This is about how I remember the times I've been at the RC flight club. An hour of tinkering just to get the engine running right, followed by 2 minutes of ecstasy and then go home in time for dinner. 😂

This brings back so many memories as a child and my father doing this with me. Now 40+ years later thank you. Miss you Dad.

If you Narrow the line spaceing, at the handle 1/2" , it will make it less sensitive & smoother to fly. Just an idea that may help the young fella . I first went "solo" aged 5, 51 yrs ago 🤣🤣 Great to see kids getting involved in the hobby. Well done young man 👏👏👏 Have fun guys 👍

That brings back my childhood. That first control line flight lead me to building two experimental aircraft as a adult and flying for over 20 years. Thank-you so much for sharing!!!!

I had a plane like that as a child in the eighties, the engine was a Cox something. The noise was infernal and the plane didn’t fly more than maybe a minute or two. But my father and I had a great time together.❤

Oh yes. I flew these in the late 60’s. Used Enya, Fox, OS Max and Cox engines. If we busted one up, we made a flying wing out of the parts. No wheels needed. Once it ran out of fuel, we ran backwards and caught it so we didn’t break a wooden prop. The fuel was made of castor oil and nitro. We smelled like that all day. My trick for a cold day start was to lightly heat the head with a propane torch my dad had for plumbing. I flew Estes rockets at the same time.

So many years ago we did this. Forgotten how much noise they made. No wonder we lost so many good flying spots. Thanks so much for the video and nice to see the youngster getting their feet wet.

love it my old Neighbor and my Ring master!!Jim woods a Hang gliding instructor got me flying you controls when i was a kid I have a Voo Doo need to cover and fly Old School again!

my first U-Control plane was a COX PT-19 trainer, then I graduated to the COX P-40 War Hawk... those were fun days... thanks for posting this... I now have RC, they're fun, but, in my opinion, not as much fun as the control line planes...

Well done little man and now a big plane. 😁 great sound👍

That brings back so many memories. I didn't realise people still fly control line, with so many ARTF radio models now available.

Love control line flying, try and find yourself a Cox .049 motor with tank and it will be a little easier to start and adjust.. Keep posting.. love it!

Oh, 049 and control line. My childhood!

I got one of them .49 engines. I use it as a fan in the shop when I don't want to hear other people. That does a great job

something, something 049. Great memories from the 50's. Recall we had a SPRING that helped START the engine.

Best way for a beginner to fly CL is arm straight, stiff wrist, just raise or lower your arm.

Considering the Cox planes of the 60s, it's amazing that so many of us old guys still have fingers.

OK Cub engine, I'm pretty sure, I have one, along with many Cox engines. It's a shame that nobody makes a decent 1/2A engine anymore. All the recent Cox engines available are built from mostly NOS parts, plus a few reproduction parts, I don't think OK engine parts are available at all anymore. I never did learn to fly control line, I got dizzy too easy, and never got the hang of RC either, but, I did ok with free flight. Nice to see that people are still interested in control line and small "antique" glow engines. Gives me the warm fuzzy's for a more innocent and simpler time.

It's been more than sixty years since I was doing that. Still, it brings back great memories!.

When I was a kid, the first thing I bought/made was a starter stick, so I wouldn't lose a finger starting my old cox .049 motor

The usual stubborn Cox engines... 15 20 mins of frustration to get it started, for 2 minutes of fun😂🤣

Great, nice fly, characteristic noise, i had a one Cox P40 Warhawk, fifhty years ago, and i learn fly with this, and introduced me to the world of hobby, many good memories

I remember going out with my dad in the early 70es flying his home made control line planes

That's the first video I ever saw of an OK Cub flying they are fun little engines

Hey Tony! nice to see the young kids flying CL, I was 6 when I started flying. Sweet Sky Ray with the clear orange covering! I am building one now.

Flew combat kittens with my older brother in the mid 70's. Cox O49 with dual ports and big external fuel tanks(low budget). Learned in the backyard with enough inside and outside loops and inverted flying to keep the dizziness to a minimum. Great fun.

How cool is that, I have flown many of combat events, came in 2nd place once, event ended with head on collision. What FUN. T square, Flight Sreak, Ring Master, Nobler, Cougar.

I remember having those in the late 70s & a vw beetle control line. I miss those days😊

THANK YOU!!! That was GREAT FUN! I have one on my kitchen table waiting to fly!!!! GOOD CLEAN FUN!! KUDOS!!!

I had one of these about 35 years ago! Very cool!

Way back in the late '60's a friend of mine and I tied crepe paper to the tails of those planes and tried to cut the paper streamers with the prop. Two people in the same center spinning around. Great Fun!. Bought more balsa and paper on the way home. so much fun for a couple of bucks.

In the early 1970s, I loved flying my Cox .049 powered PT 19! Best birthday present I ever got!! Yep!! seemed like it took forever to get the engine to run!!! 😊 Hey! Maybe I should get something like this together when my grandson gets a little older!

My Dad used to build these from balsawood and paper kits back in the 60's and 70's. He and his buddies would fly them until they crashed them then build new ones.

Contemplating always helps 🤣 Nice video Tony 👍

Oh wow...an OK Cub .049! That was my very first model airplane engine back in 1959. I don't think they've made them for over 50 years now. Always had a hard time getting it to start and some days I'd just give up as the battery drained down. My friend's Baby Bee ran way better.

Wow this reminds me my father used to fly way back 35 years even we have mustang ha ha

Flew all different types of these in the early 2000s and late 90s with my dad when I was little he taught me how they where from his childhood and his dad never took him to fly these. Taught me a lot about engines from a young age very valuable toy. You won't see shit like that around anymore just ipads and safe spaces

I also was heavy into model plain in the late 50s .the first plane I had was yellow and held together by rubber bands As I grew in the 60s I began flying larger and faster planes.All were control line. I tried in recent years to get one so I could Introduce my grandchildren into the fun if flying model planes.never got into radio control planes

I only tried this ones. After 5 turns I got so dizzy, I crashed the plane on purpose and almost fell down. Ater that was sick to the stomach for 30 minutes. ( sea sick like ). Went into RC after that.

When I was a teenager young teenager many years ago we used to fly our control line airplanes in the housing track circles we had 049 Cox engines on them we had a blast when we were younger there's nothing like that nowadays

That why I converted all my planes to electric, no hard start issues

I once bought a second hand plastic spitfire control line plane from a car boot sale (where lots of people come to sell their old stuff out of the boot of their cars or on pasting table stalls). At the time I didn't have fuel but I used to just swing the thing round me over the local green. I have a brand new tiny cox engine I bought off of fleabay from canada a few years back that is the same as the engine that was in that control line spitfire. I still have the cylinder block somewhere for the control line model

I was from around this area where you're flying. long ago, and happy to see they still can fly -anything- there. We're losing flying sites a lot faster now. This video brings back the smells and tinnitus-making noise, and memories of the prop smacking your finger and making a cut where the nitro fuel would get in and burn. You could spend an hour just trying to get the thing started sometimes, then crash after a few seconds. Good times. I say that ironically and a little sarcastically, because while I spent a great part of my youth with these, the air time I got out of it was very short. Those little self-contained glo bee gloplug igniters were always unreliable for me, too weak, no duration, and I went back to hard wired plug lighters with a gel cel battery in a little wooden tool box. I also used a leather glove, chicken stick or electric motor starter after a while, to same my hands from getting smashed by the props. I had open areas to fly in but nothing you could ROG take-off from, so it required a buddy to hand-launch your plane and they often threw it badly, causing instant crashes. I grew up in a very popular U-control era and built or bought many planes, crashed every one, but found I couldn't beat the dizziness of circle flying. Three laps and I was ready to fall down or puke, never did get the hang of it. And to me, circle flying was also kinda boring and limiting, even with combat and stunt flying as possibilities... That, and the glo fuel engines were sooo cranky, greasy, noisy, dirty, smelly... I got into RC gliders instead, then later, electrics, once they became practical. My biggest plane spans three meters but i mostly fly two meter wings or home made pusher prop electric foamie jets. One of the things I'll do in retirement is make RC versions of classic ukie designs like the Jetco Shark and Nobler, because they look great. But no $%#&#$ control-line wires for me. lol. I got to see real pros fly ukies at the AMA nationals in Indiana one year. Also saw them fly a pulse jet ukie, inside a fenced cage. Loudest thing I ever heard in my life when it started. It was terrifying. But I was glad to have seen it in person just once.

A lots a memories there. Cheers!

I had one as a kid I paid for it weekly out of pocket money at a model shop it was second hand when I finally got it and managed to fly it it made it about 1 and a half rotations before it hit the ground and broke the nose and engine off and that was my entire experience of control line flying lol. Oh and it was a bitch to start lol

Bravo......my plane had a kick spring......work ever time.....cheers

Oh man the memories you guys!!my childhood !!

scientific American Boy was built over ten years ago and I never flew it. Good to see someone enjoy it.

Like many others this brings back so many memories. The cox 049 engines Golden Bee? and Black Widow. lil Jumping Bean and lil Satan combat planes. This makes me want to go fly one again.

As a kid I had a Cox Fokker Triplane , I have flown a lot of u-Fly planes in my day and the triplane was hands down the most fun , it could take off in 2 feet of distance,. I would take off and fly upside down in less than 6 feet then come back normal and tear up my oppenents streamer on their plane and win before one lap was finished .Then they stopped letting me use the Tri-plane unless there was someone else with a bi or tri-plane . many fun memories

Hahahaha I had a few of those cox planes. We used to set it up to fly by itself in a wide circle lol. You can make it radio controlled quite easily now. Lots a fun.

That thing looks fun but man it sounds like a mosquito😂 I would need earmuffs

I remember having one of those and I flew it with my dad at my elementary school playground on the weekend and I used to love the smell of the exhaust and you have to watch your fingers when cranking it up

Beautifull !!

i remember watching a Donald Duck cartoon where Donald flies a control line plane. Chip and Dale mess with him and Dale steals the plane and flies it from the cockpit.

I rember controlling a model plane like that. I an 69, The plastic planes were always too heavy. The lighter and more powerful planes could do a lot more than just flying around in circles.

I like to think as control line flying is similar to vinyl record … You can listen to digital sound and download so many albums and music but the ritual of playing vinyl record is special 😊 As to control line flying it’s giving the pilot the analog feeling in flight … This year only increase in vinyl records went up 200% in sales first time for over 40 years As I prefer control line over RC I like to compare it to the old ways of listening to music 🤣😎

Nice, you guys know how to have a good time. I am 76 and love to watch control line and RC. I could never fly control line without getting dizzy and disorintated.

Had to put almost a quart of fuel through one of these growing up. Great memories.

Used to be another brand besides cox in .049 engines...testors, yeah like those little paint bottles!! Regards from Monterrey, México.

I had a PT-19 that was made by Cox, the engine was a 049 and it went great, and there was a 020 the pee wee and the 010 was the tee dee the 010 was very hard to start Good Times in the 60s

Back in the early 60s. I've still got a scar on my hand from the prop.

Wow.. this is so cute 😊

I would have stuck a nose cone on it and used a drill the spin up that motor, no flicking! Lol.

It brigs back great memories, oh the smell of Cox nitro fuel and heavenly sound of 20 thousands RPMs and the slime....

So many memories! As kids, we scratch-built the craziest control line planes! My Dad taught me to model generally. Great times, and so happy to see the little guy here so happy! [edit] - Man - that looks like a Flite Streak @ 6:40!

My first CL was a Scientific ZIG ZAG with a Cub .049. Too much fun!!!

Wow, you r so bravo. Using ur middle finger to start engine...

To all of you mentioning memories, great times and all... control line is STILL GOING! There's a decent supply of needed supplies and new kits are even being made. CONSIDER REJOINING THE FUN!

The American boy was the first control line plane I built as a kid , flew it with a cox 049 basic but a great flier

One thing I remember about flying ucontrol..only ever run half a tank of fuel. Trust me. It’s more than enough

Back in the '70s my dad bought me a straight line P-51 airplane and it came with a round 6 volt battery A1 cell with a slide on clip for the priming of it but it never did start never did fly it I guess the battery was dead I don't know I was just a kid back then

Great video, I really enjoyed this. I used to fly planes like this plus RC planes, boats, and cars 45 years ago.

These were big when I was young, late 70s. There were cars too.

I love it!!! Gotta teach them early in life....

Old good times...👍🇧🇷

I had a PT trainer/Stuka/P40 planes with the Cox black widow motor and cut my fingers several times starting these damn things😳😂 but fun to fly since remote control wasn’t around👍

I havnt seen them in years , wow the fun i had with cox engines

Reminds me of Testers airplanes..

Excellent! I'm building a Brodak (Goldberg) Wizard. Can't wait!

Yup this is what I flew for years long before “remote control” was cheap enough to buy.. Cox was king in the 1970’s

When I was very young, my dad would build several of planes that looked like these. Never painted them because when I got bored, I would crash them

Lots of fun!

Cool to see the next generation keeping it alive. Awesomeness

Just wait for the FAA to see this, they will require remote ID 😂

Like others, I had the Cox PT19, but it was a pain in the butt. Then some came out with an electric plane called a Superstar. Flew it until I couldn’t get replacement parts.

pure fun at it's finest

25 percent nitro! best for the cox .049

nothing like nitro fuel in a propeller finger cut!

Is that a Flite Streak plane on the ground? Sure looks like it. I had one of those with a Fox 36x. That is an awesome CL plane.

I bought the Guilows P40 Warhawk and mated it with McCoy 049 glow plug and fuel tank. It's maiden flight in A school playground ended in disaster , it caught fire internally, managed to put out the fire but gave up on it

love it!

As a kid I've flown( or tried to fly) COX plastic U-control models. They were overweight and underpowered. They weren't much more than bricks on a string.

Back in the 60s, my dad and his buddies (all WWII vets) flew control line models there. They simply called it "Cumberland" and I had no idea the field is still there. Has it operated continually since then, or was it resurrected recently? Always thought is must have been shut down years ago due to noise and lack of interest. Glad to see it's still there.

I had a spring starter on my plane.

Я в детстве тоже занимался авиамоделированием Сейчас на пятоке, где модели запускали, фашисты окопов нарыли

The good ole days when a dad shows his son how to play with his COX

It's over propped and down on power switch a two blade.

Yip.. definitely also spent more time flicking a cox then flying a plane..

Using your finger is a good way to get your finger brused. Personal experience