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Model RR Aero Engine
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 8:57 am
by Luxobarge
360cc 24 cylinder. Yes, 24
cylinders, not valves!
This will appeal to any of us who love engineering...
And I suspect it will make our meagre skills feel completely insignificant!
http://modelenginenews.org/gallery/crof ... index.html
Warning - pornographic images within.
Re: Model RR Aero Engine
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:42 pm
by alfaSleep
WoodieWorth 
Ahh... 2 bee yung & stoopidest!
My earliest venture into scale PetrolHeadedness was finding a fragment of plastic 'control line' plane.. in a friends garden.. and talking him out of the engine attached.
It was a glowplug type with the glowplug bit a sort of 'screw in' nut, on the top. Took it home, stripped it down & cleaned all the bits with a rag..... YEP! I screwed the rag into the top of the 'head' [which was full of what looked like grease...] and, of course, ripped out the glow wire.
my Sis Bfriend took pity & bought a replacement plug & tank & tin of fuel..... I never thought things could run
that fast 
[well.. I was 13!]
...ahh, well....
alfaSleep
Re: Model RR Aero Engine
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 8:52 am
by megadethmaniac
Have several model aero engines myself and do run some of the old uns every once in a while. They are all .3-1.5cc and sound great in their own way although 18-20,000 rpm on some does get a bit much after a while??? Conversely the sound of a Mills, a small long stroke diesel, with a large prop running nice and slow (maybe 5k?) is just ace.
Always preferred FF to CL myself, just watching a 2-3 second run climbing something vertically to a couple of hundred feet then the engine stopping gliding back down to earth was always more challenging. Although that said I do have a couple of plastic CLiners in the garage.