{"id":4681,"date":"2020-10-15T11:19:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:24:13","slug":"kwik-fli-slow-build-the-enya-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2020\/10\/15\/kwik-fli-slow-build-the-enya-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwik-Fli, Slow Build: The Enya 60"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kwik-Fli,<\/a>Phil Kraft originally flew his Kwik-Fli Mk. II with a Veco 45, but settled on using a larger engine \u2013 most notably the MRC Enya 60 II TV. With this model and engine, Phil repeatedly won \u2013 and earned himself a spot on the USA Team heading to the 1967 RC World Championships \u2013 and then won the 1967 RC World Championships (flying the Kwik-Fli Mk. III).<\/p>\n

The Enya 60 II TV has twin ball bearings, weighs 13.6 ounces and a maximum of 1.1 horsepower, with a high speed of 10,000-12,500 rpm.<\/p>\n

\"Ad<\/a>
Part of an Enya 60 ad, from Model Airplane News<\/em>, January 1967.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Beppe Fascione, however, decided to go a slightly different route. According to his log entry of 13 March 2011, \u201cAfter a lot of thought and test, I\u2019ve decide to use on this a\/c the ENYA 60 III with a G-8 Carb on a back plate. It\u2019s an engine I had planned to install on the Mk. III, but then I discovered the Top Flite kit calls for wood bearings, so I decided to use a Kraft 61 there.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it came time to donate the Kwik-Fli to the museum, Beppe decided that his engine choice wasn\u2019t close enough to Phil\u2019s original Enya, and he instead found an installed a Enya 60 II with exhaust baffle, which isn\u2019t quite what Phil used, but Beppe thought was a closer choice. This is still the engine installed in the model.<\/p>\n

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The Enya 60 with exhaust baffle installed in the Kwik-Fli Mk. II.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
Close up of the engine installed in the nose of the Kwik-Fli Mk. II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next post: November 9, 2020<\/p>\n

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Phil Kraft originally flew his Kwik-Fli Mk. II with a Veco 45, but settled on using a larger engine \u2013 most notably the MRC Enya 60 II TV. With this model and engine, Phil repeatedly won \u2013 and earned himself a spot on the USA Team heading to the 1967 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[276],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kwik-fli-slow-build","tag-kwik-fli-slow-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4724,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions\/4724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}