Do you know Arm Weaver that I enjoyed posting them to you guys as always!

I have to report some more bad news (again). The Yak 52 who attended the event on saturday had a landing accident when it returned home after the event and attempted to land at its homeportb Kortrijk-Wevelgem in Belgium. 🙁 The flying Legends who also returned to EBKT saw the yak laying in the grass on the south side of the field. EBKT was closed for a short time but The Flying Legends got the permission to land on the grass.

The landinggear retracted while the aircraft touched down. The damage on the yak is moderate on the tail section. Otherwise the damage was minor. Let us hope the yak can be repaired in time to attend the Wings and wheels show at Ursel in August.

At the photo you can see the Yak when it made a better :rolleyes: landing last month at EBKT:

You are right. It is listed to be on display. Look at the flypast article from the museum in the flypast of july 1999. Thanks for that. It would be a good sight when they fly together again. That is a nice thought for the futur! 🙂

J.V.

The single seat closed cocpit stampe (V18) is airworthy with the stampe museum as OO-GWD. I saw it in the air 2 years ago. This is a original member of the duo. A other example which sometimes flew with the duo is a black painted SV4 twoseater (V64) and is on static show mostly at the Brussels air museum. I don’t know what happend with V28. I don’t think V28 has survived.

The two pics on top here I found on the net, the one at the bottom I took at Antwerp two years ago (sorry for the poor quality of the pic).

Greetings,

J.V.

All the closed Stampes are buit in Belgium. They were designed and built in Antwerp shortly after the war. They where built by the company Stampe&Renard and are SV4b. The french built SV4 all have open cocpits and are mostly SV4c.

All SV4b built in belgium where equiped with closed cocpits and gipsy major engines (as in the DH82). A total of 66 where built in antwerp for the belgian airforce only(military serial V1 to V66). Also in Antwerp, one SV4d was built with closed cocpit for the Belgian airforce and this plane is now on static display at the Brussels museum.

As you can see, it is possible to convert the belgian built plane to a open cocpit configuration. With the right equipment, it can be done very fast. There are even special sets to do it in one day. As you can see on the photo’s the orange SV4b (V4) is on display with a open cocpit. Last year it was on show with its closed cocpit. Also the belgian airforce did sometimes convert their SV4b to open cocpit configuration.

Some 33 examples of the Belgian closed cocpit version are believed to have survived with around 20 still flying.

So, hope this was helpfull!

Now a pic of a SV4b (V23). It was taken earlier this year at Kortrijk Belgium. This SV4b is blieved to be one of the most original surviving SV4b’s and is restored to its full original Belgian Airforce configuration.
Below that, you can see the SV4 (V4) with its closed cocpit during the 2003 stampe fly-inn. This year, it could be seen with its open cocpit as seen above.

Greets,
J.V.

I am glad it didn’t rain and that so many planes attended the 2 events this year. It was certainly one of the most interesting years in the history of these events. Thanks.

And to close one more chipmunk and some pics from flying planes:

And these planes during the taxi:

And some more nice chipmunks: