Over the weekend local pilot Wayne Tantrum took the Omaka based Sopwith Pup out for a fly. This Pup is fitted with our Gnome Rotary Engine. He was joined for some of the flight by two other locally based planes. Due to the Pup being much faster, he spent a lot of the time [...]
Fairchild F45 Wing Attach Fittings
We had some centre section wing attach fittings, brought in for a Fairchild F45 that is being restored here at Omaka by Jem Aviation. Corrosion was cleaned up on some of the original fittings but we needed to remanufacture some new fittings. These were then matched drill as per the original fittings. They are making great work [...]
Classic Fighters 19
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 [...]
Gnome Rotary to fly at Yealands Classic Fighters
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 [...]
P40 Undercarriage Hydraulic Hand Pump
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 [...]
RAF1 Engine
The Royal Aircraft Factory Farnborough developed the RAF 1A based on the 70 HP Renault Aero engine. Approximately 2800 RAF 1A's were manufactured by 6 different manufacturers. No operational RAF 1A engines remain. The engine is rated at 90 HP at 1600 RPM and short bursts of 100 HP at 1800 RPM (getaway mode). [...]
Remanufacturing the 9 cylinder Gnome Rotary Aero Engine
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 [...]