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Posted: 09/June/2021 at 4:29pm  Quote
 
I was reviewing an old 8mm film (mid fifties) of my dad's and noticed this plane holding left rudder on take off. Is this a Stamp? I think they had motors that turned opposite of American made.



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Posted: 09/June/2021 at 5:20pm  Quote
 
Don't think it is a Stampe, as far as I know they all had inline engines.



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Posted: 09/June/2021 at 5:21pm  Quote
 
Appears to be larger than a Stearman. I think the rudder
is proper proportion to a WACO's. The only oddity is the
length of the landing gear at full extension.

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Posted: 09/June/2021 at 6:52pm  Quote
 
Cessna340:

That my friend is a Fleet, built by Reuben Fleet which later turned into Consolidated, then Convair, then General Dynamics. It had a 5 cylinder Kinner up front and a peculiar "rod and ring" landing gear cross struts where one had a ring and the other passed straight through. If you look crefully you can just see it. The vertical fin and rudder were not of this shape to start and a lot of mods were done to give it more rudder authority. I have seen one practically fly sideways with all that rudder. I hustled a ride in one once at an antique airshow in Vancouver, WA. years ago, boy was that a lot of fun!

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Posted: 09/June/2021 at 7:26pm  Quote
 
Dan,
That gear you described is very similar to the gear on my Boeing P12 that I’m building on the David Andersen thread. On the p12 there is a welded box through which the other half of the “X” is threaded. Lots of fun figuring out how to replicate.
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