ORIGINAL: P-51B
ORIGINAL: mini t
ORIGINAL: exeter_acres
I'll add one thing....
electric motors and props can do just as much bodily harm as glow...............
well, not really. With an electric you can instantly turn off the motor. With the glow engine, you would have to drop the RPM to idle and then kill the motor. Lot more complex than an electric. In that sense.
Actually, with a prop strike and glow engine, the engine typically quits. With an electric the blades just keep cutting until the battery runs out.
Or until one or more of the blades break off and the motor shakes itself out of the plane. Hell hath no fury like a 500 watt motor with major unbalance turning at 5K.
In the milliseconds it take for you to hit the kill switch it is all over. Also no glo motor ever started by itself while you are fiddling with the plane trying to adjust something. [:'(]