Monday, April 18, 2016

Astounding Mechanical Mini-Engineering (video)

Various types of combustion engines are reproduced but in tiny scale.  Some of them even sound like hotrods.




Powering an RC model with these is fantasy unless it's a full-size drone.  The engines used by hobbyist RC models are tiny relative to these ones and the turbines the jets use are maybe a couple of inches long.  Think how cool it would sound if this would work for RC models as then that hugely-annoying buzz of existing RC aircraft combustion motors turns into the sound of racing cars.

There was one radial motor of the tiny variety and we assume engineers went with that design for aircraft engines because it would be easier to cool them.  It still would have to be one gigantic model to support it but there would be some huge wow in that.

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