On Fri, 02 May 2014 20:56:45 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

John B. fired this volley in
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That is not necessarally true when it comes to model airplanes. I once
saw a "speed job" a small controll line model designed to go fast,
that used a single bladed prop, with a conterweight with an engine
speed in excess of 10,000 rpm.

What kind of chugging hunk of a model airplane engine goes 10K? (except at
a high idle?) There are lots of them out there that consistently tach
29Krpm.

Lloyd

I was being conservative as I saw the plane in, probably the mid
1950's, and I really have no recollection of actual RPM as we just
tuned them by ear and flew them :-)

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John B.
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