The purpose behind a Hyde Mount is to absorb the vibrations of the engine and save the airframe. Pattern flyers originally went to soft or rubber style mounts many many years ago when the the rules required a change to quiet the models down.

The vibration resonating through the airframe was a major source of noise. When we started to "rubber" mount these early "soft engine mounts" were just rubber bumpers.

Merle Hyde designed and received a US Patent for the Hyde Rotational Isolation mount. The mount works to turn vibration into a rotational "bounce" of the engine. The idea is to keep the spinner and thrust line alignment yet absorb the vibration in a rotational way centered on the axis of the prop shaft.

The result is it works great!

Sound reduction was one component but then we are pattern flyers learned how well the mount protects the model from the wear associated with vibration. Servo pots wear less, clevis connections wear less, and the airframe lasts longer with a soft mount.

Basically the Hyde Soft mounts are the standard for the very best in vibration protection.

It is not required to fly a pattern plane and its needed. What it does do is protect your investment. The investment with a pattern plane can be various things. The money to buy the model and the servos, but the biggest investment is the time in setup and trimming of the model to fine tune it for performance. The wood, foam, and fiberglass are the easy parts to replace. The hard part is trying to get the time on the model to get it tuned in just perfect and keeping it at this top level of performance for as long as possible. This is why I use the Hyde Mounts in my top level competition models.

Troy Newman