Comments on: Model-Airplane Motor Drives Scooter (Apr, 1940) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/16/model-airplane-motor-drives-scooter/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: the letterbox did it « gimcrack hospital (PG) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/16/model-airplane-motor-drives-scooter/comment-page-1/#comment-1087987 the letterbox did it « gimcrack hospital (PG) Wed, 04 May 2011 21:57:10 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/16/model-airplane-motor-drives-scooter/#comment-1087987 [...] image found here [...] [...] image found here [...]

]]> By: NikFromNYC http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/16/model-airplane-motor-drives-scooter/comment-page-1/#comment-1017018 NikFromNYC Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:55:05 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/16/model-airplane-motor-drives-scooter/#comment-1017018 Don't laugh. The model aircraft industry has not only miniaturized and computerized (including microchip gyroscopes), but their electric motors are now the highest tech motors available anywhere, using "super" magnets and computer drivers that make them into fist-sized (or pinky-sized) true "3-phase" brushless motors! This used to require mechanical 3-phase inverters (a motor/generator combination that weighed 100 pounds). Yet due to their economic boom, they also offer 2 and 4 cycle gas engines that run on kerosine (white gas) instead of gasoline, and go on up in power to where you'd need a motorcycle license instead of just a driver's license to operate one as a motorized bike (50cc is the limit, which gives a scooter about 40 MPH). They even have rotary Wankle engines, and true WWI type of radial five or six cylinder (low vibration) engines. Examples: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXAEA4&P=0 http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0006p?&T=1&I=FJIG0234 http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXPVE3&P=7 http://towerhobby.com/products/os_engines/osmg1721.html http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXBY71&P=7 http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXPRL5&P=ML Don’t laugh. The model aircraft industry has not only miniaturized and computerized (including microchip gyroscopes), but their electric motors are now the highest tech motors available anywhere, using “super” magnets and computer drivers that make them into fist-sized (or pinky-sized) true “3-phase” brushless motors! This used to require mechanical 3-phase inverters (a motor/generator combination that weighed 100 pounds).

Yet due to their economic boom, they also offer 2 and 4 cycle gas engines that run on kerosine (white gas) instead of gasoline, and go on up in power to where you’d need a motorcycle license instead of just a driver’s license to operate one as a motorized bike (50cc is the limit, which gives a scooter about 40 MPH). They even have rotary Wankle engines, and true WWI type of radial five or six cylinder (low vibration) engines.

Examples:

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/c.....4&P=0

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/c.....I=FJIG0234

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/c.....3&P=7

http://towerhobby.com/products.....g1721.html

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/c.....1&P=7

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/c.....&P=ML

]]> By: MAKE: Blog http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/16/model-airplane-motor-drives-scooter/comment-page-1/#comment-21542 MAKE: Blog Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:32:14 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/16/model-airplane-motor-drives-scooter/#comment-21542 <strong>Model-Airplane motor drives scooter...</strong> 230 miles on a gallon of gas, 15 mph - wait, what? - Link....... Model-Airplane motor drives scooter…

230 miles on a gallon of gas, 15 mph – wait, what? – Link…….

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