With only 2 weeks to go until Oshkosh 2019, we have been reminiscing on our time there last year. Here is a short video of Tony and Kip from KipAero running our Gnome engine on the test stand. We will be doing daily engine runs again this year in the Vintage Circle at the [...]
Yealands Classic Fighters is done and dusted for another year and what a great show it was. For all of us here at CAMS it was such a thrill to see the Pup flying in the show with one of our engines. She sounded great along side the BE2 and Bristol Scout that came [...]
We are excited to have one of our 100hp Gnome engines being fitted to a locally based Sopwith Pup that will be displaying at Yealand Classic Fighters being held over Easter Weekend here at Omaka Airfield. As part of this process we have taken the 80hp LeRhone Rotary engine off the airframe, and we [...]
The original P40 Hydraulic Hand Pump barrels were cast in steel. CAMS intended replicating the casting but when the cast units did not arrive on schedule, in order to meet delivery times CAMS decided to machine them, absorbing the additional cost. The machined barrels were bead blasted than cadmium plated. The [...]
When parts are fitted, classic or modern, they arrive from the manufacturer set out with pilot holes. When the new part is fitted into the receiving part the final rivet holes are drilled out using a hand held drill. While the final hole should exactly follow the pilot hole, for various reasons that is not [...]
We have been reverse engineering and remanufacturing hard or impossible to get aircraft parts for many years. We have previously made Gnome cylinders too and we reverse engineered the RAF-1A V8 motor - so we had no concerns about our technical capabilities. But there’s a difference between making one-offs and a production run. We [...]
