Giant Baby Bee

daviddiag wrote: A while back, I saw on this forum, a picture of a giant Baby Bee that some one had made. I have poked around today to find it and cannot.
Where can I find pictures and details about this engine? Is it Real?

Ivanhoe wrote:

Yes, these were posted here a while ago (by me!) The Babe Bee is real, and reputed to run, the giant TD photo is a fake, touch of the Photoshops!
The photos and discussion thread are on here somewhere, but I certainly can't find them at the moment.

Wilf

Surfer_kris wrote:You have reeds in full scale 2 stroke engines (motorbikes), it is just a matter of choosing the right material and dimensions.

coxaddicted wrote:Really cool. He wrote that the engine is diabolic loud without muffler .

He wrote also that everything is exactly the same as in a real cox (apart from the glow plug). Due to this, the engine is about 40% heavier as necsassary, so it was not planned to use it in a flyer. Sadly he sold it to a modeler and journalist to belgium.

The Builder lives in Bochum, just a stone throw away from me .

mitchg95 wrote:i just checked his site, it is 170mm high were as a normal bee is 59mm

so..... 170/59=2.88, so this be is 2.88 times the normal size
gosh it would be fun to hand start that, wonder what size prop it uses?

ahrma_581 wrote:

mitchg95 wrote:i just checked his site, it is 170mm high were as a normal bee is 59mm

so..... 170/59=2.88, so this be is 2.88 times the normal size
gosh it would be fun to hand start that, wonder what size prop it uses?

That is along one dimension, so displacement (volume) would be the cube of that: i.e., about 24 times using your measurement. So it would be about a 1.17 ci engine.

These days, per RCU recommendations, about your average 'beginner' r/c motor.....

lousyflyer wrote:I would love to hear it run.