Engine Roundup
1955 Air Trails Annual Edition

Annual Edition 1955 Air Trails

Table of Contents These pages from vintage modeling magazines like Flying Aces, Air Trails, American Modeler, American Aircraft Modeler, Young Men, Flying Models, Model Airplane News, R/C Modeler, captured the era. All copyrights acknowledged.

From the 1955 Annual edition of Air Trails: "Here is one of the most informative collections to date of engine drawings and data. The information in the chart has been furnished to us by the manufacturer. Each engine 3-view is full size and is keyed by a number to the chart. You are invited to test your skill by identifying these motors before checking chart." A total of 68 engines are included from Allyn, Atwood, Cameron, Cheminol, Cox, Forster, Fox, Henry, Herkimer, Holland, K&B, and McCoy include nitro and diesel power for aircraft, cars, and boats. I measured one engine on each page and indicated its full-scale size so you can use it to scale any of the others on the page.

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1955 Model Engine Specifications Chart (27) McCoy "9" Diesel .09 (25) K&B Torpedo "35" .35 (2) Allyn Sea Fury Outboard .049 (17) Herkimer OK Cub "14" .14 (8) Cheminol O&R Marine .29 (23) K&B Torpedo "23" .23 (7) Cheminol O&R "33" .33 (24) K&B Torpedo "29" .29 (28) McCoy "9" Sportsman .09 (5) Cameron L-19 .19 (22) K&B Torpedo "15" .15 (13) Fox "19" .19 (4) Atwood Inboard Water-cooled .049 (14) Henry Veco "35" .35 (6) Cameron Marine "09" .09 (19) Herkimer OK Cub "049" Diesel .049 (18) Herkimer OK Cub "19" .19 (1) Allyn Sky Fury .049 (20) Herkimer OK Cub "075" Diesel .075 (3) Atwood Free Flight .049 (9) Cox space Bug .049 (26) McCoy ".049" Diesel .049 (21) Holland Wasp .049 (16) Herkimer OK Cub "099" .099 (11) Cox Space Bug Jr. .049 (15) Herkimer OK Cub "049B" .049 (10) Cox Thermal Hopper .049

(23) K&B Torpedo "23" .23 (17) Herkimer OK Cub "14" .14 (8) Cheminol O&R Marine .29 (25) K&B Torpedo "35" .35 (2) Allyn Sea Fury Outboard .049 (5) Cameron L-19 .19 (12) Forster F-29 .29 (28) McCoy "9" Sportsman .09 (24) K&B Torpedo "29" .29 (7) Cheminol O&R "33" .33 (14) Henry Veco "35" .35 (13) Fox "19" .19 (4) Atwood Inboard Water-cooled .049 (1) Allyn Sky Fury .049 (18) Herkimer OK Cub "19" .19 (19) Herkimer OK Cub "049" Diesel .049 (6) Cameron Marine "09" .09 (15) Herkimer OK Cub "049B" .049 (11) Cox Space Bug Jr. .049 (21) Holland Wasp .049 (10) Cox Thermal Hopper .049 (16) Herkimer OK Cub "099" .099 (26) McCoy ".049" Diesel .049 (20) Herkimer OK Cub "075" Diesel .075 (9) Cox space Bug .049 (3) Atwood Free Flight .049

Articles About Engines and Motors for Model Airplanes, Boats, and Cars:

• AT's Post-War Motor Roundup - September 1949 Air Trails
• Motor of the Month: K&B Torpedo .049 Engine - November 1952 Air Trails
• Mills "Brothers" - ½   Diesel Engines from England - January 1952 Air Trails
• World's Smallest Mass-Produced Glow Plug Engine Unveiled by Cox - May 1961 American Modeler
• Cameron .09 Marine Engine - July 1954 Air Trails
• Electromotive Power Plants - March 1974 American Aircraft Modeler
• Netzeband Reports on the Aero 35 Horizontal Piston Engine - October 1963 American Modeler
• Wankel Engine Models - July-August 1963 American Modeler
• Multi-Cylinder Engines - March 1967 American Modeler
• Air Progress: The Jet Engine - July 1951 Air Trails
• 50-HT Hopped-Up Jetex - March-April 1963 American Modeler
• Allyn .049 Sky Fury Engine Review - May 1954 Model Airplane News
• CO2 Power is Coming Back - April 1969 American Aircraft Modeler
• Cordless Electric Flight Motors - July 1973 American Aircraft Modeler
• Cox Babe Bee .049 Engine - Operation & Troubleshooting Guide
• Babe Bee: New Member of the Cox Family - April 1957 American Modeler
• Cox Golden Bee .049 Engine - Photo of disassembled engine
• Cox Thimble Drone PeeWee .020 Engine - Engine photo & operation sheet
• Junior 451 / DP-03 CO2 Model Airplane Motor - Photos, user's guide, and video of it running
• Designing a Ducted Fan - February 1971 American Aircraft Modeler
• Ducted Fans!  --  Scale-Like R/C Planes - March 1962 American Modeler
• Dyna-Jet Engine - June 1957 American Modeler
• Engine Idling Secrets (Part 1) | (Part 2)

      November & December 1962 American Modeler

• Engine Roundup - 1955 Air Trails Annual Edition
• Eureka Importing Company "Tiger Jet" Ad - July 1957 American Modeler
• Fox 15 C/L Engine - Photo of my 1st engine bigger than a Cox .049
• Fox 35 C/L Stunt Engine - Photo of my next C/L engine,
• Fox 40 R/C Advertisement - April 1962 American Modeler
• Gentlemen, Start Your Engines! - August 1969 American Aircraft Modeler
• Global Engine Review - 1963 Annual Edition American Modeler
• Hot Engines! - January/February 1963 American Modeler Article
• How Bill Wisniewski Reworks His Engines - June 1957 American Modeler
• How to Select the Proper Glow Plug ... and Why - 1963 Annual Edition American Modeler
• Inside the Two-Cycle Engine - February 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
• Iron Curtain Engines - Da? Nyet? - August 1962 American Modeler
• Jetex Jet Engine Ad - May 1954 Model Airplane News
• Jetex Motors & Fuel Pellets - Photos of my collection of motors
• Johnson Engines Continue on Improvement Program - February 1957 American Modeler
• Powerplant Revue: Hi's Radio Mill Proves Potent Yet Docile .35 - February 1962 American Modeler
• McCoy .35 Red Head C/L Engine - Photos of my engine and the user's sheet
• Model Motor Museums (Part 1) | (Part 2)

      November & December 1959 American Modeler

• Netzeband Reports on a Horizontal Piston Engine

       September/October 1963 American Modeler

• Norvell .15BB Revlite C/L Engine - Photos of my engine
• O.S. 25 LA Engine - Photos of my engine
• Outboard Model Boat Motors - Advertisements of many different outboards
• Rubber Motor Testing - August 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
• There's a Wankel in Your Future - June 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
• Thimble-Drome Piper Super Cub 105 - October 1957 American Modeler
• The Visible Wasp Airplane and V-8 Automobile Engines - Advertisements
• The Wright Cyclone 9 Radial Aircraft Engine - by Monogram

Posted November 16, 2013