Over the last 2 weekends, some of the CAMS team have been over in Mapua (Nelson) helping with getting the DH Mosquito ready for transport to the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre. It will go on display in the museum after some tidy up work has been completed on the aircraft. The Mosquito, like some [...]
We have just finished making some P40 Main Retract Tees. The tee fitting screws into the end of the piston rod on the retract cylinder to retract undercarriage. After being told of a cracking issues from a client and after discussions with him lead us to make some small but important modifications before we [...]
A brief run down of the development/evolution of the CAMS Gnome. With the lockdown here in NZ I have some spare time to put together an outline of our journey so far. We have learned a lot along the way but even after eight engines we are still making subtle changes. It was eight [...]
As from today, Wednesday 25 March Classic Aero Machining Service will be closed for at least 4 weeks as per the government requirements to help reduce the effect of Covid -19 on all New Zealanders . This is going to have a large effect on all of us but it needs to happen to [...]
A lovely cool, still morning yesterday provided the perfect opportunity for some Allied testing on a Fokker DR.1 propeller. This prop has been made by Jeff Fox and will be shipped with engine #008 to be fitted to a Fokker DR.1. Please to say our resident Sopwith Pup pilot Wayne was very happy with [...]
Over the last couple of months we have completed the build and tests runs on engines #006 and #008, we have also had the owners of the engines visit the workshop and run their engines on the test stand. Both engines are now ready to be shipped to their new home. Here is a [...]
Monday ended on a high around the workshop with engine #006 being wheeled out of the shop for its first test run. The engine ran really well (even got a nice wee flame on startup). Engine started first blade and ran very smoothly. Another fantastic team effort from everyone here at CAMS and now [...]
On Saturday, November 9th, 2019 at private grass strip in North Texas KipAero's 1½ Strutter had its second test flight. This is a powered by one of our new production Gnome 100hp rotary engines. The Strutter is an authentic reproduction made and assembled by the crew at KipAero. The markings represent Strutter #9420 flown [...]
Over the last couple of months we have been working on something a little different. We have been working on the CAD design and manufacturing of reaction heating blocks for an innovative hand-held DNA testing instrument. The DNAiTECH, developed by Dr Murray Broom here in Marlborough will be used for teaching DNA, technology and [...]
