Cox Sky Copter

Cox Sky Copter

[@orange70383]

I loved this thing, I got one for my birthday back in the 70's. It was a lot of fun and the thing went pretty high. Unfortunately I wanted it to go higher, so I replaced the small clear plastic tank with a metal one with 3-times the capacity. Armed with the upgraded fuel tank I fired it up and let it go. Go it did, up, up, up and out of site, gone forever never to be seen again. I guess it joined up with several estes rockets that met the same fate.

[@markdigregoriosr1394]

They were extremely fun and flew great I loved mine I had.

[@HappySillyFace]

orange70383 I was lucky to live behind a huge field and did the exact same thing with the bigger tank and lost it as well then bought a new one and using the stock fuel tank lost it too but found it high up in a tree a few weeks later about 1/4 mile from where I launched it. Once I learned about wind direction (DUH?) I got real good at launching it then chasing it with my brand new 1978 Yamaha DT100E Enduro motorcycle and catching it as it was landing. If only we would have shot Super 8mm movies of this. My dad really got a kick out of watching me do this. Aw, the good ol' '70's! :-D

[@orange70383]

@@HappySillyFace I had a brand new Suzuki DS100 at the time, my dad brought it home one evening in the back of his Ranchero, I had no idea he was getting it and I was freaking out for a week looking at that beautiful bike. I'd been riding a Honda 50 mini-trail and now I had a peppy 2-stroke with 5-speeds. I road it endlessly. It made my childhood.

[@HappySillyFace]

@@orange70383 How cool. My brother got a Mini-Trail 50 in 1969 and I got a CAT Eliminator mini-bike with a pull starter like on a lawn mower and being only 8 years old, I had trouble getting it started but eventually learned. We got these on his birthday, which is Christmas and he is STILL mad at our parents for making him wait until he turned 11, but they figured they should get me something too and my bike would be slower, which it was until some older neighbors bought it from me and bypassed the governor. That thing was FAST then. 🤪
As far as flying toys, I am way overdue for buying a drone and really like the 4K videos I see on TH-cam so I may have to finally get one. 🙂

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

@@HappySillyFace That's a good story with the dirt bike.had the 78 TT 500 thumper, "street legal" enduro kit... I still have about 8 cox products, Mini bike s, BB gun, slot cars all from the seventies lol never had The helicopter though. Maybe attach a fishing line to it and reel it in lol

[@steveeb00]

Does anyone remember the Cox Flying Saucer? It was a blue plastic doughnut with a 049 engine in the middle. My first flight went up, away, then crashed right into a tree trunk. It was destroyed. The props sliced through the inner ring on impact and the braces that held the motor broke. From that point on, I had an 049 motor without anything to use it in. But, as a little boy, it was just cool having it. Those were the days.

[@1silverball]

Cox Star Cruiser. I had one. A free flight UFO....no control means a lost toy much of the time! Ahh, memories of youth...

[@jamesthreats5800]

I had the cylon raider version and of course i took the tether off and away it went ,hundred feet up and then angled down straight into the hudson bay. Great fun.

[@xroppa5290]

Fliegt ja echt beschissen. But, still a nice reminder of the COX era :-)

[@philiphatfield5666]

I had the saucer too. I put glow-in-the-dark stickers on mine and flew it at night; in fact, I think I owned just about every product that Cox made.

[@andrewbolig6995]

Got one of these for Christmas one year. Dad and I were all too eager to "tune it in" outside on a really chilly Christmas day. His hands got fuel all over them and he lost his grip due to the bitter cold. We stood there and watched the copter go straight up, over our house. My sister and I started running after it when my mom called us back saying, "get your jackets on!"
We had been standing outside for who knows how long, but NOW we need jackets???!!!! Not thinking, but being good kids, we went in and grabbed our jackets. Went outside to the silent blue skies. No sound, no copter. It was lost. We lived in a pretty built-up area with houses all around. Not sure if it ever wound up in someone's yard, on a rooftop, or if someone saw it come down and picked it up. After that, we got into Cox cars. At least then we could pick up the pieces. Lol.

[@mickeymch876]

I received a cox plane for Christmas when I was about 11. I set it up, got it running and it almost flew a complete circle before I crashed it. That was the end of my cox plane. I never did control line again. I also spent about 20 grand on flying RC helicopters. Now I stick with drones, they fly themselves. Technology is saving me thousands!

[@timokuusela5794]

I used to have one when I was a kid. If the engine was set a bit rich, it would hover and go with the wind, only when the fuel started to run out, it climbed , and then autorotated back down. I still have the rotor system , it now lifts a balsa gunship lookalike. If the plug was left loose (by accident), the engine worked between idle and full power, so it landed, took off, hovered, etc, That was fun, but too risky to lose the plug. I used to have all kinds of COX products, Fokker D7, the dragster, Yukon Patrol floatplane, etc, my friend had the Sopwith Camel and the Action Van, another had the Jeep, one had the Stuka, here in Finland they were popular in the seventies. I bought new ones lately from the ebay to fly them with my childhood friend who had the Camel, but he passed away, now I have Fokker D7 again, 2 Camels I planned to fly with him, Piper Grasshopper, Fokker triplane, and several balsa U-control planes with COX engines. Just no-one to fly with anymore...

[@andrewmagro7703]

😓my condolences my fellow pilot yes unfortunately some of these beautiful toys bring back all the good memories of our childhood it is a shame not all of our lifetime friends are here to enjoy with us yes i lost a great friend to leukemia when he was only 25 very sad keep memories close to the heart and one day take two and launch one straight after the other and for a few seconds you can just imagine the two of you there flying together 💚

[@Ryan-re1rs]

I had the army version that dropped a parachute guy.. kids toys were way different back then.. I've been trying to think of the name of this for a while now, thanks for posting.

[@rolliehunt5173]

Had one back in 1978. I was not satisfied with it's low altitude flights, so I replaced the small gas tank with a larger airplane tank. My friends and I launched it one day, watched it disappear into the clouds, but could still hear it running for several minutes. Never did see it again. Undisputedly, I won highest altitude award in the neighborhood.

[@MA-iv7ol]

Haha, my friend had the the cox UFO and it did the same thing without any modifications. Probably flew to area 51, lol.

[@traviscozza7177]

I'll never forget my airwolf copter!

[@mickeymch876]

I wanted a helicopter back in the 90's but the hobby shop kind of steered my now ex-wife away from getting a radio controlled heli due to the cost and the likelihood that I would crash. She got me one of these. I still have it out in the garage in a bin, just as it came back in the early 90's. I don't even think I ever started it. As a joke my wife got me a little Syma helicopter back in 2012. That got me started, since then I spent over 20 grand on RC helicopters, building them, flying them, crashing them and rebuilding them. I did the whole flybarless and 3D thing but most of my helicopters are now sitting in the garage in new condition covered with plastic. I still even fly the helicopter simulator from time to time. Now I'm into quads. I'm guessing I've spent around 5 or 6 thousand total on them.
It all started with this guy and I still have it!

[@juanr1956]

My brother and I suppossed to have one back on the 70s.... I say suppossed due to our father was the one who realy enjoyed it...we just saw him flying it hahaha

[@mingology7767]

Nostalgia man!

[@deathstrike]

I have the Cox Comanche version of this helicopter and half the time it flies it sputters to about maybe 100 feet up and conks out and autorotates back down. Worked great, but since it's an "Estes Cox" product, it wasn't built nearly as well as the original shown in the video. The fuselage finally split in two. I found one on eBay with a siezed engine, but a good fuselage, and I put my working motor and gear back on. Retired it and now it hangs in my hobby room.
But this video gave me an idea, I wonder if a small electric motor can be added in the tail section to counteract some of the engine torque and maybe make it fly smoother? They make drone motors that weigh only a few grams and since my chopper has the .049 motor, might be able to balance it and counter at least some of the torque.

[@jonmyers8046]

Had one growing up. We could never get it to fly 😢. The engine ran ok, but the big props wouldn't spin up. Brand new out of the box.... always had that kind of luck my whole life 🫤

[@thewaltbrownellchannel9318]

thanks for the memories😁

[@morrisdennis]

I had one of those luved it!

[@scottobrien3484]

I had the cox sky jumper 🚁 once the fuel ran out and it started it’s decent the little parachutist 🪂 would bail out. I loved that thing!!!

[@okiedoak201]

I have owned almost every cox powered vehicle offered except for the helicopter....now I see I haven't missed much...thanks for the video

[@Apo8411]

You missed a lot actually ;)

[@michaelgamba369]

I had one of these brand new on the box as a kidron the mid 90s but my dad couldn't get it started so it got tossed in the trash I'm so glad I got to see this one fly

[@ericheyes5558]

What great toy

[@patrickgarski4540]

I had Cox Sky Copter as flew into higher then come back and landed as successful . I moved to different place then launched it but powerful wind gust hit Cox Sky Copter flying toward forests and never found it as lost forever .

[@jims6323]

Thats the .020 version, I've got the .049 one & the reason I still have it is because it's been in the rafters in my garage for the last 30 years!

[@rogerbivins9144]

Oh man! At 51, I'd nearly forgotten about owning a heli very similar to this about 78-9.
I cherished it so much that I would never even fly it for fear I might never see it again lol.
I guess that may have been part of the incentive to begin building / flying RC aircraft which I COULD have control over.
That was a really cool little engine tho, wish I had kept up with it.

[@mickeymch876]

Looks like that cox heli needs a better gyro. The tail is just a tad sloppy.

[@winnipegperfectcircleflyin7859]

The pilot must be dizzy flying that thing

[@edwardwright5377]

I had a 3 wheeled chopper with a pull rope start that's the only cox toy I had that didn't get totalled in the first hour.

[@chief8388]

Blade tips needs to be higher, like dihedral on a plane...
Just bend the metal roots a tad all the same angle.

[@phapnui]

As a kid, I made something similar with coathangers and cardboard at the end, 049 in the middle. Four vanes. When out of gas, it would flip over and windmill to the ground.

[@sjsherlock2053]

Always wanted one.

[@danielcarlson7931]

From what I researched, these go for BIG BUCKS on Evil Bay.

[@paulford2706]

Must be similar to all of the Cox flying models there was dozens of them, I had the PT19.

[@danielcarlson7931]

@@paulford2706 That's a FUN model to fly.

[@danielcarlson7931]

@@paulford2706 I had the Cessna 150 Aerobat

[@dandaniels851]

Kinda wanted to get a look at it 🤔 people, when you're making a video, point the camera at the thing you're making the video about 🤨🤷‍♂️

[@raulsanchez2951]

Como filmador, no tiene precio....

[@alejandrorey8914]

My Cox helicopter was a Bell Sky Ranger.
Uses an inversed giro propeller!

[@brentsrx7]

Mine went up to heaven on its first run, never to be seen again, as did a fair few I assume.

[@jumpingjacks5558]

It's good thing they are built tough.

[@arthurcabral9561]

This was one cool flyer in it's time!

[@ReflectedMiles]

My copter worked twice, I think, before self-destructing, and one of those times it didn't manage to sustain more than a few feet of altitude because the engine RPM was so unstable. It was the least cooperative .049 I ever had.

[@Pauls-World]

I have a brand new one still in the box.

[@darrengibson5650]

Used gas fuel tubing to replace the fuel tank, tank was no good (old). Darren

[@stevendegiorgio3143]

I had one of those but I don't remember it flying.I can see it doesn't fly all that good.I had problems with the plastic clear fuel tank melting from the fuel.

[@stevenstair1068]

I have one from the 60s and that's about all they do..

[@jamesberwick2210]

I built one from plans in an old magazine. The stupid thing never worked. I did get good at making rotor blades and balancing them, that was about as far as it went.

[@royalanania3306]

Lost about three of those in the woods,In Akron ,Ohio.

[@shockerthreeone]

Wanted a RC Helicopter for Christmas back in early 90’s. Parents didn’t have any money and I ended up with the Huey version of this. The cheap plastic fuel tank leaked like crazy. I think I got one flight out of the thing. It was kind of a sad Christmas for me. I didn’t want my parents to know how disappointed I was. Didn’t want to be ungrateful but that thing was the worst.

[@rlondon1958]

That would scar me for life. Sorry bro...

[@mickeymch876]

I prayed to God for a Schwinn sting ray back in the 60's. Santa got me a Murry, what a piece of junk. Besides it being a Murry my father put it together when he was drunk so the bike was stuck in 3rd gear. I never prayed again, now I'm an Atheist.

[@paulford2706]

Unguarded propeller free flight don't think it would be on sale these days.

[@Mike-01234]

I don't think free flight is even legal now FAA has come down on Rockets and kites too all of it is now restricted.

[@Romin.777]

Because of corperations want the airspace for commercial reasons.. Just look at the board of representatives.
Evil corps rule the earth.

[@awesomedriver2193]

is flown using cables? what is point of this if all flights end in a crash?

[@leeroyholloway4277]

I had one of those. That's exactly how it performed.... like hammered dog shit.

[@Deploracle]

I had one for about 5 minutes. It flew right up to the top of the school gym and decided to crash on the roof.

[@xroppa5290]

Fliegt ja echt beschissen. But, still a nice reminder of the COX era :-)

[@ezequielsanuy8895]

Y a recargar combustible

[@douglasbelly9204]

Este video era para llevar las vacas a pastar x q el elicoptero no se ve para nada.

[@IFIXCASTLES]

Lol

[@A3Kr0n]

Another crappy toy from Cox. Mine was the dune crapbuggy and my friend had the control line crap plane.

[@joshlitemann4187]

Boooooo

[@pat14162]

foutez cette vidéo à la poubelle !!!

[@mingology7767]

Nostalgia man!