soon as you said 49 the bell starts ringing in background..life is good

This is one of the all-time great aeromodelling videos. It has everything in it! Fabulous stuff: old boys young!👍🍻

Very cool, I actually have a windward that I rescued, still in kit form, in my collection that I need to get built. I fell in love with this plane when I was building a wanderer in the 70's. Fun video guys!

A piece of history, the Herky bear would be proud of you. Great video.

I used to fly .049 Ukies in the late 50's to early 60's, I only flew Cox engines on a mix of Cox RTF plastic planes and balsa kits. While I never owned one or even saw one run, I always had the impression the OK Cub and the RTF planes were of a lower quality. Cox ruled that time period, even though I saw a lot of guys flying .049 engines, I never even saw a OK Cub engine in the hands of a flyer, they were pretty much dead. They might have been popular somewhere else, but not here in Okla.

Nice flights guys! Just great to see you two out having a good time. Thanks!

I had a gentle lady with a power pod. Good memories

Hehehe...that's too much fun! The last glider needs to be dubbed the Nap-of-the-Earth Glider ;-) Well done! See you in the Air!

Hey guys I forgot to mention that was a good story and nice little travel back in time to hear about that OK cub 0.49 motor.. whatta beautiful plane that u have therr.I luv luvvv luv those old school planes and motors... I learned on a Cox 189 Cessna with a 0.49 motor and a cox Sanwa 2 ch radio. That was a very expensive bird for a 10 yr kid back in 1983. I flew crashed , and rebuilt that 🐦 bird from 1983 to 1988. I killed it furr good in 1988.. and then 1 day I found the exact same bird 🐦 with a radio all complete at a flea market for $40.. talk about getting lucky..anyways I just wanted to comment on that Kool viiddd and plane. 👍🙃👍

Windwards are great. It was my first glider back around 1973 at the bluffs in Long Beach, California. Now I have a Chinese ASW-28 but not flown yet. Thanks for the show, Thailand Paul

Outstanding! Classic glider and engine combo.

Marks Models gliders where the BOMB Love Them All

Some old beauties there 😁👍

Yall got the coolest videos.

Fun flight

Richies last flight reminded me of a light weight thermal glider with 2.8 m wing span I had about 40 years ago. Usually it climed slowly but steadily with a Cox 0.49 BabeBee mounted on a pylon. But sometimes, if motor was not running with highest possible speed, it refused to climb. That´s how you become expert in flying big models for long time at very low altitude. 😁

My dad had around 3 ok cubs another 1/2 A size engine of that time was the Halland hornet

Thank you for the history nice video

Awesome video. Btw, the .024 was available in glow. I have two. One on the Cub Go-Kart and an airplane version.

That was cool, I had that experience with my Graubner sail-plain with 0.51 cox TD it stays 5 to 7 feet from the ground for a long time with external tank, was also to rich, was fun

Superb guys......

Very funny video ! Enjoyed listening you laughing and having fun with such a nice glider and small engine OK cub. I noticed JR quattro Tx made specially for park fliers if i remember well.

Another great video guys

What is that lovely little model in the end still please? Great to see people having good old fun!

i have one of these from a bunch i bought from a guy, seems they dont peform well but it is before the cox days

Beautifull flights.

sure would like to see u and richie start making vids again. glow is still hanging on but soon to be a thing of the past

What a Awesome flight

great video, love the gassers.

wow nice flight! I'm surprised that little Ok Cub was able to pull that huge glider around! Would love to see more of that plane flying around. I havn't flown nitro/gass planes since the late 90s but recently got a Cox lazy bee witih a Cox .049 in it that I'm looking forward to flying. For what ever reason I want to get back into nitro/gass powered planes. Especially the little cox engine powered ones.

Very cool

Like me, you guys sure like variety in model aviation. I have an old K&B .049 and a WenMac .049.

bonjour , good slow model !!!

a fellow named Ralph said the Cox engines are a lot better and thought the reed valve may be the reason. my off hand opinion is that castor oil should be the only oil. Mostly you have to run these little ones for a while to get predictable performance. in modern terms, If a Cox 094 was 50 watts and a peewee was 25 watts this engine is about 35 watts. it sounds like a solid engine.

Bought an OK cub New in 1960.. I NEVER got it to run Still have it tho... Have had dozens of engines over the years. But that pesky OK was the only one that ever defeated me. Curiously that Windward does better without the badly running OK.:-)

Great video! Like many I am also going back to my beginnings (Balsa, silkspan, and Cox engines). I have seen a few of these Herkimer motors available from time to time and you mentioned the availability of parts. Is there a glow plug replacement that is also available? I"d probably take the plunge if I knew I could get a spare plug.

Mike & Richie???? How you fellers doin???? I know u guys aren't chasing any fly aways 🙃🙃🙃.. it's a bit to kold still....haha..just wanted to say hi and hope u 2 guys are doing alright 👍👍👍👍..I've been out flying 3 times thus far in 2024 in March.. weather is getting nice here in southern Colorado..anyways hope all is well guys...take care. RAY FROM COLORADO 👍👍🙃🙃

I just got one of these, the .049 B. Do I screw in the needle all the way to run it or unscrew it a bit?

Look at the prices!!

The prop looks pretty small for an 049. I’ve had a few 049 2m gliders and they all climbed much better than that.

OK Cub and Testers are the same company, yes?

How are you sir ?✌✌😅😅👋👋