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Westbrook W-5 / W-5-B Sportster

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Westbrook W-5 NC966V

Designed by Neil Perdew, the 1931 Westbrook W-5 (ATC 2-444) was powered by a 90hp ACE Cirrus Mk III engine. The ATC were issued in 1933.

Westbrook Sportster

The W-5-B Sportster had an 85hp British Cirrus (2-455). Folding all-wood wings and selling for $2,650.

Westbrook Sportster

About five were built, and several partly constructed before the business failed in 1931.
NC9N c/n 501 destroyed in a 1931 crash
N853W c/n 502
NC966V c/n 503 lost in a 1938 accident
NC92V c/n 504
possibly c/n 505 unlicensed one

The design was planned for revival in 1939 as the Allied H-28 Sport Trainer, but apparently no planes were built.

W-5
Engine: 90hp ACE Cirrus Mk III
Wingspan: 32’0″
Length: 23’6″
Useful load: 500 lb
Max speed: 125 mph
Cruise speed: 100 mph
Stall: 40 mph
Range: 400 mi
Seats: 2

W-5-B Sportster
Engine: 85hp British Cirrus
Seats: 2

WAACO Staggerbipe

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Reverse Stagger winged biplane, single seater, VW powered, 145 kg empty, stressed to +9, — 6 G’s. For possible restricted aerobatics. Three axis controls via full span ailerons, large rudder and elevator. Taildrag¬ger configuration. Fully enclosed cockpit can be made semi-open by removing both doors. Fuselage is constructed with square hollow aluminium tubing, riveted, epoxied, and co¬vered with ceconite. A 2 stroke engine option is available.

Courtesy Brian Creek

Max Kremke displayed the Staggerbipe, unfinished at Mangalore in 1984. Max originally had it on a composite landing gear spring that proved too soft and it was after that he substituted the CRMO gear legs.

It was finished and painted, blue with red and white accents, but possibly never flown but it appeared capable of flight. It had instruments fitted.

Courtesy Brian Creek

Circa 2018 LAME Brian Creek picked it up because of an interest in early aero engines. Installed was a Continental A40 engine, and the cowls suited the A40 – no sign of a VW installed ever. He did discover that the aircraft was first registered in 3/04/1988 and de-registered 22/04/2009. It appears to have never flown.

Engine: VW 1300, 42 hp
Prop: 135cm x 84cm pitch
Wingspan: 6.1m top, 5.5 m lower
Length: 4.4m
Fuel capacity: 31 lt
Weight: 150 kg
Cruise speed: 65-70 kt
Stall: 28 kt

Weser

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Weser Flugzeugbau Ag.
Finanz-und-Wervaltungs GmbH

Formed, as Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH, aviation department of Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau “Weser” AG. in 1934. Took over Rohrbach Metallflugzeugbau GmbH. Undertook contract manufacture during First World War for other manufacturers. Reconstituted in 1956 as the Finanz-und-Wervaltungs GmbH, reverting to Weser Flugzeugbau 1959. The company then built the Nord Noratlas under license from 1960, with Hamburger Flugzeugbau and Siebelwerke-ATG, under the name of Flugzeugbau Nord GmbH at Hamburg. In 1958, with Hamburger, Nord Aviation, and Dipl. Ing. Prof Walter Blume Leichtbau-und-Flugtechnik, it formed Arbeitsgemeinschaft Transall. Finally the company combined with Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau in 1963, losing its individual identity entirely.