Miniature Engines

Posted By: F4UDash4

Miniature Engines - 10/11/18 01:57 AM

Cool stuff.

Posted By: rwatson

Re: Miniature Engines - 10/11/18 10:33 AM

Good video F4 ..long ways from when We used to build our planes and fly them on a line and just keep turning around in a circle..Like mid to late 50's

Posted By: F4UDash4

Re: Miniature Engines - 10/11/18 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by rwatson

Good video F4 ..long ways from when We used to build our planes and fly them on a line and just keep turning around in a circle..Like mid to late 50's

Some of us did that into the early 70's

Posted By: KraziKanuK

Re: Miniature Engines - 10/11/18 11:44 AM

Am always fascinated by these miniature motors.

A guy builds a 1/4 scale V-8, https://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/1-4-scale-v8-first-project.13548/

Not a runner,

R/R Eagle 22, http://www.enginehistory.org/ModelEngines/Hares/Eagle22/eagle_22.shtml

R/R Merlin, a runner,

http://www.enginehistory.org/ModelEngines/Hares/MerlinXX/merlin_xx.shtml

Posted By: wheelsup_cavu

Re: Miniature Engines - 10/11/18 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by F4UDash4

Originally Posted by rwatson

Good video F4 ..long ways from when We used to build our planes and fly them on a line and just keep turning around in a circle..Like mid to late 50's

Some of us did that into the early 70's

1980's for me. Last time I flew a Cox hobbies line control plane was around 1989.

Wheels

Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: Miniature Engines - 10/11/18 06:01 PM

I was too poor as a kid to even have one of those line control planes so it was just those balsa wood throwable planes with the rubber-band powered propellers for me.

Posted By: Alicatt

Re: Miniature Engines - 10/11/18 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by F4UDash4

Originally Posted by rwatson

Good video F4 ..long ways from when We used to build our planes and fly them on a line and just keep turning around in a circle..Like mid to late 50's

Some of us did that into the early 70's

Then put radio control in them in the 80s