Scale Twins for 2610 Combat

The MIG 5 or DIS 200.  Only two were built by the Russian Aviation industry during the war due to shortages of capacity.  This is my fall 2003 building project for competition in the 2004 season.  Click the photo for the complete construction article with many photos.

The pictures below were taken from links on the ACES web site.  In Europe, ACES rules allow for up to .21 cid in singles and .30 in twins.  There is a great advantage in horsepower to using twins in ACES rules.  Read about them below.

This is Lennart Johannsson, World Champion in both 2000 and 2001. Lennart uses ASP .15s in his twins.   ACES has a max rpm limit for engines according to prop size.  The pitch and diamerter is added together.  For instance a 8X4 is a "12".  A 12 can have a max rpm of 17,000.  Lennart uses 7X5s turning 16,000 rpm on 10% nitro and 15% oil.  The top photo is a Westland Whirlwind.  It weighs 44 ounces, this the plane that Johannsson used to win the World Air Scale Games this past summer.  The middle photo shows another view of the plane and trophies from WASG.  The lower photo is a Grumman F7F Tigercat that weighs 47 ounces.  Lennart's planes all use the NACA2412 airfoil and are built of foam.  He also uses the scale dihedral of the full size planes.

This is Milos Pozar's MVVS 2.5cc Tigercat.  It was posted in the ACES photogallery August 24th.  What an incredibly beautiful ship!  It is constructed of foam and glass and uses two servos for ailerons and one for both throttles.

The next picture shows Mattias Widen and his ME110C.  This plane is being kitted in Germany and you can go to the Modelltechnik web site by clicking here.  It will be available in November 2001 for an estimated $150 US plus shipping.