Proctor
Was that my friend John Gallagher?

Christer,

It seems insurance is similar but not thes same in seperate countries. We are also planning to take a Klemm l25 and a Comper Swift to Oshkosh this year but the Australian companies will not cover anything in the USA. So seperate US insurance will be sought. Our 3rd party covers both passanger liability and damage on ground but not hull damage. The point is that personal injury has an element to it now of seeing what you can get out of it rather than responsibility for your own actions.

The incident

It is a question of balance!

We do not own these vintage aeroplanes, we are in effect in trust of them. They will live longer than we will and we will pass them on to others. The problem is that I receive great joy from sharing the experience with people and letting young folk in particular experience the aeroplanes.

The problem is societal in that greed can assert itself in someones character and then it is a lawers field day.

I will fight this and will not let the insurance Company “pay him off” as this sets in cement a precedent.

So I will continue to fly folk but have to confuse them with an ever more complex “Blood Chit”

DH 60

The DH60 in many ways has always been a bit like the lumberjack’s axe in that several of them have had 3 fus 4 sets of wings and 5 engines but are still the same aeroplane!

So that should make no difference. The protacol has been set with the metal fittings set for the Comper Swift which is easily, though expensivly, available in England.

John Greenland in the UK produced a “late production” Comper Swift though he did not use that fittings set. John had good Pobjoy engine to put in the project.

G Major engines have been “re-inverted” but I still have not worked out what they have done with the “Wet” sump.

I suspect that to produce a set of fittings for the G Moth there may be some form of legal problems as the aeroplane has been supported by different organizations throughout it’s life whereby the Comper Swift is somewhat of an orphan. The attachement is of one of our contributers starting the G Comper Swift at Albion Park

Mark,

Regarding engine installation in the Klemms,

Somewhere in my pile of unorginized paperwork is an intimation that during the design evolution of the Klemm over 40 perhaps as much as 46 different engines were popped onto the nose of the klemm.

If re-engining it I would probebly put a Rotec on it rather than a Pobjoy as it gives the impression of a “non-geared” radial as was.

What has stopped me in the past is that the Rotec is a lot heavier than the Pobjoy and I was waiting for the design to be refined a bit. However I now regret this delay as I have the possibillity of bringing the Klemm to Oshkosh next year as part of their theme of “Mission and Humanitarian Aviation”.

Over the next week or so this exciting project may mature but I have a lot of “stuff” to sort out first.

Is Nelson Wilson still involved activly with the swallow project? I havn’t seen G Wilson who lives in Sydney for some time now.

Roy

Comper swift

Try u-tube and type in Comper Swift,
3 will appear, an origional film of Arthur Butler loaded by “Bomber guy”, a film of the spanish pobjoy Comper and lastly our recent first fligt of a gipsy Comper at Camden this September.