| Owls Head Maine Museum Aeroplanes |
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| These are all beauties. Some original, some
replica; but the main emphasis is that they are still air worthy. |
 Left: The circa
1900 Clark feather covered Biwing Ornithopter
was intended to fly by flapping it's wings. It failed to fly, crashed and
was refitted with a 5 HP engine. |
 Right: A full
size replica of the 1903 Wright Brothers Flyer which in Kitty
Hawk, NC on Dec 17, 1903 flew 120 feet in with a 12 HP engine. |
 Left: This replica
of the 1909 Louis Bleriot's Type XI was the first to fly the
English channel from France to England. It's many innovations included the
monoplane wing, tractor engine, rear rudder, enclosed cockpit, horizontal
stabilizer and swiveling landing gear to permit crosswind takeoffs. |
 Right: A replica
of the 1913 Deperdussin Gordon Bennett Racer revolutionary
for it's silk, plywood, and glue monocoque fuselage. It set a record of
126 MPH in 1913. |
 Left: This 1916
RAF FE8 had a Lewis 30 cal. machine gun and pusher prop because
the 100 HP engine was not yet synchtonized to prevent shooting off the propellor.
This replica built in California, flew to the museum over 32 days and was
then donated. |
 Right: This
beauty was flying on Sunday. |
 Left: Check
out the monacle type windshield on the machine gun. Also the 2 extra round
hockey puck type cartride magazines with leather straps on the right side
of the cockpit. |
 Left: A replica
1916 Sopwith Pup with an 80 HP 9 cylinder engine. It flew
at 111 MPH and carried a Lewis 30 cal machine gun. |
 Right: An original
1917 Curtiss JN-4D aka the “Jenny”.
After WWI they were numerous and sold for $50. |
 Left: A replic
of the 1917 Fokker DR1 triplane flown my the Red Baron: Manfred
Von Richthofen and the infamous Hermann Goering. |
 Right: A replica
1917 Nieuport 28C.1 WWI fighter flown by the likes of US ace
Eddie Rickenbacker. It's 60 HP 4 cylinder Lycoming was good for 128 MPH
with one Vickers .303 cal. machine gun. |
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 Left: This original
1923 Fokker C.IV was restored and flew again in 1999. Although
logoed with a Tacoma to Tokyo label, it did not make this journey. |
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 Left: A
1931 Waco UBF-2 biplane
with a 210 HP 7 cylinder engine would cruise at 90 MPH. This one originally
had floats, and was used for spotting swordfish off Martha’s Vineyard. |
 Right: The
one and only 1933 Milliken M-1 Special home built. Begun by
16 yeal old Bill Milliken in 1927, it used a 4 cylinder Henderson motorcycle
engine. |
 Bill Milliken. |
 Right: An experimental
1945 Ganda Helicospeeder. |
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 Left: This 1940's
era RCAF Trainer was flying at the air show on Sunday. Cool. |
 Left: part of
the air show. |
 Right: This
1940's era Navy Corsair also flew on Sunday. |
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