I find this fascinating, but I also love playing with RC planes and tiny engines. Who's volunteering to build a miniature O-470?

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More on the project here.

That guy has done some amazing work. He must be as addicted to shop work as most of the folks on this forum are to flying.

tom

Here's a 1/5 scale model Rolls Royce Merlin. Unbelievable.

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Some more detail on the engine and it's builder, Barry Hares, here:
http://www.enginehistory.org/merlin_xx.htm

He's apparently building an even more mind-boggling model of the Rolls Royce Eagle: http://www.modelenginenews.org/gallery/croft/eagle/index.html

Freaking amazing...can you imagine that little RR Merlin on a 1/4 scale P-51? I imaging it would be much to heavy for a model airplane but just to see it taxi around would be worth it.