Hogster Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 This is a nice in flight video of the sopwith snipe for all you WW1 biplane enthusiasts like me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly P Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 lovely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Racer Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Very nice to watch. lots of boots full o' rudder to keep it from drifting into the camera plane. Also made me feel better; I just recived a dark wood Zoar 19x8 WW1 prop for my Nieuport, and thought it might look big (1/4 scale), but as this snipe shows - big WW1 props are cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Hooper Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Makes you want to rush out and build one, doesn't it? tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hogster Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Glad you like it guys. I made a little mistake. Its not a restored aircraft, its actually a reproduction! Its been built by a guy in New Zealand. New zealand seems to be a hotbed of reproducing vintage aircraft at the moment. I dont know if its the same guy who did this, but someone has actually recreated all the jigs and tooling to manufacture a Mosquito. IIRC the guy has already got one nearly ready for flight and could produce another airframe in 6 months if anybody wants one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus O'Leprosy Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 there is an artical in this months Aeroplane or flypast I can't remember which Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daithi O Buitigh Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Try these guys - replica P51, Jungmann and FW 190 to order (don't I wish.......) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Olsen 1 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Well, that is the town I grew up in underneath, Masterton, New Zealand. Put your clocks forward 12 hours and back 100 years. The plane was built by a company called Vintage Aviator, check out their website if you like this sort of aircraft. They have built a replica German rotary engine, I don't know if they built the Bently as well. There are other aircraft they can build you as well, although nothing so modern as a P51 or FW190. Axctually the Americans operated P51s from Hood aerodrome (where the Sopwith would have taken off) during WWII. A few years later the Masterton Model Aircraft Club also operated from there, and I flew model planes there during the sixties as a teenager. This was sharing with the big stuff, it was reasonably busy with topdressing planes. (like cropdusting, but dropping lots of superphosphate fertiliser on the hill country. ) That was done with planes ranging from Tiger moths up to DC3s. There was a once a day passenger flight in an out using a DC3 as well. It is also a very popular place for gliders, good thermal conditions when the air is right, and a good wave formation when the Norweter is blowing, which, being in the roaring forties, is quite often. Don't ask about the time I was chasing a free flight plane across the main runway when I looked and saw the daily DC3 in the distance.... regards John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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