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Building Tips and technical articles. => 1/2 A building. => Topic started by: dennis lipsett on September 29, 2011, 08:12:52 PM
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Yes it's almost 1/2A but I'm curious .I still own this engine and I flew a bit with it in my youth. Did anyone else on this forum ever fly a Pogo 09. Most know of it as a model car engine but it also was capable of being used on a plane. Not a world beater but with that long shaft it made for an interesting team racer type that I built so far back when.
dennis
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Pictures? "Long nose" makes me think "P-39" -- I was just reading about that plane last night, with a standard engine installation it'd take a ton of weight in the tail to balance correctly.
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Off the wall?
Long nose?
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I cannot remember where I found this scan:
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Can anyone see a place for fuel tank in the plan?
This might work better with a skinny electric motor n~
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Not having a fuel tank saves the pillow block from being burnt up on the first flight.
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Yes it's almost 1/2A but I'm curious .I still own this engine and I flew a bit with it in my youth. Did anyone else on this forum ever fly a Pogo 09. Most know of it as a model car engine but it also was capable of being used on a plane. Not a world beater but with that long shaft it made for an interesting team racer type that I built so far back when.
dennis
I THINK it was also used in a plastic RTF of either the XFV-1 or XFY-1, whichever was designated POGO (I'm thinking XFY-1). I never had one, but remember drooling over one in my LHS in the late fifties. I believe it had a throttle and was supposed to take off vertically.
George