Discover The 2-stroke Model Airplane Engine
Model airplane engines come in many shapes and sizes from many manufacturers. By far the most common for the moment is the 2-stroke glow engine though the modern electric motor is making rapid inroads as it gains in popularity. The 2-stroke model airplane engine is an internal combustion engine burning glow or nitro fuel consisting mostly of alcohol with nitromethane to help combustion and castor oil for lubrication of the metal parts. There are also 4-stroke glow engines that work on the 4-stroke principle. While these two types of model airplane engine produce the same result, and use the same fuel, they accomplish this goal in very different ways and have different characteristics. For the moment we re just going to consider the 2-stroke engine. RC model airplane engines working on a two stroke principle means that there is fuel ignition on every second stroke of the piston in the...