Working scale Merlin Engine – video

That’s nice – would make a great display model if nothing else!

Scale Merlin

http://dynamotive.netfirms.com/merlin/

Another one
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This is a 64cc 4 stoke in the front of my to be 1/5 Sea Fury

That’s not a Centaurus!

That V12 noise, even minaturised, still makes your hair on the back of your neck stand up 🙂

TNZ

This is a 64cc 4 stoke in the front of my to be 1/5 Sea Fury

Several years ago we constucted a third scale Gipsy Major engine, we did it by litteraly scaling down an engine we had in bits. The only compramise was the use of a different carburator. When it ran it sounded just like a Gipsy and it had lots of power, nearly pulled the bench over that we had it bolted to when we opened her up!!!
A german brought it with the intention of putting it into production, i belive it is just about ready to go on the market.
I will try and dig out some pics!

I saw the Merlin running at Old Warden almost twenty years ago. It was superb. It had the growl, it was just a little higher pitched. It also had the Merlin ‘Pop’ as it was throttled back.

The Merlin is out of this world, but look at the RR Eagle that Barry Hares built also.

http://www.enginehistory.org/eagle_22.htm

Fantastic engineer, a dieing breed these days.

I wonder if he is the same guy who built a running DB605 in 1/4 scale a few years back?

I think we can safely say that he must be divorced by now 😀

Hi, I found these on the web – I wish they were mine! You’re right about the sound, not very scale . . .more like my strimmer!

Lovely, what sort of power out put would that have ?

Looks good – reminded me of the Merlin at East Fortune that was run-up a few times. Oooooooh! 😀

Interesting!

Two things, I wish for (said Yoda):

1. Play the audio at half speed and see if it sounds like a Merlin.

2. Listen to it on idle, the last bit before engine-off sounded great.

Looks awesome! Did you build them of plans or something?