Category: Engines
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NGH GF38
The acquisition of a NGH 38cc four stroke started after a friend gifted me an old part-built Sid King Privateer, […]
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RCM&E at 60
Company founder Gen Saito with one of his first model motors, a pre-war spark ignition unit. There will be few […]
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Go glow!
Even apparently simple things, like starting an engine, often assume a good bit of inter-related background knowledge. Of course, the […]
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Firefly 46 glow part 3
Last month we left the workshop having completed the cylinder head, barrel, liner, crankcase, bearing, and backplate of this feisty […]
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Firefly 46 glow part 2
Having been a modeller for well over 30 years (and an engineer for a lot longer than that) I’ve built […]
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Firefly 46 glow!
Until now, plans for DIY engines have tended to be of smaller diesels and maybe the odd 2 or 3cc […]
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A Brief History of R/C Model Engines
The first Saito FA-30 from 1979. Over the last 50 years the first noticeable factor is the modeller himself. No […]
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The Defiant One
A Cox control-line P-51. Cox were making live fuel powered RTFs generations before the current boom in ARTFs. Spring has […]
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Aurora Pulsejet
This article was first published in 2006. I take no responsibility for the initial idea to build a pulsejet powered […]
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Engine starting problems?
The Graupner Monsun pulled by a happy engine, a few simple steps should ensure you maximise your flying time.The great […]