ORIGINAL: samolot
Wow, thanks for all the replies so soon! I guess its not a win win situation for gas. THere is weight to deal with, and pure power. The exhaust residue is what gets me agrivated, but since im still flying my basic trainer for fun these days, its not a bad situation. Im sure in the future i might try gas because i know the companies will make it their top priority to keep making the gas engines smaller and smaller, and more powerfull. We'll see what happens.
THanks!
Samolot
PS: Also, what extra equipment is needed to maintain a gas engine?
This is the problem with going to gas. There are engines out there like the G-20, RCS 140 and 180 and others designed to go into medium to large glow planes but it's a very fine line. I once did a Carl Goldberg Sukhoi that had the lightened G-26 in it. Loads of people told me the wing loading would be too high and I would crash it.
Well in one respect they were correct, the plane went to 12.5 pounds with 946 sq in. of wing area and had to be landed pretty fast and the stall break was pretty violent. So me being the type to try things out, I went to putting the plane on a diet. I replaced the wing tube, main gear, prop, spinner, battery setup and a few other minor changes. All in all I spent another 200 bucks to lose 1.5 pounds. The plane flew tons better but instead of costing me about 600 bucks it now was over 1000 bucks including the engine and this was all because I wanted to go to gas.
I have since removed the engine and stuffed it into a Stearman. The cool thing is I now have the new OS120AX in it with all of the lightened work I did, it now weighs less than what the manual says it should and is a beauty to fly.
So with all that being said, I know of only two companies right now that are actually making planes to handle big glow or small gas engines and those are Wildhare and Great Planes.
Great Planes has the Performance Series which includes a great flying Ultimate, a Cap232 and a Yak. All three are built around either the OS160FX or the Fuji 43cc gas. In my Ultimate I use a Brison 3.2 (52cc) because while the Fuji flew it well, the Ultimate ended up at 16.5 pounds so the Fuji did not have what I wanted. I then bought the Cap232 and stuffed the Fuji in it and it's at 14lbs since I removed the wheel pants and with the PT models CF prop it will pull this plane into the vertical and it is truly unlimited and it just keeps going and going and going. I do not own the Yak but a few people have done it with both the OS and Fuji and they also loved it.
http://www.greatplanes.com/performan...rformance.html
Now, I just recieved my new Wildhare "Baby Edge" and this thing is a work of art. I'm going to stuff a Brison 2.4 in it. I told myself I wanted a smaller plane to toss around and was going to keep it glow, but this thing just screams for a small gasser.
http://www.wildharerc.com/Products/Edge120/edge.html