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Model Airplane Engines
Model Airplane Engines
I discovered Model Engines in 1951 and have owned hundreds of them over the years.
In the mid-90's I met an engine maker from Sweden, Arne Hende', who was making half-sized replicas of famous engines.
I bought several and was amazed at their jewel-like quality. Arne was delivering them in simple plain-looking white cardboard boxes did not do them justice so I toyed with the idea of a display box that would allow them to be seen but not exposed to dust or handling mishaps.
After designing a folding insert to fit a Baseball-card clear plastic box I sent a few off to Sweden. Roughly a week later Arne called me and asked if I could make a hundred of several engines and he would bring over bags of engines which we would box up for a big show I Toledo.
Here are a few engines that Arne made after asking me what to build for future projects.
https://pix.sfly.com/hWsOXG
In the mid-90's I met an engine maker from Sweden, Arne Hende', who was making half-sized replicas of famous engines.
I bought several and was amazed at their jewel-like quality. Arne was delivering them in simple plain-looking white cardboard boxes did not do them justice so I toyed with the idea of a display box that would allow them to be seen but not exposed to dust or handling mishaps.
After designing a folding insert to fit a Baseball-card clear plastic box I sent a few off to Sweden. Roughly a week later Arne called me and asked if I could make a hundred of several engines and he would bring over bags of engines which we would box up for a big show I Toledo.
Here are a few engines that Arne made after asking me what to build for future projects.
https://pix.sfly.com/hWsOXG
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Re: Model Airplane Engines
Those are really cool, but they bring back memories....
I flew a couple model planes when I was a kid, with the small 409 (?) engines on them. You had a glow plug and spun the engine with a spring on the prop. All my planes were flown with the hand held elevator control and the "pilot" spun around in a continuous circle until you got dizzy enough to land the dang thing. I had a large underwing model that was very slow due to the weight, and was easy to fly... but the main components of the plane were held together with large rubber bands. Hard landing? Crash? Fell apart... but no damage. Pocket full of rubber bands, and it was back together in a couple minutes.
I got cocky after six months or so, saved up my money and bought a piper cub half the size but it used the same engine. This pup glued together and was fast and agile. They recommended a certain length on the guide lines to keep you from spinning too fast, but it make the corrections lag. I didn't have a lot of luck with the dang thing and after a couple crashes, and some half successful repairs with superglue... it wasn't as fast or as agile. A couple more crashes and I salvaged the engine to use on a large wooden plane I built, heavy, slow, and STABLE.
I flew a couple model planes when I was a kid, with the small 409 (?) engines on them. You had a glow plug and spun the engine with a spring on the prop. All my planes were flown with the hand held elevator control and the "pilot" spun around in a continuous circle until you got dizzy enough to land the dang thing. I had a large underwing model that was very slow due to the weight, and was easy to fly... but the main components of the plane were held together with large rubber bands. Hard landing? Crash? Fell apart... but no damage. Pocket full of rubber bands, and it was back together in a couple minutes.
I got cocky after six months or so, saved up my money and bought a piper cub half the size but it used the same engine. This pup glued together and was fast and agile. They recommended a certain length on the guide lines to keep you from spinning too fast, but it make the corrections lag. I didn't have a lot of luck with the dang thing and after a couple crashes, and some half successful repairs with superglue... it wasn't as fast or as agile. A couple more crashes and I salvaged the engine to use on a large wooden plane I built, heavy, slow, and STABLE.
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Re: Model Airplane Engines
Hi Marine, I think you mean .049 which is a popular size for small engines. Cox and OK Cub were the biggest sellers.
Here are a few others that were popular.
https://pix.sfly.com/hQXRwO
https://pix.sfly.com/Bnbp_b
Here are a few others that were popular.
https://pix.sfly.com/hQXRwO
https://pix.sfly.com/Bnbp_b
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Re: Model Airplane Engines
That's the one...
I was nine or ten... so fifty years ago.
But I still loved it.
I was nine or ten... so fifty years ago.
But I still loved it.
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Re: Model Airplane Engines
I build and fly radio control planes. I have 5 that are ready to fly at almost any time. Two use a .61 glow fuel and 3 are gas powered. 2 26cc and 1 20cc.
Jim
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I used to build and fly R/C planes, I built a Sig Kadet senior with a .40 Saito, A Stinger aerobatic plane with a Super Tigre .90, lots of little .20/.25 size sport scales, a Steerman bipe with a Saito .80 and a few scratch built old timers.
It became too time consuming with the job I had at the time and I finally stopped about 20 years ago.
Great hobby if you have the time, space and money to do it.
As a kid I bought, flew and finally crashed every .049 U control Cox plane they ever sold, I think. I even had the prop driven tether car and a UFO thing. I love the smell of burning castor oil in the summer time.
It became too time consuming with the job I had at the time and I finally stopped about 20 years ago.
Great hobby if you have the time, space and money to do it.
As a kid I bought, flew and finally crashed every .049 U control Cox plane they ever sold, I think. I even had the prop driven tether car and a UFO thing. I love the smell of burning castor oil in the summer time.
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Re: Model Airplane Engines
here are a couple of what I fly.
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I remember the Ba-Bee .049 and the "trainer" airplane from the same company. About half the time it would start backwards, and being a kid we never noticed until we released it. The darn thing would fly backwards for about 7 or 8 minutes then run out of fuel.
I went to Navy "A" school in Memphis - we had a model shop and people would get their orders out and leave partly built models behind. We turned them into franken-planes and flew the heck out of them.
Then we got real planes, on big flat boats, and it was less fun (but that's a different story).
M
I went to Navy "A" school in Memphis - we had a model shop and people would get their orders out and leave partly built models behind. We turned them into franken-planes and flew the heck out of them.
Then we got real planes, on big flat boats, and it was less fun (but that's a different story).
M
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I love that P51! Looks awesome.
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