G'day Oily hand people.

I bought a little Airsail Heron Gas Buggy of a friend a couple of days ago. It came with a free engine - a little Silver Swallow 1.5 with a cute pinkish anodised head. I fired it up yesterday. Gave it a prime through the port and a couple of drops down the venturi, a few flicks and it fired so I increased the compression a little and it was soon running on the prime. Filled the tank and away it went.

I know these are not exactly the height of the diesel makers craft but so far this little engine runs very well. I am still giving it short richish runs but it looks like it will be a useful little engine for the Gas Buggy.

This particular model was built by a long time modeler and has been built with more elevator area and a larger rudder than shown in the plan. This should help me to control it in flight. The other one I have I built to the plan and it is just about impossible to control with its very small control surfaces which are really only trims.