ORIGINAL: geeter
with all the problems with these small engines from china. why not get an os and avoid the problem in the first place. they just came out with a 22 cc gas engine. they cost alittle more but run very good. any engine less than 22 cc is not worth it anyway IMHO. if you can't offord nitro for a .40.50 maybe you shouldn't be flying. i like small gas engines but i think they have a limit. the weight of another battery pack plus the cdi is just not feasable to me. anything besides an xcell ignition is pretty much junk anyway. don't waste you time and money on junk gas engines, buy something good. besides you risk your plane and electronics to boot, just to save a few bucks.............GEETER
OS doesn't make a small 9cc spark ignition gasoline engine. It could be several months or more for the new 22cc OS engine to show up in the USA too.
It depends on the importer Great Planes as to how soon they'll bring them in.
Magnum was supposed to come out with a .50 size gas engine, but they apparently cancelled it.
Fox Manufacturing has a .50 size gas engine too, but I don't know if they are shipping them out yet.
Besides there are places in this world where model engine glow fuel and even model engine diesel fuel are extremely difficult to impossible to get. I know of some places in the USA where you would have a heck of a time trying to get glow fuel too. But gasoline is right there and easy to get. In some of these places you could get glow fuel but they charge like two to three to four times the cost of the same glow fuel in a large metropolitan area.