And I’m not talking about the Piper Enforcer here, either.
Take a look at this site:
http://www.cameronaircraft.com/index.html
Apparently one of these beasts can be built in a month! 😮
Reminds me of the replica Spit project I was offered last year. An all-GRP 3/4 scale job that was intended as a flyer had the owner not had an accident and had to dispose of it (ie, big pile of bits in the back garden + petrol + match!! 😮 ). Came with moulds and everything to build more of them! You chaps could have had a Spit each! 😉
Think the owner of the plane (and the bits) has either passed away, or disposed of the aircraft and the moulds by now, since I haven’t heard from him since March 🙁
By: DazDaMan - 29th July 2004 at 13:36
Bummer 🙁
By: oscar duck - 29th July 2004 at 13:05
I nearly flew it..got to taxy it..later the engine went kaput..while airborne with the late and great Guido Zuccoli at the controls. forced landed at Oakey Army Air Base and trucked back to Toowoomba never to fly in OZ again. Legal wrangles/blame etc etc
By: oscar duck - 29th July 2004 at 13:03
It had an average [meaning rough] paint job [looked like house paint]…coded XV-I wow….
By: DazDaMan - 29th July 2004 at 12:36
It was TE384….a crying shame she left us..but thatz OK if it flies.. [It did fly in OZ as VH-XVI a couple of times until the engine started making part numbers]
Know of any pics floating around?! 🙂
By: DazDaMan - 29th July 2004 at 12:35
The things people do to old warbirds, eh? :rolleyes: 😉
By: oscar duck - 29th July 2004 at 12:34
The Dart was from a Viscount. Cavalier used an engine config with the exhaust on the left side. HT didn’t bother with that detail…his engine of choice [cheap] was from the other side. Bit of a problem with exhaust eflux due to prop wash etc taking the gasses onto the fuselage and not away due to turning direction…
It was TE384….a crying shame she left us..but thatz OK if it flies.. [It did fly in OZ as VH-XVI a couple of times until the engine started making part numbers]
By: Archer - 29th July 2004 at 12:25
…..never flown like that.
And that’s a good thing too probably! With the Dart up front you’ve got a bit more power (depending on the mark of Dart fitted) and the nose is lengthened too to keep the CofG within limits. This means a lot more swing on take off, and from that photo it looks like a bog standard P-51 tail that’s fitted. I would suggest at least a Cavalier tail but probably even more than that to keep that contraption running straight on take off!
By: DazDaMan - 29th July 2004 at 12:16
Would that be TE384?
By: oscar duck - 29th July 2004 at 12:12
owned by Hockey Treloar…..never flown like that. Went derelict and exported to USofA. Now flying with a “real” engine..[ps: HT owned the Walrus in the RAFM traded for a Mk XVI which is now in the USofA and about 2 fly..]
By: DazDaMan - 29th July 2004 at 12:10
Yes, I agree with you there, Stieglitz, it looks much nicer than the “Grand” Mustang.
One wonders what its performance and the view out the front was like! 😀
By: Stieglitz - 29th July 2004 at 12:03
Maybe it did Daz. Looks nicer than the modern turbine in my opinion. Thanks Allen for that shot of the rare dart Mustang.
J.V.
By: DazDaMan - 29th July 2004 at 12:02
I take it it flew like that?! 😮
By: Stieglitz - 29th July 2004 at 11:26
What a ugly mustang development! 😮 Even if they only built one of those each month, it is still too much!
Give me the Packard-Merlin power! 😎
J.V.
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