Warbird Information Exchange

Rather than add to the other thread I decided to start a new one.
Here are a few, if theres enough interest I'll post more?

BIG smile, and long sigh- THNX

Dang it!!! Boy I screwed up and missed it!!!!!
Thanks for the great pics!

steve dickey wrote:Rather than add to the other thread I decided to start a new one.
Here are a few, if theres enough interest I'll post more?

Yes Please

And.....What's a "Pitcairn" Stearman? I feel like I ought to know about that.....looks like a maybe a Pitcairn fuselage with Stearman wings??

Steve

Airplanejunkie wrote: And.....What's a "Pitcairn" Stearman? I feel like I ought to know about that.....looks like a maybe a Pitcairn fuselage with Stearman wings??

The whole airplane is a Stearman 75 with alterations to get early 30's mail plane looks:

Bendix style wheels/tires
Outrigger main gear
altered vertical tail surfaces
set back cockpit
headrest
cowled front pit to appear as a mail compartment
collar exhaust with dishpan in lieu of a heater trough

A clever and atractive modification.

Wheels up wrote:

Airplanejunkie wrote: And.....What's a "Pitcairn" Stearman? I feel like I ought to know about that.....looks like a maybe a Pitcairn fuselage with Stearman wings??

The whole airplane is a Stearman 75 with alterations to get early 30's mail plane looks:

Bendix style wheels/tires
Outrigger main gear
altered vertical tail surfaces
set back cockpit
headrest
cowled front pit to appear as a mail compartment
collar exhaust with dishpan in lieu of a heater trough

A clever and atractive modification.

It is cool looking!

I'm assuming, then, that the term "Pitcairn" is simply a nod to the "mailplane" look and that there is no particular "Pitcairn" connection???

Steve, how about some i.d. on these? BTW I really like your group shot artsy photos, especially the one of the round engines.

Doug Ratchford

Airplanejunkie wrote:

steve dickey wrote:Rather than add to the other thread I decided to start a new one.
Here are a few, if theres enough interest I'll post more?

Yes Please

And.....What's a "Pitcairn" Stearman? I feel like I ought to know about that.....looks like a maybe a Pitcairn fuselage with Stearman wings??

Steve

Sum mo!
I had my dog with me and Sunday morning we stopped by the field on the way out to take some departures, so naturally I had to put her in a shot or two , I only included the best one I thought
















Me after my first ever Biplane ride!! What a hoot

Canso42 wrote:Steve, how about some i.d. on these? BTW I really like your group shot artsy photos, especially the one of the round engines.

Doug Ratchford

Hi Doug, What kinda ID you want? N #'s or A/C make and model? Most of the shots I put up U should be able to read the N # so u can look it in FAA data base and it will give you make and model... If you cant read the N # let me know or copy which photo (A/C) you want ID'd and we'll see what we can do
Thanks for the interest.

Does anyone has accurate color pictures of Fleet NC771V? I particulary like this aircraft coloring. This aircraft has been at this year's biplane expo.
Hans

steve dickey wrote:

Airplanejunkie wrote:

steve dickey wrote:Rather than add to the other thread I decided to start a new one.
Here are a few, if theres enough interest I'll post more?

Yes Please

And.....What's a "Pitcairn" Stearman? I feel like I ought to know about that.....looks like a maybe a Pitcairn fuselage with Stearman wings??

Steve

Me after my first ever Biplane ride!! What a hoot

Something about an open cockpits, flying wires and grass runways.... soothes the soul.....

Many thanks for the photos!!

Steve

stearmoth wrote:Does anyone has accurate color pictures of Fleet NC771V? I particulary like this aircraft coloring. This aircraft has been at this year's biplane expo.
Hans

Hi Hans, I hope these will work its all I took sorry .
If you need bigger I can send ya bigger?

Got it Steve. Just an enthusiasm before thinking reaction. duh. I'd like some background behind that Fokker DVII. Gotta be a replica as valuable as an orig. would be, right? Pretty dog. Border Collie?

Doug

Canso42 wrote:Got it Steve. Just an enthusiasm before thinking reaction. duh. I'd like some background behind that Fokker DVII. Gotta be a replica as valuable as an orig. would be, right? Pretty dog. Border Collie?

Doug

Thanks Doug, she's BC/Aussie Shepperd
As for the Fokker here are a couple more pics, oh and I added in an SE5 that is in the Museum there.

















The N# is 1918P, you can see in the cockpit shot the Experimental data tag below the RPM guage. Here's the FAA print out on it: Unfortunatly the sign for the A/C was built into the step(pretty clever!) and I didn't get a pic of it and I'm not sure what kind of engine it has?

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry ... rtxt=1918P

Ranger engine, converted to run upright. Note both wings are one piece, constant chord, but taper in thickness from root to tip, a challenge to build, with tapered box spars.




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