July 12, 2008
Mighty Atom model airplane engine 1934
This little engine is considered by some to be one of the ten finest ignition engines ever made. Its design was commissioned in 1939 by the Polk Brothers (then and for years to come, one of the bigest names in model aviation supplies and promotion) and executed by Ray Arden (who would later father the glow plug). Manufactured by "Microdyne Engines" NY, the engine was unusual for it's small size at the time of its inception. A patent application for the design (#115,974) was lodged on May 13, 1939. The original "Mighty Atom" contained several innovative features such as: front rotary intake from a fixed fuel jet combined with a variable air supply; bypass via a piston valve; ball and socket little end, and the nicest snap-action timer you've ever seen. All this at a weight equal to the coil it would need to run it!
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Shame that a neat …
Shame that a neat old film like this brought out a looney.
I have a Mighty Atom in my collection, it is a real old jewel. Don't see them every day now.
What a bunch of …
What a bunch of bizarre comments! Let alone spelling. Were you drunk?
eye never could …
eye never could aford these airoplanes cost a lot of dosh those days, in the 1967 68 eye had to make my own toys, i use to beleave santa when eye was a kid, put suck end of my bed all ways nothing in it when eye got up in the morning, thats how eye started making my paper air plane that came back and watching kung fu films, so eye put needels in front of my paper air plane to catch stinging bee and big flys
and not made of …
and not made of paper lol he he he
this what eye am …
this what eye am thinking with my paper airplane, but micro much much small and use light and the sun in space for energy, and eye in space cam, like take picture google earth up to date time mape