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Default RE: Twice the scale, now how about the motor?

Take a piston engine and double the size of everything, twice the bore and twice the stroke, and you end up with 8 times the displacement.

I once built a 2/3 scale version of a .40 size sport plane and used the cube rule to determine engine size. This resulted in me using a .15 glow engine. It worked out quite well.