Sopwith Camel Replica, Airdrome Aeroplanes

Подписаться 91 тыс.

Просмотров 13 тыс.

50% 1

Sopwith Camel Replica, Airdrome Aeroplanes
/ lightsportandultraligh... - Help support the Light Sport & Ultralight Flyer by becoming a Patron, contributions start at as little as $1.00 per month!
Visit - / lightsportandultraligh... to sign up.
You can also purchase a yearly or life time subscription at www.ultralightflyer.com
Thank You for your support!
Sopwith Camel Replica, Airdrome Aeroplanes
Hi everyone
It's Sunday the day after and I am at the Plant filling orders to ship to Mexico.
This gives me lots of time to reflect and soak on how this plane compares to all the rest of Baslees creations.
All I can say is that it is clearly in a class of it's own.
Several have asked me how it compares to my other favorite which is Butch Whitlocks Fokker D-7
They are both true classic art forms.
Butch's D-7 is more Picaso with it's bright colors and blistering flight performance namely rocketing rate of climb and snappy roll Rate.
Butches plane has the WW1 look with modern day performance and reliability.
Now this Sopwith Camel by Russ Turner would have to be a Micheal Angelo.
With a welded chromoly Fuselage and stainless rolled flying wires and 9 cylinder radial it becomes a time machine.
This plane is all that a replica builder could ever hope for.....
The real thing.
This plane is truely a time machine taking me back in time without the nasty realities that the real Camels had.
This is a super sweet handling plane.
No it doesn't do the Baslee blast off and it's ailerons won't snap your neck.
Instead it just makes your spine tingle and gives you goose bumps.
Here it is a day later and I am still grinning like a hound dog eating briars.
It has been raining all morning so I may not get to fly it again until after Oshkosh.
I'm sure this plane has a lot more to say.
Harvey
www.ultralightflyer.com Video and Audio content is Copyright © The Ultralight Flyer Video Magazine. This video and audio material may not be reproduced in any form without written permission.
Help support The Ultralight Flyer Video Magazine by subscribing to our PAID subscription video magazine at www.ultralightflyer.com
Thank You for your continued support!
RELATED SEARCH TERMS:
experimental aircraft, experimental amateurbuilt aircraft video, homebuilt aircraft, homebuilt aircraft kits, home built aircraft, homebuilt aircraft plans, sport aircraft, light sport aircraft, light sport aircraft kits, light sport aircraft for sale, light sport aircraft manufacturers, sport planes, sport aircraft, light sport planes,
TAGS:
airdrome aeroplanes, Airdrome Aeroplanes, Robert Baslee, airdrome aeroplanes sopwith camel, airdrome aeroplanes reviews, www.airdromeaeroplanes.com, sopwith schneider, replica ww1 airplanes,
www.ultralightflyer.com - Sopwith Camel Replica, Airdrome Aeroplanes
• Sopwith Camel Replica,...

Спорт

Опубликовано:

15 май 2019

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 17

@apfelsnutz 5 лет назад

Robert, when you get to the Spad VII... I'll buy one. Promise... 80% scale is good.

@rebekah-chriss-k4872 4 года назад

I agree really love the spad

@richardbrowne1217 5 лет назад

I wish they came out with the Softwith triplane.

@redwa11er 3 года назад

I'm surprised he hasn't yet.

@mishawakapost2681 5 лет назад

Fist bumps 👊👊👊👊👊, high fives/pats on the back ✋✋✋✋✋, extra thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍

@josefmelech617 Год назад

would this work with a verner scarlet 9s?

@PoleyB1 4 года назад

Do you sell the plans for this or just the total kit.

@ultralightnews 4 года назад

Robert sells kits, no plans that I am aware of. The Ultralight Flyer

@KlingonCaptain 3 года назад

Are they not selling this kit right now? I can't find it on their order form.

@ultralightnews 3 года назад

Yes kits are available, just email Robert from the website.

@KlingonCaptain 3 года назад

@@ultralightnews Thank you. 😁

@rconger24 5 лет назад

It had been only a decade or so since Orville and Wilbur but what looked like budding radial engine technology was driving down a blind alley. Yes, the crankshaft was attached to the airplane and the propeller to the engine "block." It looked like a radial, but was called "rotary" because the cylinders or "block" spun with the propeller attached to it. The result was a wildly gyrating mass that caused the Camel to turn more than willingly in one direction, but with difficulty in the other. So definitely yes, in this application the use of a modern engine design is sensible. In choosing sensible and modern, another aspect was fuel. Gasoline development was in its infancy and high octane Avgas did not exist. They used a bean based castor oil for fuel. The thick, pungent film got onto everything and the exhaust was a plume that trailed in the air wherever the plane flew. Of such was Aviation a hundred years ago....

@johnbeauvais3159 4 года назад

The castor oil was for lubrication not fuel, the problem with a rotary engine was that the oil system was open ended, it flowed from a tank into the cylinders of the engine and out the exhaust. This meant that a rotary burned approximately 6 quarts of oil per hour. Also the gyroscopic impact of the engine isn’t as extreme as is often claimed, once the pilot had a couple hours flight experience he would be largely aware of how to counter for the impact of the torque.

@stuartwillardscreenworx4035 3 года назад

Indeed almost as many pilots died flying the original as were killed by the enemy, so not a good idea to try to fly that sort of set up now. However of course the skilled pilot very much used that to his advantage not unlike the modern pilot exploits the aerodynamically unstable characteristics of a modern fighter... but without the computers to keep him alive.