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[White Ensign]

Hi folks, as I am doing a little flying as well I am very much interested in one of the kist of a Supwith Camel, Pup or 1.5 strutter. As I don`t want to go back to the ?*Ä&%§ß nitro engines a 2-stroke engine is the very first choice. Toni Clark has some nice one, the Zenoah Mark G-20. It`s a 2-stroke engine running with battery-powered ignition and runs on standard 2-stroke petrol. Has anyone experience with that engine and how to power one of the foresaid planes?
I know that there are some very nice looking models scale 1:4 and 1:5. How `bout them?

Happy modeling, Jörg

[David_S]

I have a Zenoah G-45 from Tony Clarke and it is a fine engine. A local friend has the G-38 with a Tony Clarke reduction drive in a 1/3 scale Pup; it flies extremely well. Another friend over here in Finland (Irish ex-pat this time) was selling a Mick Reeves 1/4 scale Pup kit. The MR kit is supposed to be the most accurate kit available for the Pup, up to World championship standard, as you would expect from a former world champion. I believe the kit is supplied in quite a small box, i could ask whether it is still for sale if you are interested.

[wugamumtafish]

Give some serious thought to electric power. Its viable nowadays even at that scale, and no oil soaked airframes. Rgds, Ed

[andyn]

The Thor engines Ripmax do are superb little engines, cheaper than a Zen too, I've seen one going an a large scale Giles and it flew very well with bags of power.

[Nordsee]

I wonder, the original, full size Pup was very loath to turn right, mainly due to the massive torque of its Rotary engine. It was said if you wanted to do a 90° degree right turn it was quicker to turn 270° left! This was very useful against the German Fokker triplanes, ( A direct copy of the Sopwith Triplane) as their engines turned the opposite direction so could not turn with the Pups in left hand circles, a trait that was exploited in those bloody battles, long ago.