Captin,

Aw, don't mind me, I din't mean to offend. I just didn't want to get into it with reed valve lovers.

I loooved that hype on the Morris Hobbies site about this 58cc being more powerful than an 80cc. Riiiggghhhttt! Typical...

A flying buddy bought a Fuji BT-50 (actually a 46.5cc). I looked it over carefully. The carb is mounted on the side of the case and there are no reeds. It uses the piston skirt to open and close the port into the crankcase, under the carb. Interesting.

I had a Conley 1.20. It was serial # 27. I flew it in an Ace 4-120 bipe. Adequate power, started easily and it got a lot of comments at fly-ins. The down side was that the timing belt would jump a tooth now and again. Then I'd have to take it off the airplane and retime the cams. Bummer!

I got sick of that and sold the engine to a German collector. Got a Saito 1.5 on the bipe now.

Cheers,

CR