{"id":3905,"date":"2018-04-20T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2018-04-19T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T18:34:18","slug":"ad-cox-flight-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2018\/04\/20\/ad-cox-flight-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad, Cox Flight Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No modeler should head out to the flying field for a day of fun without having all the needed supplies.\u00a0 Cox made it easy for beginners in the late 1970s, advertising their Flight Kit &#8211; item #880.\u00a0 According to the catalog, it contained, &#8220;everything needed to get a model plane started right.\u00a0 Contains \u00bd pint Flight Power Fuel, filler hose and strainer cap, 1\u00bd volt starting battery, glow head clip with wires, and a set of multipurpose .049 engine wrenches\u201d and it could be yours for $5.65.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3906\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3906\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/78-9towerhobbiescatalog-pg214.jpg\" alt=\"This page in the 1978-79 Tower Hobbies catalog has 3 ads on it - the middle one is for Cox Fight Kits - they have a picture of the outside box and then small print descriptive text.\" width=\"768\" height=\"994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/78-9towerhobbiescatalog-pg214.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/78-9towerhobbiescatalog-pg214-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ad, Flight Kit, 1978-79 Tower R\/C Hobbies Catalog. National Model Aviation Museum Archives Collection, Manufacturers &amp; Companies Collection #0043. &#8211; Click the image to see the ad larger!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cox recommended the Flight kit with all of their model airplanes, but especially for the <a href=\"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2018\/04\/20\/ad-cox-cessna-centurion\">beginner&#8217;s friendly Centurion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nFor more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission fees visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modelaircraft.org\/museum\">www.modelaircraft.org\/museum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No modeler should head out to the flying field for a day of fun without having all the needed supplies.\u00a0 Cox made it easy for beginners in the late 1970s, advertising their Flight Kit &#8211; item #880.\u00a0 According to the catalog, it contained, &#8220;everything needed to get a model plane [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,155],"tags":[259,157],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museum","category-old-advertisements","tag-cox-centurion","tag-old-ad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}