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BOEING STEARMAN YELLOW AND BLUE MODEL 75 N2S-4 KAYDET BI PLANE ENGINE AND PROPELLER AT DAMYNS HALL AERODROME MILITARY CAR AND AIR SHOW ESSEX IN AN EAST LONDON BOROUGH SUBURB STREET VENUE PARK VENUE ENGLAND 9/8/2015
CRUISE SPEED 155km/h
DSCN0262 9-8-2015
Flight training in Stearmans at Randolph Field, San Antonio Texas, in 1943.
The “Kaydet”, Stearman Model 75, is a 2-seat military trainer built in the USA from the mid-1930‘s through early ‘40s as an initial flight trainer for pilots heading off to WWII. Widely known as the “Stearman”, over 9800 were built of all model types and thousands are still flying today in airshows and as “warbirds”. It’s also one of the most featured biplane aircraft in movies. The aircraft is configured so that the student with full instrumentation sits in front, and their instructor in back with duplicate flight controls.
The Army Air Corps used the nomenclature “PT” for primary trainer. The PT-17 version had a Continental R-670-5 power plant, with a horsepower varying from 210 to 240 at 2,200 rpm. Pilots nicknamed it, “The Washing Machine,” as it washed-out many students from the program. The US Navy version was all-yellow and is known as the N2S.
I have had the pleasure of a 30 minute ride in one and the instructor let me fly for 15 minutes at cruising altitude. It’s beautiful to handle, and the open cockpit is the most enjoyable way to fly!
Gresley N2 class 0-6-2T 4744 stands in the yard at Loughborough Central, Great Central Railway, 7th May 1978.
Locomotive History
In 1919 the Great Northern Railway required further suburban tank engines and decided that an improved 0-6-2T design based on the N1 class would meet this requirement.. The new design although based on the N1, featured larger diameter cylinders, piston valves (positioned above the cylinders, requiring a high-pitched boiler), a superheated boiler, and a greater water capacity.. The high pitched boiler combined with a short chimney to keep the locomotive with the Metropolitan loading gauge, gave the N2s a powerful appearance. Sixty locomotives were built by the Great Northern Railway between 1920 and 1921. The design was adapted as a Group Standard by the London and North Eastern railway and a further forty-seven were built between 1925 and 1929. 4744 is one of the Great Northern Railway engines (original number 1744) and was built in 1921 by the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow. 1744 was allocated to King's Cross on delivery from Glasgow and remained there until May 1962. It was re- numbered 4744 in 1924, 9523 in 1946 and 69523 in 1949. It was withdrawn from New England (Peterborough) in September 1962 having been stored there since May and moved to Doncaster works. It was acquired by the Gresley Society in October 1963 and moved from Doncaster Works to Harworth Colliery for storage. After steaming at the colliery it moved to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. By the early 1970’s the engine needed boiler repairs and The Main Line Steam Trust offered to undertake this work as the engine was considered ideal for the Great Central Railway and it moved to Quorn on 21st November 1975. Following this repair it entered traffic as 4744 in LNER black one month after this photograph on the 16th April 1978. For the next ten years the engine saw regular use, and was repainted as 69523 on the 14th November 1987. Following a ten yearly boiler overhaul, and a major rebuilt of the motion, the engine re-entered traffic on the 16th April 1994. The engine has just completed another ten year overhaul and has emerged in Great Northern Railway green as 1744. The engine moved to the North Norfolk Railway in 2017 and was withdrawn from service in November 2018 due to a leaking foundation ring. The current plan is to complete its next overhaul and have it back in operation in 2021 when it is intended that it will operate on the main line.
Praktica LTL, Ektachrome 200
G-OBEE ex U.S.Navy 3397/174 c/n75-1174 on departure from Easter Airfield after the Mid-Summer Fly-In 19/06/21.
Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75 N2S-4
s/n 30107 c/n 75-3546
Warrenton-Fauquier Airport (KHWY)
Warrenton, VA
29-8-2011 - Breitling Wingwalkers, Boeing Stearman N2S-3 Kaydet.
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The aircraft was built in 1942.
C/n - 75-5598
Look closely to see Peggy between the byplane's wings. One of the Wing-Walkers' last appearances before their retirement in September 2015. Internationale Luft-und Raumfahrtausstellung Berlin.
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Good, sharp modern color, eh?
Going through my archives and found somehow I didn't publish some Stearman images from the July 2015 Heritage Flight Museum (HFM) Fly Day so here you go. For more photos from that fly day - www.flickr.com/photos/avgeekjoe/albums/72157653738731323
Next HFM Fly Day is 16 July 2016. Hope to see you there!
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
With Continental Motors Corp'n W670-6N Reciprocating engine. Horsepower: 220. Seen at the September, 2011, Upper Cumberland Air Show, White County, Tennessee.
According to Wikipedia, the Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 is a biplane formerly used as a military trainer aircraft, of which at least 10,626 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Stearman Aircraft became a subsidiary of Boeing in 1934. Widely known as the Stearman, Boeing Stearman or Kaydet, it served as a primary trainer for the United States Army Air Forces, the United States Navy (as the NS and N2S), and with the Royal Canadian Air Force as the Kaydet throughout World War II.
Breitling (AeroSuperBatics)
Boeing N2S-3 Kaydet (B75N1)
SE-BOG / 4 (cn 75-7128)
Photographed at RIAT 2011. Fairford (FFD / EGVA)
UK - England.
16.July.2011.
Private, Stearman Kaydet N2S-1 / Boeing A75N1 (PT-17), 1942 built cn 75-1028, tempo based at Madrid Cuatro Vientos (LECU) paying a visit to Casarrubios del Monte aerodrome (LEMT)
Accepted by the US Navy on 7 December 7, 1943. The aircraft was flown to the Ottumwa, Iowa, Naval Air Station, where it was used to train naval aviation cadets until 1946.
Triebwagen 22 vom Typ KT8D5R.N2S kurz vor der Haltestelle Hegermühle. An dieser Stelle zweigte früher die Güterstrecke ab.
Boeing Stearman E75 N2S N43YP 6018 US Navy 443
Photo taken at Old Warden Shuttleworth Air Show 30th June 2024
DAF_3098
Performing a loop with Peggy standing on the top of the wings. One of the Wing-Walkers' last appearances before their retirement in September 2015. Internationale Luft-und Raumfahrtausstellung Berlin.
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