SE 5A, Airdrome Aeroplanes SE5A WWI replica fighter experimental aircraft kit

womenfly2 · 10 October 2014, 04:52 AM

Enjoy,
WF2

Dart · 10 October 2014, 07:49 AM

Sweet. Too bad they didn't have any footage of flight - especially if Harvey is behind the stick and doing his blastoff takeoff.

What doesn't really show in the video is just how massive the plane is. It's a beast!

jumpinjan · 10 October 2014, 08:58 AM

"30 days to build"; Is that enough time to work out ALL the engineering problems to sell as a kit?
"110hp VW engine"; Is that sustained 110hp from a VW engine? I never heard that before.
"welded 4130 fuselage"; I have seen this welded fuselage, and make sure you grind down all the welding splatter from Robert's MIG welds before you paint and cover it.
He did a great job building & delivering it to the movie production site in 31 days. That's unbelievable.
Jan

Dart · 10 October 2014, 09:50 AM

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"30 days to build"; Is that enough time to work out ALL the engineering problems to sell as a kit?

Actually, it is. First, all of Robert's designs are evolutionary, not revolutionary - variations on the same themes over and over again.

Second, the kit will be different from the prototype - heck, my N11 is different from Jeff's N11 which is different from Dale's N17 (and they're the same plans with different dimensions - mine had all the N17 numbers scratched out with a sharpie and smaller ones written underneath!). Plans are always evolving with Robert Baslee.

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"110hp VW engine"; Is that sustained 110hp from a VW engine? I never heard that before.

Probably not sustained. But what company ever cites the sustained HP when talking about their engines?

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"welded 4130 fuselage"; I have seen this welded fuselage, and make sure you grind down all the welding splatter from Robert's MIG welds before you paint and cover it.

Pretty and Airdrome Airplanes have a casual relationship.

Of course for this one they weren't concerned with anything that would be "nice to do" that delayed the production of the aircraft. There's a whole lot of "gooder enough" on this aircraft if one gets up close and starts really looking at it. The camera won't catch 99% of the places that could have been done better, and only 1% of the audience would know they were looking at an imperfection.

The shame is that ultimately this aircraft is going to wind up sitting under the shed roof covered in dust and grime like the Flyboys N17's.

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He did a great job building & delivering it to the movie production site in 31 days. That's unbelievable.
Jan

Yep. He's got that practiced hand that makes things go really quick, and an ability to know where to put in a lot of effort and where to just make it close. I spent probably four hours putting my rudder together and it looked like crap. We made a new one at the HOP and he had the bow bent and everything ready for rivets in about three minutes.

JDS · 10 October 2014, 07:53 PM

Saw this at Oshkosh and Dayton of course. I'm already putting together my funds and will be calling Mr. Baslee by the end of the month to order the se5a. Looking forward to it.

TOMS · 10 October 2014, 08:40 PM

I just can't find anything about this movie "huba canoon" (might be me not understanding the name).
Does anybody have something about it?

RobW · 10 October 2014, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by TOMS

I just can't find anything about this movie "huba canoon" (might be me not understanding the name).
Does anybody have something about it?

It was called "out of the burning blue", somewhere in post production the name changed. There is a trailer on youtube...

wingandprop · 11 October 2014, 07:03 PM

I need to go up and talk to Robert and see the airplane first hand, but if all goes well I will probably be ordering one next month. I don't know how many orders Robert has, but he told me a long time back that he needed three airplane orders to commit to production. Between JDS and me we have two confirmed.

Matt

jumpinjan · 11 October 2014, 07:29 PM

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It was called "out of the burning blue", somewhere in post production the name changed. There is a trailer on youtube...

Wow, its terrible, just utterly terrible.
Jan
However, thanks for posting Rob.

JDS · 11 October 2014, 07:36 PM

Matt, I'm definitely sure about this. I'm going to call Mr. Baslee around Nov. 1st and put my order in. I've been waiting a long time for a full scale se5a and Robert hit the mark with this one. Prototype #2 is well along in Florida and I THINK there is another one as well. I'm looking forward to starting a build thread.