GWS PT-17 Stearman

November 17, 2003
   This airplane had excited me since the first time I saw it on the GWS website. I love Biplanes and really didn't want the slow flying tiger moth, even though I had heard good things about it. So when I saw a PT-17 in the hobby shop I decided to buy one instead of the E-Starter I had planned on buying. I haven't had much experience with ailerons (Just the Zero and the Mustang) and I was told that this would make a decent aileron trainer, unlike the low-wing design of the two fighters. Here are some pics:

Fuse with tape holding on pilots windshield

Wing on left is top; Right, bottom. Blue circles are anchors for struts.

March 18th, 2004

Stearman in flight. Flies Great, taught me how to fly ailerons with ease. Still flying.

Custom Pilot, Oh yeah

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