ORIGINAL: Falcons Cuz
Hi guys
I am building my RC trainer out of scratch so my goal is to built a rc airplane that is under my budget I want to ask you that i have a gasoline engine from a small generator and its rated power is 2 hp and have 10000rpm and it weights about 4 kg so tell me that is it a suitable engine for a RC airplane which length about 6 feets and have a wing span of 1500 sq inch if any one of you have experience of that type of buliding so please relpy me any suggestion should be highly appriciated
waiting for your reply
falcon
Falcons Cuz,
I think if I was in Pakistan like you, I might consider a slope glider.
You need a location where there's a slope and some wind. The wind increases in velocity as it approaches the slope, and will carry the plane to altitude. You use the wind to gain altitude, then trade altitude for velocity, and fly back and forth. No engine necessary.
You can order the plane or kit & material from wherever you get your radio equipment. It's a good suggestion for a beginner. Another good suggestion would be for you to try a hotliner, a glider with an electric motor spinning a folding propeller, used to get the glider to altitude.
Either would be better than trying to use that 3.6 Kg engine.
Good luck,
Dave Olson