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Title: Would this be cheating at a Musciano meet?
Post by: Douglas Ames on August 19, 2011, 08:25:58 PM: This is just too cool. Clean, no starting problems, and powerful. Brushless motor inside a Babe Bee .049 -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtQjamVcdr0&feature=related
Title: Re: Would this be cheating at a Musciano meet?
Post by: john vlna on August 19, 2011, 09:36:43 PM: finally a way to get a good idle on a reed valve
Title: Re: Would this be cheating at a Musciano meet?
Post by: john e. holliday on August 20, 2011, 12:18:08 PM: How do you cool the motor? Also what do you do when they tell you to add fuel to the tank? LL~ LL~I like the idea tho. H^^
Title: Re: Would this be cheating at a Musciano meet?
Post by: Paul Smith on August 20, 2011, 12:42:06 PM: Absolutely illegal. No doubt about it.

Dealing with hardship of genuine historic 1/2A engines is the essence of the event.

Building a plane that a 13-year-old could assemble in a day sure isn't.

The posting was joke? Hopefully.

Maybe just a free-wheeling Babe Bee, a fan off camera, and some electric sound effects.
Title: Re: Would this be cheating at a Musciano meet?
Post by: Douglas Ames on August 20, 2011, 03:58:57 PM: The title of the post was a joke!

But the video is real, nice way to hide an electric motor I think. You'd still have to deal with an ESC and batt., which would be a dead give-away.
Title: Re: Would this be cheating at a Musciano meet?
Post by: Sam Feinstein on August 21, 2011, 11:26:06 AM: Hmmm, now I wonder if its possible to do it the other way around and disguise a Baby bee as an electric motor. n~
Title: Re: Would this be cheating at a Musciano meet?
Post by: john e. holliday on August 22, 2011, 08:08:37 AM: If they did, someone would still complain. VD~
Title: Re: Would this be cheating at a Musciano meet?
Post by: jim gilmore on August 23, 2011, 01:17:46 AM: what makes the sound ??
Title: Re: Would this be cheating at a Musciano meet?
Post by: PerttiMe on August 23, 2011, 02:16:10 AM: Must be just prop noise, up close: I don't think there's a piston in there. Unless the bearings are noisy.