Warbird Information Exchange

Anyone ever seen a Stearman set up with a rearward facing gunnery position?

http://www.ropkeyarmormuseum.com/video/ ... _Large.wmv

http://www.ropkeyarmormuseum.com/video/ ... _Large.wmv

There were soe export versions thatwent toSouth America that were armed and could carry small bombs underwing. They had bigger engines , maybe the 420 hp. Wright or something like that and they had a thinner, faster airfoil on the wings.
Don't know if any of the authentic ones still survive. The Pt-17 in the video appears to be stock other than the obvious mods from the back seat.

Is that the ole' Geneseo P-40 in the background of the first video at the end?

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i wasn't aware that any export versions were armed!! fabulous new info!! i'd love to see some pics of that from that era!!

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From Stearman Aircraft by Edward H Phillips:

The Model 76 had Edo floats and a light .30 caliber machine gun facing to the rear, along with bomb racks under the wings. Built with the Pratt and Whitney R-985 rated at 320 hp, six of these machines were exported to the Argentine Navy in 1936.

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I have had this photo in my collection for a very long time, but I do not know the name of the author. I'd suspect that it is either an official Boeing picture, or an Argentinean Navy's photo.



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Tulio

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Will the previous owner has pics of this double cabin sample

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have a look here:

http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Armada%20Ar ... an76D1.htm

Martin

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I believe that there's a Model 76 on display in the Brazilian Air Force Museum. All the drawings for it are on the Stearman blueprints CD set along with the Models 75 and 73. It was a sleaked up (kinda), souped up "attack" type Stearman, and I think some of them even saw combat in the Phillipines.

an " attack Stearman ", never thought I'd see those two words used together in the same sentence !

Sure looks that way. Thanks everyone!

Now that I think about it, I remember a couple of years ago somebody talking on the SRA about building a -76. Don't know if that's it or not. Does look like mostly a -75.

That is how it's registered, with a W670.

This was the plane in the SRA Magazine, that was being converted to a Mdl 76. It was on display at the Chino show back in May of this year. As I recall in the article, there are issues with the floats that they used, that will keep this plane from ever flying off of the water.

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The floats that Boeing used for them originally were EDO 3430's, which are a great handling float and are still very commonly used on Cessna 185's and 206's. The airline that I work for had a couple of Model 75 sprayers postwar and at least one was mounted on these floats.