On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:34:46 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:01:20 -0600, Califbill

wrote:



I flew lots of Ucontrol as a kid. After I came back from school and

service, my brother and his kids had lived in the house I grew up in. Only

2 engines that were still there was an .049 diesel and a .049 outboard.

Still have them. Should put them on display in the office.



Are you talking about one of these?



http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Model%20Motor.jpg

Heh. A Cox .049 with the cylinder turned 90 degrees. I still have one on a trainer balsa plane that my son learned to fly C/L when he was a kid. It's fly-able if I just cleaned the motor up a bit. The bigger stuff is actually easier to fly than the little ones, once you got old enough to hang on to the bigger one's pull. A combat .40 or .60 engine plane on 60 foot stainless lines at full tilt can pull pretty good with the centrifugal force.