On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Wondered how long it was going to take for the RC guys to come up with > > a turboprop engine. Back when I flew FAI pattern, state of the art > > was a YS 140 4 stroke motor, and jet engines were quite in their > > infancy. > > > > Nice piece of engineering. > > > > Mark > > I was impressed too, but what I was looking at is not the $75.00 .49 ci 2 > stroker of yore, circa 1950. That looked like serious 2014 money, well > north of $750 I'll bet. But it surprised me that the air intake was at > the rear. Seems like a good opportunity to use the jets left over thrust > was thrown away. > > And, since no one seems to have mentioned it yet, Merry Christmas > everybody! > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > Gene, I used to have all the high performance 2 stroke engines back when I was flying RC planes. My favorite was a Rossi .60 that I used on the old fashioned pattern birds, rear exhaust with a big honkin' tuned pipe that tunnelled under the bottom of the fuselage. My other favorites were the high end OS engines, both 2 stroke and 4 stroke. OS made (makes?) some very nice power plants. And a very Merry Christmas and a blessed and prosperous New Years to you, your family and all of us here on the LinuxCNC list. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
