Control line airplane experts?

[romulus22]

Friend and I were at an antique mall today and this old looking control line plane caught my eye. It's definitely seen better days but the price seemed really good so I went ahead and bought it.

Any of you guys think you could put a timeframe this might have been built by looking at its main components. It definitely looks like a kit by looking at one of the wing pieces inside the tear on the wing.



Engine reads McCoy 29

[romulus22]

An update on the research I've found. This kit was made by sterling models and introduced in 1952 and hasn't changed since. I found a kit online at amazons its still being sold. Now I need to research the McCoy engine and see its time frame.

[SFC K]

Wow, that is old. I see similar ones on the bay from time to time. Neat looking plane for how old it is. Is it missing the exhaust or does it just exit out the port? Seems the fuel would cover the wing really bad.

[RC10resto]

This may help

http://www.engine-display.com/products/sold/de1422.htm

[romulus22]

From my new found interest in old tether cars, which made me look at this old plane in the first place, I don't believe these old engines ran any exhaust. I don't think the fuel line is in the proper spot as it would most likely burn it in no time. But what you see is what they ran.

But to add another update I found a release date on this style .29 McCoy, 1958. So if I had to guess this plane was built and run in the early to mid sixties. Possibly later but just like anything people tend to use the newer engines if available. So that's my best guess.

I just got done tearing down this engine, cleaning and re lubing everything. It is in great shape and I bet would fire up with ease. I might actually have to go buy some fuel and castor oil and see this run. Through my reading these old engines had to run with castor oil in the fuel to keep the temps down. It's physical size is no bigger than a modern .12 engine.

[romulus22]

This may help

http://www.engine-display.com/products/sold/de1422.htm

Yep. That's the same info as I found on a different site. Thanks for the info.

[SFC K]

The castor oil adds more lubricant. A friend of mine makes his own nitro/castor oil fuel and swears by it. It's also cheaper too. If you decide to fire it up, please make a video of it. I would love to hear it too.

[romulus22]

I've never "ran" any of my nitro cars without a tuned pipe. But those .12's and .15's were loud when I took a hard enough tumble and the pipe slipped off the header and I ran the car back to me like that. I'm curious to hear this run too.

[Lowgear]

The only thing I know about this plane is that the engine is called a red head but see that's already been covered. McCoy used different color heads to signify what engine it is. Like for example they have green, blue, black, etc... headed versions as well. Just some info for future reference.