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Old 04-15-2005 | 03:43 PM
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Default RE: Buzzard Bombshell Engine


ORIGINAL: swixtt

Hello ... i have a very old Buzzard Bombshell plane 72" and was wondering what type of glow engine people are using for this! (If any out there?)

thanks,

Depending on how your BB is constructed, reinforced, whatever it will fly well on some .25s (Especially with a smooth hand launch), no problem with a .29 -- .35, o/p with a .40 and I certainly would not go beyond a medium type .46. A 40-46 might need a close look at the wing interior bracing.

Flew a BB back in the '70s. It was an older ST. 40. Belonged to my friend and he let everyone fly it. In the past 7 years I have had 3 "Old Timers" of the 70 -75" span. The first two were well over-powered with an Enya .29 and the last one was with a ST. 29. The first two were monokote and beefed up for RC. The last one was silk and dope. All three suffered multiple fatalities before a final, simply because of many pilots (including newbies) getting into situations and over-stressing the wings. That is where the OTs fail. IIRC, the BB is a bit stouter than those I had.

It is so graceful to get one all trimmed to fly medium circles, set the TMTR down, and when it slowly drifts away, retrim to the other direction in a much larger circle and watch it slowly fly itself back - no / low wind days
When it's all trimmed up to do that, give it to a newbie and in 10 seconds he's upside down. Proves just how it got there.

Good Luck and have a ball.