America Begins Testing 2007

[OBProject]

chiala pence que iba a despegar!

[dtuer]

Never made it into the air?

[angelica14709]

America begins testing using secondary OX-5 engines, their OX-6 were not completed at time of these trials. The secondary engines did not provide enough power to get airborn. Maiden flight will be in the summer of 2008.

[renegadeoflife87]

Yeah. Because the engines operate in opposite rotations, one of the OX-6 engines required a replacement camshaft in order to make it run reversed for this craft. But at the time this was filmed, the necessary camshaft for the second OX-6 the museum had was incomplete leaving the engine unusable. As a result they experimentally fitted the smaller (~50HP less if I remember right) OX-5 engines, which proved to be too small.

I remember seeing this, we were on sure unsure if it would lift or not.

[renegadeoflife87]

Yeah. Because the engines operate in opposite rotations, one of the OX-6 engines required a replacement camshaft in order to make it run reversed for this craft. But at the time this was filmed, the necessary camshaft for the second OX-6 the museum had was incomplete leaving the engine unusable. As a result they experimentally fitted the smaller (~50HP less if I remember right) OX-5 engines, which proved to be too small.

I remember seeing this, we were on shore unsure if it would lift or not.

[angelica14709]

See the 2008 video where it flies very nicely with the right engines.

[Dusan45]

great achievement, I would like to be present to the plane's maiden flight

[crholder13]

awesome!