Wow. Amazing little engine started right up! So many memories of us boys in the neighborhood with control line planes and these little engines spitting castor oil all over us. Wonderful sounds, wonderful smells!

Thanks for sharing a great video

Lovely 0.49 ... Undestru table... Little machine in Colombia when I was young has a lot of fun with a little U control line and free fly balsa models

The plucky .049 engine. I brazed a dome onto a piston. She ran tough for 2 minutes before melting the solder. I had the Baja Bug and the Stuka dive bomber. Never got the hang of U-Line Controller. Crashed thrice.

The history of Cox engines is quite interesting. And it put a vast number of these things within reach of a lot of young folks with a small budget. That crankcase that is an extrusion was a big key to lowering cost. They had made cast ones, but they cost more to make and a number of the castings had flaws and had to be scrapped. I've known a number of women who wore very fetching perfume, but no perfume quite so good as the smell of the model airplane nitro fuel.

I had a P51 Mustang plane when I was a kid and remember it well 👍

I've got a bunch of those. Even some rate ones. Oh how I wish they still made those little gems! Kids today don't know what there missing

So good❤

I mounted a .20 to a block of wood once. Whatever works. And I've used fuel that's ten years old. It always worked for me

I have the same engine never been ran it's mint👌

Wow, thanks for this. It brought back some memories. The last time I can remember seeing one of these powering active flight, was in Texas in the mid 1980s. This video is odd to me, for two reasons. First, because it inexplicably showed up in my "feed"of recommended videos, today. I'm not a subscriber, and your channel only has 439 subs. Secondly, because (and correct me if I'm wrong), you seem to have a British accent. Which in and of itself is NOT "odd" to me. What IS odd, is that the model airplane that engine was mounted in, the last time I saw it in use back in the 80s, was a British Spitfire. Lil weird. Lol

Found something like this in the basement of somebody i knew after they died was quite recently and a have to get some things to make sure its still in running order hopefully it still works if not I'll give to somebody for parts who uses this type of engine

That looks like a spring starter from a Wen Mac engine

Balsa kit "Big Otto" airplane would not fly with the little .049 engine. Should have used OS .21

I used to have one, now I bought a star wars cox plane, I only cannot remember how much volt the battery has to be 6 volt I believe?

What glow igniter are you using?

1 complete turn then release not 3.

nitro doesn't go bad.

Wrong feul.