Quiz 3 Warhawk Not allow………..

Melvyn,

try me at this e-mail address

[email]b25j@maine.rr.com[/email]

Its my work and I check it every couple of hours.

Melvyn,

Do you need any pics of it if so send me a private e-mail

BTW I tried and got told you had registered not to receive them.

Melvyn

Melvyn,

I’ll give the Museum a call tommorrow and see if I can get you the pics you need

That really is “how long is a piece of string”. Wings are complete, tail all done, fuselage complete to firewall except for tacho cable, oil pressure cable and the connections through the firewall for the engine controls. Carb went on today and I am waiting for a carb hot air box from the US. Prop sould be here in a couple of weeks and cowlings are being done.

I still have to rebuild the cowling mounting ring which hsa been fouling the rocker covers and I have to do the head lining. The picture was taken about three weeks ago when I put the engine on. The cowling looks a mess as it is, but the guy doing my cowling work is brilliant and it will look good as new.

Only likely hold ups are the engine baffles and paperwork, although a lot of the pre-paperwork paper has all been done.

My plan was to fly it to France at the end of next month but that is a no go. It could have happened but I have lost time to hold ups that are other people messing me around. Still, that is part of life’s rich experience. It will be this summer. If I had all the parts and someone to help I could have it done in less than a month.

It should move out of the crappy shed it is in towards the middle fo the month and then the wings will go on and I will start preparing for engine runs and taxy trials.

All I need now is to find someone who will insure it for a reasonable amount.

Thanks for the offer of photographs, I could have used that when i was chopping things up and trying to find how they should go together. AAAAH, just thought, could you get one of the underside of the main cowling. I need to see how the 8135 carb intake looks.

Mine used to be NC25403 by the way, now it is G-EVLE.

Melvyn

Melvyn,

NEAM still has the Ken-Royce in it.

Do you need any pics of it if so send me a private e-mail and I’ll talk to my friend down at NEAM to get somemore photos.

When do you think yours is going to take to the Air?

Well,

What you have here is a Rearwin 8135 Cloudster. This is most probably the one in the New England Air Museum in Connecticut (I can’t tell without checking). HEY, I just checked and it is!!!

The first two were built as 8090, (model 8, 90hp) with the Ken Royce 5F in early to mid 1939. Mine, as number three, was started as an 8090 and then converted on the line to become the first 8125 with the 120hp Ken Royce 7F, leaving the factory on 12 October 1939. 8125s were built until 1940 when the 8135 was introduced. This had a four inch longer engine mount and a third seat added behind the pilots. There was also the 8135T, a two-seat tandem instrument trainer that was built for Pan Am. Later versions had the Ken Royce 7G which had improved lubrication.

Several straight (side by side) Cloudsters were sold to Iran.

Mine now has a 145hp Warner Scarab (this type first fitted in 1968). Mine is also going to be in the factory scheme of Stearman Vermillion and Insignia Gold trim:

Off the top of my head, there is only one 8125 airworthy and mine will be soon (finished the wiring tonight). There is one 8090 that is airworthy (this was number four, started after mine but finished before) and there are at least four 8135s and a couple of 8135Ts airworthy too. A good site to look at is Eric Rearwin’s. This is www.rearwin.com.

Pic 1 is the airworthy 8125 owned by Ed Hora in Alabama (his picture). Pic 2 may or may not be mine.

I have not seen the one in Windsor Locks as I didn’t get time to get there last time I was over but I have seen the one in the San Diego Aerospace Museum, the one at Reading PA and a privately owned one. All were helpful for my rebuild but all were a long way off.

MH

Because Melvyn you have the other reported airworthy one, The sign states these were build after the War but I’m not going to split-hares with someone who owns one.

As for the engine what type does your’s have in it. Oh by the way go ahead and tell everyone what it is.

I got to take a peek inside it looks like it is a nice ride.

Heres a Hint it was build right after the War, their were only 24 of them and this is the only know Airworthy one.

Arm Waver if No one gets it by the end of the Day its all yours.

Built before the war (in the US). This one is 1940 or 41. There were 124, not 24 and this is not the only airworthy one, there are about six airworthy.

Built in Salinas, Kansas in an old bed factory.

The company was eventually managed (if that is the right word) by the last surviving Escadrille Lafayette pilot.

Mmmmmm, how DO I know all this????????

Melvyn

EASY!!!!!!

Melv

Ooohhh Someone else look on the FAA register…?

Porterfield CP55 powered by a continental A+C65 series engine

Heres a Hint it was build right after the War, their were only 24 of them and this is the only know Airworthy one.

Arm Waver if No one gets it by the end of the Day its all yours.

I’d better qualify that; it looks a bit like a DHC Beaver – I found a picture in an old magazine a few months ago and went looking to see what it could be.
Can’t remember the designation although I believe it might be a CP-something (after the guys initials…).

Flood.

It looks like a Porterfield…?

Flood.

I know but I did use an additional source… so I’ll keep quiet.