Glow plug engine now runs!

So as you can see my engine is running, my initial observations are:

You'll need gloves and some way of cleaning your hands in the field, these things can be a little messy, it won't mix well with electronics and spotlessly clean things, radio transmitters etc.

It's pretty noisy but not as bad as i thought

It does not come set up or ready to run, this is not plug an play, the engine needs to be run in and that alone is not so straightforward

There's a lot of vibration, this could well be an issue, we'll see

Everything in the prop wash will get covered in fine oil and airborne dust will stick to that

After 10 mins my basement (featured) was full of think blue smoke, you need to run these outside or in a very well ventilated area, I've named my little engine Greta now anyway, seemed appropriate

Anyway my initial opinion is this has loads of potential, can't wait to fly it

I've bought this glow plug engine to try and maximize the range of my 4G pixhawk guided long range uav, i'll be posting more in the coming days with some test running and thrust tests. Hopefully i'm getting close now to my original goal of making a long rage uav, we'll see, it was a lot harder than i originally envisaged but i'm getting there, slowly :)

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