A couple of photos from our 8 plane WW 1 fly-in and a holiday photo of the Aerodrome ( FAA designation 50 OH )
Happy New Year everyone! Hope to see some of you at our Labor Day WW 1 Aero-Picnic.
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A couple of photos from our 8 plane WW 1 fly-in and a holiday photo of the Aerodrome ( FAA designation 50 OH )
Happy New Year everyone! Hope to see some of you at our Labor Day WW 1 Aero-Picnic.
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In addition to our Sopwith Camel, here are some of the aircraft at the 27=28 Sept Dawn Patrol Rendezvous here in Dayton!
Flying Fokker D.VII
Static Fokker D.VII
Flying Fokker D.VII
Static...
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Teaming with the USAF Museum, the Great War Aeroplane Association will be hosting the "Dawn Patrol Rendezvous...
Me and my trusty Sopwith Camel on the hunt for the wily Hun over Texas....
Winter comes to our modest Aerodrome!
No open cockpit today!
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Although now with a new owner in Georgia, our Sopwith Baby is on the cover of Feb 'Kitplanes'!!
Even though she has left home, dad is still proud for his 'baby'.
Thanks. The Camel really pushed Robert's usual operating norms pretty far. It ended up being the heaviest plane he had at 940 pounds, incidentally almost exactly what an original Camel weighed empty....
The market demographic for this engine was never anything but WW1 replicas, I would imagine. It actually is a pretty active and growing group. With original engines prohibitively expensive, this...
From the folks I talk to that fly these things, the smaller engines (like this one and the Le Rhône 80) are not hard to fly, just different to fly. Fred Murrin and Paul Daughtery say that you just...
Here's a video of a new build Gnome rotary that will be commercially available. It shows how the valve gear/timing works. Engine #1 is very near running. We have a deposit on engine #2 for our little...
Thanks to dogged persistence, the power lines at the end of the runway are now buried, leaving clear approaches over bean fields on both sides of the 1600' x 150' landing field. Thanks to he...
The French farm house is coming along..., well, a French farm house that has to meet modern building codes, have heat, a/c and indoor plumbing. It's at the end of the polar lined French country road...
Here is our modest start in the Aerodrome Watch Office. The 1915 Victrola currently is playing the 1913 recording of "Archibald, Certainly Not!" by George Robey....
That is terrific -- thanks!!!
Similarly, but on more of a peasant scale, we are building a small northern French/Normandy-inspired farm cottage on the poplar-lined drive to the aerodrome. There will be an orchard of English...
Very cool place. A half kilometer is right at 1600 feet. Very cool wife. :)
I am basically trying to do the same. The small farm cottage is a modest 1300+ old European type for just me. It is on a long driveway lined with poplar type trees resembling a rural French country...
Thanks for the posts everyone. Hope to have a fly-in picnic next Spring with the Sopwith flying, and as suggested, will have something with the DPR next fall at the USAF...
Not sure where to put this or if there is interest, but I am trying to build a modest aerodrome, hoping to keep in a WW1 theme to match a Sopwith Camel replica. My budget is somewhat modest, so we...
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Many small engines, such as tractors, use a single starter/generator for both functions, also sometimes called motor generators. Very large starter generators are used on turbine engines. Is there...
Yes, this is the Airdrome full size 1916 Sopwith Baby replica that was at Oshkosh, now detailed and repainted, LICENSED AND FLYING.The airplane weighs in at 890 pounds and has a 400 pound load and...
TTD: Will remount Lewis gun and finish leather cockpit coaming. Later have to finish brakes and replace front aluminum landing gear and skid with ash, converting from 5/17 compass to more correct...
Flown in formation with a 100 hp Piper Cub, here is the Airdrome Sopwith over Missouri. Photos courtesy Bob Punch.
After months of a difficult work schedule, weather, and distractions, all of the pieces came together.
The Airdrome Sopwith Hamble Baby replica flew today. The landplane version of the seaplane...