Summer 2021. How do Museum volunteers pass their time in a summer with no airshows to attend? They keep busy with projects that get most attention in the gloomy winter days.
For the Museum’s de Havilland Tiger Moth, it is a matter of a major upgrade to the electrical system to give it battery power and a starting system to do away with the specialist skill of swinging the propellor to start the engine.
The Tiger Moth’s updated instrument panel.
The Museum’s Sopwith Pup replica is getting some annual maintenance in the engine room…
Another project is to present a Velie engine for display. It’s Ok if you say, “A what?” Unless you were active in the light plane world in the 1920s or ’30s you may not have heard of it!
The Velie M5 is a 5-cylinder radial engine from the 1920s.
For more on the story of this engine, see the Restoration section of this website; Velie