By Popular Request

[Brett Buck]

   After the mention earlier, I have been inundated with emails and desperate phone calls begging to see the special Golden Fox Hurl Commemorative engine that I received at the 10th Anniversary Hurl. As alluded to, this was supplied as a special run to commemorate The Hurl, at the time of Larry's selection to head the Fort Smith, AR, Chamber of Commerce for his many contributions to the local economy.

 

  So, presented for your approval, Golden Fox 15 Slantplug #1 of 3:

   Another note of interest - as the result of the worldwide fame brought to Fort Smith, they became the sister city of Cisterna di Latina, Italy.  Look it up:

http://en.sistercity.info/sister-cities/Fort%20Smith%2C%20Arkansas.html

 This may seem remarkable by itself but it's no coincidence - the village of Cisterna produced the specially-designed 3,2-0,75 metric head screws for the ST46/60! This shows that the spirit of independence from conventional thinking, standards, or manufacturing tolerances that has characterized Fox and Supertigre is shared throughout the world! Inspiring!

     The international community of modelers and Hurl enthusiasts is indeed a close one.

    Brett

[Perry Rose]

Shouldn't the plug be slanted or is it just a name.

[BYU]

Its my understanding that the slant plug ones are used exclusively for Hurling.
The one shown is the 1st place Trophy.

[Brett Buck]

Shouldn't the plug be slanted or is it just a name.

    This is Fox we are talking about.

     Brett

[Dan Berry]

Shouldn't the plug be slanted or is it just a name.

Really now, why assume the plug was drilled straight?

[Mike Scholtes]

Its not just the 15s. I have 3 of the Fox FAI 049 free flight motors (totally different from the Fox 049, equivalent performance to TeeDee 049). All three have the threads for the screw-in cylinder (like TeeDee) bored crooked to the crankcase, though apparently in line with the axis of the crank. Gives them a jaunty "Slant Cylinder" look from the front. The folks who assembled them from Fox parts picked the best ones, and say they are all like that. Runs like gangbusters, though.

[Scott Richlen]

But why is it Silver?  I thought it was supposed to be Gold?

Does it hot-start any better than the one my brother had in high school?

[Ted Fancher]

You can tell it was very powerful.  The mounts are drilled for 6-32 bolts.  Amazing.

Ted

[Steve Helmick]

When I was a pup, I had two "steel fin" Fox .15's, and that looks like one, sprayed with gold paint, and not very good gold paint. Anyway, it doesn't look like a monoblock/slant plug (with cast cylinder fins) Fox .15 to me. I'm thinkin' that Larry fella is trying to pull a fast one...as one would expect from the Buttafucco Stunt Team. Shysters, one and all.  Steve

[Scott Richlen]

Sorry, but it just doesn't look very "gold" to me.  More like an aluminum cookie sheet with baked on PAM (or castor oil).  However, I must say it probably took considerable skill to get it (whatever "it" is) on in such a sparse, but even, way.

[Brett Buck]

Sorry, but it just doesn't look very "gold" to me.  More like an aluminum cookie sheet with baked on PAM (or castor oil).  However, I must say it probably took considerable skill to get it (whatever "it" is) on in such a sparse, but even, way.

  Well, it's certainly not gold paint that Larry sprayed in his garage from the first spray can he found, if that's what you were thinking.

    Brett

[BYU]

  Well, it's certainly not gold paint that Larry sprayed in his garage from the first spray can he found, if that's what you were thinking.

    Brett

It wasn't the first can. . .

That one, was empty. .

[Ted Fancher]

Hey, Guys.  This is Larry "Fernandez" we're talking about. 

IIRC I was even in J&M Hobbies when he was buying the roll of "Fox Semi-Gold" monokote by which he attempted to deceive his followers, (as evidenced by the seams/edges visible only when the engine is dismounted from the faux wood, plastic plaque to which it is semi-permanently attached with period appropriate, re-chewed, baseball card chewing gum).

Larry Fernandez, a modeler's modeler!

Ted Fancher

p.s.  A little known fact: the engines Fleer gum stuck to the plaques are truly only facades overlaying an electric drive.  (a dual triple AAA battery box is well hidden by camouflage monokote on the back of the plaque.  So well done that most awardees are unaware of the subterfuge.)