The Engine Shop - 2009/10
WITH THIS COLUMN, I’m beginning
my 13th year writing “The Engine Shop.”
In the past dozen years, I’ve tested and
reported on more than 100 new model
airplane engines and wrote about more than
twice that number of older types
The Engine Shop - 2004/03
I HAVE GOOD news for fans of highpowered
Radio Control (RC) engines: Rossis
are back! These superb Italian-made power
plants were off the market for a while, but
they’ve been available again since last
September, in a new Matrix model.
The Engine Shop - 2006/02
Luckily Eric Clutton (“Doctor Diesel” and PAW’s US
representative) was at the field too. He and I examined my PAW .06
thoroughly. We changed needles, looked for compression leaks, and
checked for sticky bearings. Everything seemed normal. Then Eric
removed the air intake tube (this is a nonthrottled engine) and solved
the mystery.
Secrets of Soldering - 2009/09
THIS ARTICLE WILL cover soft
soldering. That’s done with solders that
melt at relatively low temperatures—lower
than 500 degrees Fahrenheit
The Engine Shop - 2009/08
O.S.’S LATEST “Alpha”-series four-stroke
engine—the 72FS-a, available from Great
Planes—has all the advanced features of the
earlier 56FS-a. Those include a compact
die-cast muffler, shortened pushrod tubes,
an advanced carburetor assembly, and the
absence of a crankcase breather tube.
