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These companies make diesel airplane engines, but are they good for flying?

For most people, diesel engines equate to either pickup trucks or semis traversing freeways. However, what many of us do not know is that diesel engines can be used in aircraft, too. You would not ...
Los Angeles Times

Remembering motor inventor for model airplanes

history columnFrances Righter Tucker was just 3 or 4 years old, barely able to sit on a stool, when she began helping her father, Walter Righter, work on miniature airplane engines in his backyard ...
Hackaday

model aircraft

A year ago [Ramy RC] set out on a momentous challenge: to build a 1:21 scale Airbus A380-800 RC model with functional engines, landing gear and all other details. Recently he finished the project and ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

Take 5 with Mike Hanratty, Mike's Model Aircraft Supply

Mike Hanratty has flown model aircraft since he was a child. And when Hanratty, 76, retired from the Noel Corp. 23 years ago, he decided to take a chance and make his hobby another chapter in his ...