This is a scratchbuilt RC plane built from plans. Made of balsa wood and covered with Coverite Microlite film. Has a lightweight Berg radio receiver and Hitec micro servos controlling rudder and elevator. Engine is a Cox .010, the smallest engine ever mass produced. I recently purchased this engine which was made in the 60s and refurbished it for flying service. Very fascinating engine, not many people fly them anymore. Mostly sought after by collectors who hoard them up uselessly instead of putting them into the air as they were intended. Run time is about 1.5 minutes on 2cc of 25% nitro glow fuel. Most folks have never seen one of these engines run, much less fly!
@TeeBeeZee Do you have a reliable online source for smaller cox motors? All I can find is a shop on ebay for the 49. Ive never had a gasser before and these look so simple even I could do it.
It sure is something else compared to the electric planes im currently messing with. The pricetag on the bigger fuel planes is also a bit of a hurdle. The cox ones are supposed to be cheap I think?
Thanks. I flew it again this morning. It’s almost 3 years old and still flies great but I did upgrade the engine to a TD .020 recently. That old TD .010 is now flying a Page Boy I built earlier this year. It flew again today as well. Good stuff.
They just dont make em like they used to anymore. This thing is crazy and I want one.
@1234Guitarman1234
With enough wing dihedral, most model planes will roll with full rudder deflection. Works best when rolling opposite the propeller rotation, left in most cases. A small amount of rudder causes a banking and yaw action. A large amount causes enough roll force to rotate it all the way around.
how come it does rolls if it doesn’t have ailerons?
@TeeBeeZee i have a guillows hawker hurricane ruberband plane. and i am going to try to make it an rc
@lumbermouth Are you building one?
@TeeBeeZee thank you very much, this will help me a lot
@lumbermouth The receiver was using a 270mah NiCd battery when this video was made but has been swapped to a 400mah NiMH battery that has more capacity but yet lighter weight to compensate for the larger, heavier engine. RadicalRCdotcom makes nice battery packs and I’m using some of them in my smaller planes with good results.
@TeeBeeZee i meant the receiver. sorry
@lumbermouth Yes, you have to heat the glow head element with a battery to start the engine. This is true of all glow engines. I use a standard glow driver from Tower Hobbies and just hold it down on the head to make contact until the engine starts. I installed a larger Cox TD .020 engine last week. It’s much more powerful than the .010 and the plane is very fast now. The old TD .010 has been installed on a new airplane and still runs great.
@TeeBeeZee do u have to hook up a battery to that?
thats a cute pull start noise.
excellent
sweet little engines hard to find and when found are expensive
This is the easiest of all the RC planes I’ve built but requires some experience to fly. Frankly, you should start with a trainer plane and a good instructor, then proceed to building planes. The skills obtained during the building process will be needed to tune, maintain, and make repairs on the plane. In short, building these types of planes is a rewarding experience. Obtaining, maintaining, and operating engines like the TD .010 is a whole new segment of the hobby.
could you please make me one.
It’s still flyable. I plan take it along with other Cox-powered planes to the SMALL Fly-In in Little Rock, AR this June. Flew it there last year as well.
do you fly that model animore or do you just use it for display.
ahh!! nothing like a good old Cox from Santa Ana CA.
this is great i am building a guillows p51 mustang balsa kit with a cox .020 i was thinking about doing the same thing and making it rc and just having no throttle control but i dont have money for a radio/reciever so i am just using the control line
Hey can you send me the plans please
Thanks. 2 years later, the LaStick is still going strong! Always a crowd pleaser. Tons of flights on it, now. It’s hanging above my computer desk as I type this.
that plane is great its also funny to see that your plane stayed up after it ran out of fuel longer than most gliders do
I built one from free PDF plans I found somewhere out there, set up mine with ailerons.. I gotta get artound to finishing it
nice plane!