Originally Posted by
Rudolph Hart
Mine is flown with a saito fa182 flat twin fourstroke and is nicely balanced fore and aft.All standard h9 kit fittings,nothing has fallen off yet.Mostly flown as an aerobatic plane and it looks very pretty doing that,will fly very slow with no bad habits.
Thank you - happy to hear it - although thinking the petrol single cylinder will never run as smoothly as a FA-182 twin.
I wasn't able to run the Zenoah yet - most likely due to incompetence and inexperience with gas burners - have a very sore stomach and shoulder from hand-propping. After some research here, these engines like to be wet when starting and I think that was part of my problem. Discovered upon de-fueling that the tank would not completely empty; suspecting clunk lodged or absent as I don't hear any movement in tank when handling airplane. Perhaps a blessing in disguise but shame on me for not heeding this sign earlier.