Sonny
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The Babe Bee reed valve .049 and the exotic Tee Dee .010 with the cool intake venturi port facing forward... it all comes back. They made a Tee Dee .049 too, but it was expensive and nobody I knew had one. I made a 2 x 4 block test stand to run the Babe Bee on, and flew it on a number of control line planes. Great times.
I didn't know the Cox company was gone. I guess electric RC spelled the end for them. Sad.
The fuel was nitromethane, methanol and castor oil. A smell for the ages when it burned (and the blow by coated your hand and model), with a very high energy content indeed. Those things scream. The .049 pulled amazingly hard with a good propeller.
I introduced my son to .049 control line flying in the '90s but it didn't absorb him like it did me back around 1960. I guess the world had changed... he always looked kinda sideways at it like it was some old school thing of dad's which made it uncool.
I wonder what would happen if you doped a full tank of gas on the Savage with about an ounce of Cox nitro fuel. Ahem.
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