I went out to get in a few flights today to start off the New Year good. So here is a rare photo of myself with a RC airplane.
This is a Tiger 60 airplane with a Fox 60 Blue Head dual plug engine made circa 1966. It was pretty chilly outside today, so I had some trouble getting the engine to start up when cold. But once I got it running and warmed up, everything went smoothly. I needed to go a few clicks out on the needle valve to compensate for the denser air as well. If you missed my earlier posts about the engine here in this thread, I adapted a Davis DieselDevelopment .60 to .90 size SoundMaster muffler to work on the engine. Basically I only opened up the exhaust inlet in the muffler a little bit and of course I needed to remove the exhaust baffle on the engine too. I made a couple of small aluminum plugs for the holes left in the engine where the exhaust baffle went. The muffler clamp holds the plugs in place.
The plane is a lot less messy, now that I got the muffler to stay on and not come loose like before.