The Engine Shop - 2010/06
I LIKE SMALLER model engines. The
airplanes they power are quicker to construct,
less costly, and easier to transport than giantscale
types. Probably for those reasons, model
power plants with .25 through .46 cu. in.
displacements have long been the most
popular varieties for RC flying.
The Engine Shop-2010/08
MY MENTION OF
Enya engines in a
recent column
brought a quick
reply from David
Pawlowski of
Midland, Michigan.
The Engine Shop - 2006/12
MUCH OF MY
readers’ mail asks
about engine
cleaning. Now I can
finally put that topic
to rest. Tests with
two new products
have shown that either can quickly get rid of the most stubborn muck,
grime, and baked-on “varnish” that model engines acquire, one of
which is the newly reformulated Demon-Clean (DC).
The Engine Shop - 2009/02
Model diesel engines' advantages
A BRIEF MENTION
of model diesel
engines in one of my
recent columns
prompted Ivo Lucchita
(Flagstaff, Arizona) to
e-mail me and ask
why this type of model
engine—his favorite—never became popular in the US. He also
noted that even in Europe, long a stronghold of model diesel usage,
its popularity has declined considerably.
The Engine Shop 2003/07
BRODAK’S NEW .40 engine is the first truly innovative
concept in Control Line (CL) Stunt power plants to come along
in decades. (I put that “.40” in quotation marks because the
engine’s actual displacement is .426 cubic inches.)
