[NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year

[Tony]

Yea, I got that engine from you later, I think....  They really didn't like
nitro..  Steve Helms and I used special fuel from Morgan that had 2.5%
nitro.  Worked great.

Later on Steve began to work with YS when they were developing their first
engine.  He went through a bunch of designs before they came out with the YS
.60 short stroke.  That engine became legend in the pattern world.  Steve
flew it with a Kato variable Pitch prop for several years.  That's why the
older radios like the Futaba 8SGA has the variable pitch prop circuitry.
The later Futaba 9VAP's also had it.  

After Southern R/C Products closed, I went to a copy of an MK Arrow from
Fun-Key Airplane Company.  It was a ARC model.  It was inexpensive (about
$150.00)  Fiberglass fuse and sheeted wings and stabs and rudder.  Just
assemble, paint/cover and fly.  I took 2nd at the NATS in Masters with that
airplane as well.  It used the new at that time YS .60 short stroke.  I went
through 3 seasons of flying without loosing a single round at a local
contest (I attended about 15 each year) with that airplane/engine combo.
What a great model...  But I was also going through about 60 gallons of fuel
in about 6 months.....  maybe that is why I did so well.

Wish I had that much time to put into practice now!

Tony Stillman, President
Radio South, Inc.
139 Altama Connector, Box 322
Brunswick, GA  31525
1-800-962-7802
www.radiosouthrc.com

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Ron Van Putte
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:40 PM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year

I've been here cringing, waiting for John Fuqua to comment on my  
experience with the OPS Super 60.  So, I decided to write about it  
before he does.  Worst $#@! engine I ever had.  I couldn't get it to  
come up from idle.  Ended up putting a Super Tigre carburetor on it.   
Even so, it would quit going up from idle when the airplane was  
inverted.  It quit so many times on the low, inverted part of the  
Square Horizontal 8 that I developed a routine for it.  I'd 1/4 roll  
the airplane to knife edge and pull full up to get back to the  
runway.  That worked all the time until we were at a contest in Baton  
Rouge.  The engine quit as usual and, for some reason, instead of  
doing the 1/4 roll, I just pulled full up - straight into the  
ground!  There, now Fuqua can't bring it up.

Ron VP

On Jan 8, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Stuart Chale wrote:

> I had a couple of OPS super 60's and I think it had the same  
> throttle.  There was a small bellcrank attached to the carb to  
> transfer the fore and aft servo movement to side to side.  I still  
> have a few of the spinners for the motor.  The spinner back plate  
> replaced the drive washer on the engine.
> Stuart
>
> Martin X. Moleski, SJ wrote:
>> Mike Hester wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah I would LOVE to find a NIB OPS!!!! Those were some pretty
>>> under-rated engines.
>>
>> I have a NIB OPS .67 ducted fan engine on sale
>> for $105 (what I paid for it).
>>
>> Matching tuned pipe for $40.
>>
>> Plus shipping.
>>
>> It's not the OPS you're looking for, of course.
>>
>> I can put up pix and scan the instructions if
>> anyone is interested in this.
>>
>> It has the wierdest throttle I've ever seen.
>> It runs in and out rather than round and
>> round, if you know what I mean.  (I'm not
>> sure I even know what I mean.)
>>
>> Gold anodized head.
>>
>> The box calls it a 67 Super RCA.
>>
>> Rear induction, rear exhaust.
>>
>> Stock header.
>>
>> Looks like it has the number of the beast
>> on the backplate: 666?
>>
>> Parts list calls it an OPS 65 Speed.
>> Dated January 1981.
>>
>> AH.  A July, 1984, insert says:
>> "OPS 67 Super.  All 67 new parts
>> fit also 65 engines and vice versa."
>>
>> They want you to use 45% to 55% nitro fuel (!).
>>
>> Imported by Shamrock Competition Imports, Inc.
>> New Orleans.
>>
>> I bought this by accident in one of my earliest
>> forays into the internet.
>>
>>             Marty
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