Some Stearman Update Pics

Howdy all,

Just took a few photos of my Boeing N2S-3 project today and thought I'd post them here in the Mtce Hangar. When I hung the new Air Repair firewall (it's magnificent!) she suddenly got alot bigger!

These are current as of Aug 13/08.



A few close ups:





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[Michel Lemieux]

Nice project Dan

Do you have the wings and engine ? ? What shape are they in ?

BTW, seem like a nice Ali Baba cave

What are all the cockpits in the background ? T6's ?

[skymstr02]

Forget the Stearman..tackle the BT-13.

Thanks. The wings are leaning up against the wall in the background. They're rebuilt with all new wood. The uppers are pretty much done (nothing's covered yet), one lower needs about a week to finish and the other needs about a winter. The center-section I haven't built yet, but the wood kit for it is stashed upstairs. The engine is zeroed and here on the floor but it's going back to a friend's local engine shop to be stripped down and reassembled. I pulled the scavenge screeen on it a couple of years ago while working on my other one and found it full of silicone (I hate silicone) and when I showed that to Dave (the engine guy) he was less than impressed.

All that cockpit/truss stuff in the background is more BT bits.

The BT is next in line, skymaster!

[Steven M. Dennis]

Very nice Dan!

Keep the updates coming.

Steve

[N3Njeff]

Very nice for a stearman

Sorry but I prefer the bridge truss look

Holy brick-outhouse! I thought a Stearman was rugged! That's actually the first naked N3N I've ever seen. What kind of metal is it made out of exactly?

(Nice job, btw. How much of it have you got?)

[gilt]

It was designed by engineers who had previously designed the Navy dirigibles.

Tom-

It was designed by engineers who had previously designed the Navy dirigibles.

Tom-

Did those dirigibles actually get off the ground?

[astixjr]

That's going to be a first class Stearman when it's done Dan. That hangar looks a bit tidy. Would you like me to come up there and give it that "lived in look" or maybe my specialty, the "Sanford and Sons Look"? I'm not cheap but I'm good and I can provide references. You know what they say, a clean hangar is a sure sign of a dirty mind.

Hey Albert, how's the Boeing going? You'll notice that you never see the OTHER side of the hangar in those shots! I was going to send you an email: that tach did indeed come off of a Fleet Fort - there was the a/c's service number on the tag. In fact it was the first production Fort. And on that tailcone access panel you sent me, I drilled the placard off yesterday and underneath it was a pristine, six square inch sample of USAAC pre-war blue. That's been carefully stashed away for the BT's paint library!

Thanks again. C'mon up anytime (bring your toolbox).

[astixjr]

Dan,
That's interesting news on the tach. What are the odds it would be from the first one in service? I wonder what the tag on the other one shows? I think I gave it to Eric D. thinking it might work in his Yale. I'm still wondering how my father in law wound up with one, maybe two Fleet Fort Tachometers. Happy to hear about the paint color sample. I would love to see the pre-WWII AAF blue and yellow scheme on a BT-13. I've got a monster truck tool box but you will need to come down with the C-130 and haul it up North. I don't have my A&P but I'm handy with an Adjustable Mexican Metric Wrench. In all honesty I consider it a succesful day at the hangar when I've managed to fix one more thing than I've broken. Got any 55 gallon drums of turret parts I can tip over? I'm really good at that.

[N3Njeff]

It was designed by engineers who had previously designed the Navy dirigibles.

Tom-

You got to remember, in the late 30's the navy was getting out of the rigid airship business. At that time they had all this aluminum laying around so they built airplanes.

[gilt]

Much heavier gauge aluminum but a similar design philosphy.

Greetings all,

A couple of recent update pictures of the Stearman. Progress has been a little slow with some of the other things rolling in and out of the shop, but it's coming - slowly.

Dan