As you can surely tell, I used to be a big fan of Cox engines. Their littlest engine was the famous .010, a real screamer.
Even though I never actually had one, it inspired me to draw up this little glider. What a little cutie this would have been!
The rudder-only control system would have used an Ace actuator (remember those?). I actually did a lot of rudder-only flying with
a Midwest Esquire and Lil' Esquire and liked it a lot. There's only so much you can do with rudder, so I learned to appreciate the
beauty of a model airplane soaring in the breeze. You don't see that much anymore, at least at your typical R/C club field.
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