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Mr Tweed,

Here is one for you.

I have a DH89 Rapide which origionally went to NZ as a Dominie. After the war it went to a local airline and then to NSW. It has never been rebuilt but only repaired and worked on incrementaly so that now it bears only some resemblence to the origional airframe. Such as new engines, rebuilt wings, repaired Fus and still has the patina of age. It has always been registered and never for extended periods been grounded.

What would you class it as?

It was open 2 sundays ago and a friend talked to Alan then. There was talk about a “Charatable Trust”. Genna {I am unsure of the spelling}Wilson was there and in a conversation re the Moth Minor she was enthused to restore it so it seem as of at least 2 weeks ago nothing changes.

Rapide

There is only one Rapide flying in Australia and that is VH-UTV. BGP is being rebuilt in NZ by Colin Smith and will eventually go to Perth with Mr John Ivers. Another Rapide is very close to flying in Melbourne with Mr Maurice Rolfe but that is your lot.

Thought you may like to see a 1930’s Kings Cup entrant currently being worked on in Sydney.

We hope to get her flying with Pobjoy engined VH-UVC either at the end of this year or the start of next.

As Bert Rutan says, “We do it for the “F” word, we do it for FUN”

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ozplane,
Eagle, Rapide and Klemm were all flying at the Nowra airshow last weekend. Terrific day and Glenn Alderton took some great photos. The Comper swift with the Gipsy came down by truck and was displayed on the grass. Some aeromodelers went daft with their cameras. We now have the first pobjoy running and as such the second should not take quite so long—5 years.

However the plot is to put the Pobjoy comper back in the air after the gipsy one and then move on the Short Scion. The wings of the Scion were badly corroded but I now have the correct extrusions to remake the warren truss of the main star. The extrusions have been wasted.

The problem of course is funds and time. They are interchangable with a quadratic type equation you know. But I have had some disappointment with our Foxmoth because every time I look at it another problem surfaces. The aeroplane was suposed to have been restored and flyable when we bought it but it nearly killed me on the delivery flight. And so everything touched on it turns to catcus.

Good things however abound and we had a great flyin at our strip at Wisemans a month or so ago with 19 aeroplanes arriving.

Next trip is to the AAAA flyin at Narrandra

NC 900
Give me the pitch and diameter of the prop and I can perhaps let you know if it is off a Scion, Swift or Swallow.