Now there are a couple of blanks in the "collection" that represent the engines that got away.
A super fine engine that I should never have let slip away from me was an Enya .19 TV Marine engine that I had powering an R/C ski boat. The boat itself was nothing special I suppose. A rather heavily built fiberglass job, that I got second hand about half built, of some rather generic prototype, and unspecified brand, but perhaps because of the weight of the hull if was a good stable performer, and with the Enya engine it did perform reliably and well on all occasions that I recall. The only problem that it exhibited was running out of fuel mid-lake, so that I'd have to wait forever for it to drift back within reach, because it was just sooooo much fun, I'd lose track of time and keep it out too long. While probably not up to true racing speeds, it seemed plenty fast to me, and in a chop would pound right along only touching down on the water for an instant about every third wavecrest, and yet it appeared to be flying clean and smooth in so doing.
This image is not actually the engine I once had, but just a photo copied from the Worthpoint web page of a sale long completed:
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At about the same time I also had a very nice Super Tigre .20/23 R/C aircraft engine that was a super nice and very reliable engine that performed beautifully on all occasions. About the same time I sold the boat with the Enya .19 Marine engine in it, I also sold my Carl Goldberg Falcon 56 training plane with the Super Tigre engine in it. Both proved to be regretted sales in the long term, but at the time I was just completing college, was heavy into climbing and wasn't making use of these rather large items that were being "stored" at my parents house, though I was no longer living there, yet had no space to store them myself. Selling them on seemed the sensible thing at the time. Oddly enough I do still have the engine box for this one, as that is where I keep both of my Fox engines. Sort of gives me a jab between the ribs every time I see it.
Super Tigre .20/23 image from an R/C group thread:
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Don't know how this thumbnail of the Enya is attached below here as there is no line showing below this point when I go to edit, so I'll just live with it for now!?!?