Gas Engines & Giant Planes

Our newly released third edition, Gas Engines and Giant Planes, contains answers to many of the commonly asked questions that Judy and I hear on the phone every day from modelers around the world who are making the transition to giant scale planes.

It makes no difference how proficient a pilot is if the aircraft is not setup correctly. Most large planes are not crashed due to pilot error - they are crashed due to faulty setup and often on the first flight. The equipment is often blamed but the reality is that a newcomer to giant scale does not know the questions to ask to learn how to safely setup a giant scale plane.

Talking to thousands of modelers every year for many years has allowed us the opportunity to observe the common setups that are conducive to crashes and setups that are successful.

We have been involved with giant planes since the early 1970's, and have learned from our own mistakes and the mistakes of others as to how to safely setup these planes and engines to avoid crashes, which are so often preventable and unnecessary.

Judy and I have put together numerous topics about gas engines and giant sized planes in an easy to read format and illustrated the topics with many photos and drawings.

The information in this book will help the reader make the transition into large size planes safer and easier.