I had the great pleasure of meeting Bob and getting to see his planes when I went to Kelowna, BC to take in their Spring Fun Fly at the Kelowna Ogopogo Radio Club. Bob’s 27% Gee Bee Model Y Senior Sportster was one of several planes he brought to the event and they all started and flew perfectly.
This is one of Bob’s flights playing in the wind.
Pilot/Owner: Bob Scheer
Kamloops Model Aeroplane Society
Kamloops BC Canada
27% scale at 96 inches
Flying weight 18 lbs.
Powered by CCRS twin 55cc engine electronic ignition
Propeller 20 x 6-10 wood prop
Unlimited vertical performance
1st generation model Y Senior Sportster from Pacific Aeromodel Inc.
The Gee Bee Model Y Senior Sportster was a sports aircraft built in the United States in the early 1930s by the Granville Brothers. Essentially an enlarged two-seat version of the single-seat Sportster, it was a low-wing strut-and-wire-braced monoplane of conventional -- if short-coupled -- design with open cockpits and fixed tailskid undercarriage.
It was flown by Florence Klingensmith at the 1933 Chicago International Races, where she won second place in the Women's Free-For-All and was killed in it while contesting the Phillips Trophy.
Specifications:
• Crew: One pilot
• Capacity: 1 passenger
• Length: 21 ft. 0 in (6.40 m)
• Wingspan: 30 ft. 0 in (9.14 m)
• Height: 7 ft. 5 in (2.25 m)
• Power plant: 1 × Lycoming R-680, 215 hp (160 kW)
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