THE GOOFY THING ACTUALLY RUNS !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy Cats !!!

After a considerable stretch of fiddling, all the while resisting the urge to load this thing into my sling shot and launch it toward yonder pond, I got this Testor's "Fly 'Em" (also know as their "Pipe Bomb Engine") to crank up and pretty well stabilize into a good run!



Since I didn't have a clue as to how it was held together, I resisted the urge to disassemble it, and decided to leave whatever goop was was in there alone, and let the engine deal with cleaning it'self.

I got a few good bursts out of it, then just cranked the needle valve WAY open to see if it would flood it'self...which it finally did. Closed the NV, burned out the flood, then slowly backed it out as I primed-burst-primed-burst-primed 'til it caught and ran.

I was using a Cox 5-3 "Safety Prop" and this little piece of junk flat took off!



I did have a tough time imagining a kid getting in any real flight time with the tiny "Tank" on the back of the engine. I was getting less than a minute runs with it so, in the good Redneck tradition, I just rigged a hose to it!

The silicone line of my regular tank would just fit in the big square hole (?) on top of the tank, so I filled the tank, drew some fuel down to the end of the fuel line, pinched it with my clamps, then released the clamps when the "Pipe Bomb" started. Ran it for about 20 minutes!

I may have to trust an airplane to this thing!

Strange Engine Kim