Maris Disler published in Australian Control Line Newletter, an article presenting in the detail the Alberto Parra's diesel engine 2,5cc. Contents: presentattion and manufacturing of this engine, performances and test in flight. Download article.
This equipment is certainly one of the main problems the beginners have to approach Racing classes (F2C and F2F). I saw that in 1980 when I began Team Racing, and we saw the same thing in 1992 when our club decided to launch Goodyear diesel Racing with some new teams and newcoming mechanics.
Building a control line tank, above all the first has never been a piece of cake. We could use some other objects convert them into fuel tanks, we should gain time and energy. But the mystry of the soldering and the interest for our young modelers convince us of the contrary. Our method is not a revolution, and has been improved during our building sessions 10 years ago.
During many World and European Championships all the wings of team racers were quite the same. For two reasons I think :
- the first was that a big proportion of them were built by two or three builders and sold to a lot of teams
- the second is that the technology is now well known and used by several teams with relative success.
We teach this technology in our modeling schools and we can tell that the quality of the wings in Good Year Racing and in Team Racing in the club, constitute a large part of the results the team members have in the different competitions they take part.
