RE: OS 46 AX Question
Justin,
Why don't you just run your own family car on nitro!?
It cools your engine, so you don't need the radiator, the coolant, the water-pump...
Power will be up too...
The 'fuel' will cost you $50-100 per mile??? So, its a hobby... Who cares?... No?
Let me say this as explicitly as possible: Glow engines run on methanol and are designed to do just that. ALL OF THEM SHOULD BE!
Nitromethane is just a fuel additive; used in small percentages to improve a glow engine's handling qualities and marginally; its power.
Nitro is not the fuel and despite the fact that some less knowledgeable people call them 'nitro engines'; they are not.
Methanol is expensive enough (at 8-10 times the per-flight cost of gasoline/petrol). Nitro can get this figure up to 100-200 times the cost of gas...
Do you want to change RCU membership to the; err...~3 who can finance running all nitro, all the time?
The AMA should limit glow-fuel to 5% nitro and all sanctioned competition events to FAI fuel; just as it was in earlier years.
Naohito Yamada; are you listening!? No nitro!
Can you redesign all your engines to use FAI fuel?
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Chris,
Your engine's capabilities seems far and beyond those of other OS.46AX engines; more than mere ambient conditions can explain.
Please see [link=http://www.jettengineering.com/accy/jettstream.html]Dub Jett's OS.46 numbers[/link] at the bottom of the page.
These may be for an FX, but according to full reviews in R/C magazines, the AX numbers are very close.
Would you care to share the techniques you use, so we can all enjoy your advantage?