Originally Posted by
DaveyMo
Ah, Taildragger but I'm going to bite on your teaser of the GHQ as an offbeat engine. I've no idea what it is, so I await enlightenment at your leisure!
Forgive me for cheating on the pics, but this GHQ looks exactly like mine.
Note the clever location of the needle valve, puts your fingers in the hot exhaust!
It's a .52 ignition engine from around 37 to 1940something.
I've had two of them, my current one turns a 12/6 around 9k on gas.
My first one (back in the '70s) had a piston that was stamped out of sheet metal with the wrist pin holes punched thru it.
It came with a huge reverse pitch aluminum prop, around 16" I think.
I had it on the nose of a Dumas Smoothie control liner.
The engine turned about 6k and just barely taxied the ship on pavement.
Thanks to the JW Ureely, I was able to reel in the lines short enough to whip it into the air.
(ah! the good old days)
(may they never return!!!)
Nick
