Tri-State Model Flyers Inc.

T.S.M.F. Fly-In & Swap Meet, June 16, 2012

Mark your calendars now and plan to attend Tri-State Model Flyers Fly-In & Swap Meet, June 16, 2012. We will have something for everyone, fun, food, flying, door prizes, 50/50 drawing and Vendors. Watch for the event to be announced in the AMA publication ‘Model Aviation. Click here for the Official Event Flyer. Hope to see you there!

Aviation History

The Stearman Biplane designed by the legendary Lloyd Stearman is this months featured aircraft. The First Steaman were designed and built in the late 1920s.

Besides Sport Planes like the Model C-2 and Model 6 "Cloudboy", Lloyd also designed and built the Model C-3 and C-4 "Speedmail", biplanes which had a large compartment for mail service. The Stearman LT-1 could cary four passengers and was equipped with a enclosed cabin and a mail compartment, but it had an open cockpit for the pilot.

In the early 1930's the Stearman Company designed and built trainers for the US Air Force and Navy, based on the earlier Model 6. The prototype, Model 70 took the skies in 1934, followed by the final production series Model 75, which had its maiden flight the same year. Designed as a military aerobatic trainer it featured a rugged airframe stressed to high load factors of 12 Gs positive and 9 Gs negative.

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TSMFClub YouTube Channel

Stearman N2S-5 Kaydet on display at the National Air and Space Museum Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Click the image above to view in full resolution.

This year Tri-State Model Flyers videos will be posted in our own You Tube Channel... http://www.youtube.com/TSMFClub

You Tube offers more than we currently have on our site, it offers HD videos streaming, a higher bandwidth and this will also give us another location to promote our club and hobby.

Stearman aircraft were the symbol for highly sophisticated and well built aircraft, but expensive machines. When the Stearman Company was taken over by Boeing this airplane became known as the BOEING STEARMAN, produced in large numbers by Boeing Airplane Company in Wichita, Kansas. Boeing’s Wichita Division produced over 10,000 Stearman trainers.

TECHNICAL NOTES:

Country : United States

Height : 9' 6"

Length : 25'

Max Weight.......2900 - 3200 lb

PERFORMANCE (based on engine configuration)

Max Speed..............186 mph

Cruising Speed.........105 - 125 mph

Stall Speed................55 mph

Take-off distance......300 - 900 ft

Landing distance...... 600 - 900 ft

Range.......................270 - 505 NM