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Old 08-29-2005 | 06:10 PM
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tony-howard
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Default RE: favorite engine from the day
My favorite two vintage engines are the early Enya and HP 60 engines.

Got 3 of each and still fly them regularly in sport planes. Neither is very powerful by today's standards of course. The HP's are the stronger of the two, but I still have a soft spot for the Enya's because it was my first 60 and my first true R/C engine. My first Enya (which still runs just like it did new) was - at $26.50 - a major investment back then that took a lot of convincing for my wife to agree I should buy it. The first 60's used an exhaust baffle and no muffler. I flew it in my glass-n-foam Kwik Fli III for a long time which was guided by a CitizenShip 4 channel proportional (the flight pack weighed 25 os - due parly to the aluminum cases wrapped around the servos and reciever!).

The first Enyas were prone to backfires in flight which almost always ejected the prop along with the nut, washer and prop driver. Naturally the parts didn't come off all together and I don't recall ever finding anything but the prop! Enya soon came out with a maintenance kit which had all the missing parts! It was a good idea to have more than of the kits with when you went flying - for one thing you could sell one or more to another Enya flier who suddenly needed one. Later when we started using mufflers the backfire problem disappeared completely.

My original Enya still starts by hand on the first flip.

The HP's were - in their day - very strong engines. And they were even stronger with the aftermarket AFM carb (which is shown on the HP mounted on my current Aeroworks Edge 540T).

Great fun reminiscing about the old planes, engines and radios.

Tony
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