TA DAAAAAHH!
In third place with the misfired cartridge trophy is
is Kiltrash with
On the final approach to Marham the Pilot fed up with the Navs whinging gave in to his primal thoughts and gave the back seater a Martin Baker tie pin.
In second place with the WW1 instruction manual for the first version of the CST is
NutLoose with
Flt Lt Stuart Pid never forgave his parents for naming him thus....
In FIRST PLACE with the CST trophy is . . .
SASless with
Who is stupid....Stupid or the guy riding with Stupid?
I’ve engaged the Grace L Ferguson Airline and Stormdoor company to Air Express it to you with their steam powered Executive TravelAir Biplane.
Delivery date a bit uncertain as the spring loaded Airspeed indicator on the inboard strut needs recalibration . .
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_Air_2000
The
Travel Air 2000/3000/4000 (originally, the
Model A,
Model B and Model
BH[1] and later marketed as a
Curtiss-Wright product under the names
CW-14,
Speedwing,
Sportsman and
Osprey), were open-cockpit
biplane aircraft produced in the United States in the late 1920s by the
Travel Air Manufacturing Company. During the period from 1924–1929, Travel Air produced more aircraft than any other American manufacturer, including over 1,000 biplanes (some estimates range from 1,200 to nearly 2,000)
Steam-powered
In 1933 a Travel Air 2000 was modified by
George and William Besler where the usual inline or radial gasoline piston engine was replaced by an oil-fired, reversible 90° angle V-twin
angle-compound engine of their own design, which became the first fixed-wing airplane to successful fly using a
steam engine of any type