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super stearman
Posted by redwing on Sunday, February 14, 2010 8:17 PM

howdy all, a question does any company make a superstearman kit?this would be the wingwalking airshow type. in the mid seventies my father got the opertunity to twice take a ride on joe hughes superstearman.was his a special build ?any help would be apreciated thanks

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Sunday, February 14, 2010 8:39 PM

Hughe's Stearman was mainly different in the engine and cowl, It had either an R-985 or R-1340 for power and a 2aD30 prop.  In 1/72 Revell did a nice simple stock Stearman, in 1/48 Lindberg has a very old kit that is anemic in many areas and both are with stock engines.

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

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