Solo powered aircraft!

[Dagger]

hey fellas , why dont you throw all them sawchains away and have some real fun with your saw's.....
here is a original Kolb Flyer...designed by Homer kolb in the late 70's. Powered by twin Solo saw powerheads, with an belt reduction unit . I ran into this fella from Texas in Florida in April, and it flew just great! He made laps with it everyday for a week at a large EAA fly-in.

 

[max2cam]

Just bought a SOLO 690 and this reassures me. If somebody is willing to fly a plance with SOLO engines, they must be pretty reliable.

 

[Onthehillintn]

Originally posted by max2cam
Just bought a SOLO 690 and this reassures me. If somebody is willing to fly a plance with SOLO engines, they must be pretty reliable

It would be more reassuring If someone was willing
to fly a plane with one SOLO engine.


Onthehillintn

 

[glens]

I'd just posted a link to a paraglider site in the "gotta fix this chainsaw" (or something like that) thread last night a little while prior to dagger's post to start this thread.  For a moment (until I saw the name) I'd thought perhaps someone else had followed my link and then browsed around a little and so started this thread.

Anyway, I was following some links and saw that a Solo 210cc engine is quite popular with the ultralight crowd (yes, a single engine).  It looks like they're claiming about 15 horsepower for it, at about 28 lbs.

<a href="http://persweb.direct.ca/highland/lazair/misc/solo.html">This</a> page has a very little story and contains a link to "Hirth f36" which I recommend following (the page it calls redirects you to a new site with links to Hirth, Rotax, and some other engines).&nbsp; It's interesting to note there that after breakin anyway, all the engines are spec'd to run at 50:1 just like the chainsaws of today...

<a href="http://www.theparamotorist.com/rebuilding_a_solo_210_c.htm">This</a> page has a short, photo'd, rebuild of the Solo 210.

<a href="http://www.flyproducts.it/paramotori/overview.php?lang=eng">This</a> one has a few specs for a few motors listed.

Did I say "chainsaw"?

Glen

 

[Tony Snyder]

I seen an untralite powered by Partner saw engines several years back.

Are these Solo engines specials made for this application?