V-12s: when size doesn't matter

[jaybird]

http://www.wimp.com/tiniestengine/

Too cool. How awesome would it be to mount this in a large scale RC Mustang?

[The Inspector]

Yeah, neat and one heck of an engineering and technical in scale accomplishment, but it's powered by compressed air, no igntion, no plugs, no plug wires. YOUTUBE (for those in the South, that would be Y'allTube) is full of smaller scale engines that do run from TBC (teeny block Chevies) to flathead Fords, but no water cooling passages so limited run time unless you run straight alcohol, in which case, the engine never warms up, that' why TA/FC and TA/D crew chiefs spray the injector with PAM @ the pre stage point to stop injector plate ice ups.

[cooper9411]

Yeah!

[DoraNineFan]

It's been a while since I looked at this project, but there seems to be more castings available now. I'm wondering when one will show up in an R/C Mustang.

Buyer does final assembly:
http://www.quarterscalemerlin.com/

[maxum96]

Around 2000, I was at the Gillespie air show in El Cajon, CA. There was a guy there casting approximately 1/4 scale Merlins. He had one that he'd run without a supercharger. The display said he was working on a supercharger. I don't know what happened to that project.

[tankbarrell]

This is much more impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xe1LL1I ... er&list=UL

[B 25 C]

No in the South it would be YouTube. Were are not all rednecks.

Yeah, neat and one heck of an engineering and technical in scale accomplishment, but it's powered by compressed air, no igntion, no plugs, no plug wires. YOUTUBE (for those in the South, that would be Y'allTube) is full of smaller scale engines that do run from TBC (teeny block Chevies) to flathead Fords, but no water cooling passages so limited run time unless you run straight alcohol, in which case, the engine never warms up, that' why TA/FC and TA/D crew chiefs spray the injector with PAM @ the pre stage point to stop injector plate ice ups.

[b29flteng]

Years ago I went to an Aircraft Engine Historical Society convention and some fellow from England brought the block of a 1/4 scale Napier Saber engine he was building. He ran a machine shop and was doing it in his spare time. I never heard any more about it. THAT would be an interesting video!

[DoraNineFan]

Years ago I went to an Aircraft Engine Historical Society convention and some fellow from England brought the block of a 1/4 scale Napier Saber engine he was building. He ran a machine shop and was doing it in his spare time. I never heard any more about it. THAT would be an interesting video!

I believe that's the same fellow who is running the 1/5 Merlin in the video above. The AEHS website had pictures of his Sabre project, but I have never seen any information or video that it was finished and/or ran.