On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:38:19 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

On Jan 18, 6:08*am, "Jack." wrote:
On Jan 17, 9:21*pm, Tim wrote:



On Jan 17, 8:12*am, "Jack." wrote:

On Jan 16, 5:47*pm, Tim wrote:

A B29 model powered by 4 chainsaw engines... Complete with a mid-air
launch of an X1 rocket! * Here's where a lot of work pays off.

http://users.skynet.be/fa926657/files/B29.wmv

I've seen that thing fly twice, and watched him crash it once. *After
the X1 landed, he spun the B29 down from way up high, where he'd been
circling while the X1 did it's thing. *Then he flew down the runway
doing slow rolls, and during one of the rolls the outer third of one
of the wings folded up. *That was several years ago, and I understand
it's been crashed and rebuilt more than once since.

The original B29 was built by a guy who didn't get a chance to finish
it before he passed away. *The family gave it to Mac Hodges, and he
finished it and began flying it at RC events.

BTW... those aren't exactly "chainsaw" motors. *They are purpose-built
for RC aircraft use. *The current B29 has four DA-100 motors that are
twin cylinder, 100cc and cost $1000 each. *Yes, with all the motors,
radio gear, and airframe it's probably $6000 - 7000 in the air. *Just
the props can be over $100 each.

Here's the motor used: *http://www.desertaircraft.com/engine...hp?Page=DA-100

I passed on the info as I recieved it.

Thanks for the correction.

It was not meant in any mean-spirited way. *


Deffinately understood.

How would you know unless
you were into R/C? *Besides, many R/C planes acrually *do* use
converted chainsaw motors... they just aren't as light and powerful as
something like the DA motor, but are a whole lot cheaper! *And gas&oil
mix is far less expensive than the glow fuel that the traditional R/C
motors use.


no I haven't been into the model air plane stuff since I was a kid.
Some where around either my brothers place or here, we've got a box of
04 cox and wen-mac engines left over for destroyed string fliers.

we never could afford to get into RC

I've thought about it, as I used to do a lot of u-control modelling. But a
friend who is into it has had a rough time finding a place to fly around here.
He's got to drive a long ways to find a place that allows RC flying. It used to
be that almost all the military bases had an RC club. Don't know what happened
to them. Nowadays, if it doesn't have a touch screen and show videos, the kids
aren't much interested.

I've got some n-gauge railroad stuff. Trying to get the grandkids interested.
Nope.