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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Speed Talk => Topic started by: Dick Tyndall on August 21, 2017, 02:59:43 PM
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Went down to see Mike Langlois in North Carolina last Friday. I last saw Mike in 1978 when he, Elmer Huff, Bill Pardue and Tommy Hurlocker broke the Jet speed record at the Winston-Salem, NC Hobby Park with a speed of 213 MPH and change. He owns and runs a machine shop business and makes the Nelson .40 Pylon engines, now. A friend and I got the nickel tour of what he has going on there and we were very impressed! Always good to see old friends and that they are doing well.
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Tell him to make some stunt engines.
MM
If someone came up with a good design for an engine ( that would sell ) and a pocketful of cash he might consider it...........
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I need to give him a call I guess. I'd like to find a Nelson 40 rear intake, rear exhaust for a C speed or F40 ship
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Good choice Dane. The front intake is the fastest set up, less moving parts. Shannon got his set up to 193 mph. When Marty and I roughed out the modern day C speed, we thought 200 would be obtainable but so far 193 is the max to date. I did hear there is a C / FAI model being built for the much less flown world record.
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Sweet. Shannon sent me a video of the 193 run. Very very nice. One of these days I'll get my traveling budget and hobby budget straightened out and I'll order a bunch of stuff from Marty. Speaking of traveling, I'm headed to lubbock for labor day!
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I don't know anything about the Nelson PA engines. I know a run of Nelson .36 Combat engines were made a year or so ago. I heard that all of them were prepaid before they were produced. I never kept up with the Stunt stuff too much when I was flying controline. Mostly Combat, Racing and some Free Flight. Been racing R/C boats since 1985. I was just catching up with an old friend.
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I need to give him a call I guess. I'd like to find a Nelson 40 rear intake, rear exhaust for a C speed or F40 ship
I would give Henry a call because Mike just makes the pylon engines. Quickie 500 and QM 40. Henry is still making other stuff and just as a warning both Mike and Henry will try to talk you in to a front intake engine because they make more power. I was going to go with a rear intake engine also then after talking with them I changed my mind. Henry can also build you an engine just for c speed. I think he makes a pan as well.
David