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Old 12-15-2010 | 04:57 AM
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Clay Walters
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Default RE: What Aircraft are you installing your DLE20


ORIGINAL: zoaartcc

Thanks to w8ye for posting this valuable information on the DLE20 and the basic of what which aircraft will best fit its design. I saw this in the DLE20 thread and appreciate you adding it here. It should be of invaluable help to all trying to decide what plane to look for.
Same for me!

I have a Hangar 9 Pulse 125 XT that I hope to install the DLE20 in. But I move slow so it may be awhile before I actually address it as I've had to move indoors away from my freezing cold garage where my work tables and good lighting are.

But I am thinking ahead and suspect that because of the way I reinstalled my control rods to address potential problem areas identified in another RCU thread that I my single location left for a throttle servo may render it difficult to route a throttle cable around the tank and to the throttle linkage.

Since this engine is clearly designed for R/C it surprises me that a reconfiguration of the carb wasn't done to position the arms to one side, the return spring disabled, and longer throttle arm installed. I have heard that a longer one may have been provided but I haven't dug thru the contents of the box to know if it was or not. Centering the carb and control arms dead center in the firewall just seems rediculous considering that most airframes plan on the fuel tank being there.

While the Pulse seems to be a nicely laid out plane with provision for nitro, gas, and electric installation I didn't expect to confront this and probably would have select a different ARF if I knew then what I think will happen now. ( A 120 4-stroke is on order just in case this gasser isn't a good mix)

If it hadn't been for winter arriving I'd have picked from some of my plans and just built something for this engine.

Still I'm excited by the prospect and hope to learn a bunch on the installation workarounds others have done with this thread.

Signed up too,

Clay