This model was bought from an honest seller on
eBay.
The Cox F2G-1 Corsair was one of the first control line models I owned as a kid back in Holly Hill
Harbor, Maryland. The full-size F2G used the basic F4U airframe and added a much more powerful engine
that nearly doubled its climb rate. It has a break-away wing that is held on with rubber bands, but
that was not enough to save it from my inexperience. As I recall, my mistaken method for attempting
to fly the airplane was to hold up elevator to keep it from hitting the ground, except I would keep
holding up elevator until the model eventually did a wingover into terra firma. It was not until I bought
a Cox PT-19 trainer and developed a slow-go, staged training method that I finally
learned to properly fly a control line airplane.
Sears, Montgomery Ward, Britts, Reads Drug, and other large department stores and drug stores used
to stock Cox control line models - especially around Christmastime. I anxiously awaited the arrival
of the Sears Christmas Wish Book every year to see which models would be offered that season. Here are
some pages from a 1969 Wish
Book.
 
 
 
Below are pages from the Cox Assembly Instructions that came with the F2U-1 Corsair.
 
Here are my other Cox control line models:
Posted April 8, 2015
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