbert
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Nice work, a greeting from Italy.
My first plane was also the Cox .049 PT19, got it for Christmas 1985. Will never forget the first time I fired it up. It just screamed it’s head of, and the smell of the nitro methonal exiting the exhaust has hooked me ever since. I still have the motor just sitting waiting to be put to use once again.
Thanks for sharing 🙂 Was hooked in -74 and got my first uc in -78 I think it was a Cox ?Hustler? and my first rc crash in -80 with a Graupner Piper Pa 18 Super Cub Still loving flight Thanks again 🙂
I always remember the smell of the Cox fuel , my Pt 19 didnt survive many flights ( no experience enough) but gives a lot of joy in those days 🙂
as always thank u mr. Herbert for another great vid. the cox pt-19 is where i got my start 30 years ago
I had to double check this morning to confirm I had glimpsed the flying brick!!! :)~
I had a Cox PT 19 as a kid as well. That was in the 70s though. Seeing that new one in the box sure brought up exciting memories. I later had a P51 Mustang too. Thanks for showing.
My first was a T-28 with an .049 engine. Our yard was small so we had to cut the lines back to 25 or 30 feet!. Thing was so fast you couldn’t keep up with it. Then I picked up a little Cox Biplane with a .017 I think or a .019. I never could get it to stay started and had to return it. Probably only needed a glow plug, but I didn’t know that back then.
Would be neat to convert that to 3 or 4 channel RC.
City’s park Tennis court , no net ( ??’s do baseball , Sir lol) & early 70’s is where we flew all these Cox’s plane. I have no pics, but our haircut looks the same. Beautiful times, Thanks for sharing .?
Bought back memories from 50 + yrs ago as an 11 year old I had one of these with a cox .049 as a birthday present sadly , very sadly, as I recall it didn’t survive my first attempt at line controlled flight, I couldn’t find anywhere in England to get spare parts…….thanks for the memory. Please keep the vids coming.
Fun job on the electric set up Dave I too started with a cox PT-19 control line uncle got me was a kid I crashed on the first flight of course until my uncle actually made me wooden 049 kit of a Hellcat with a tee dee 049 boy that engine was very reliable it always stared up and went until one summer night we take it to a dusty baseball field with lights at the field some dirt went into the engine and it never started again. About 10 years ago me&him wanted to give u-control another shot for old times sake I got my hands on Eflite PT-19 450 ARF with park 480 1024 motor 12×6 apc it was ok it used a special esc with a push button start up with a timer to you give a chance run to your handle before take of the only problem that lines didn’t have to best pull for inverts so here’s what happen to mine lol
Please be careful at your age you make a bad smak when you get dizzy you could break your hip Please stay ok friend!