Livery for the Restauravia STAMPE SV.4 v1.0
This is a livery for the STAMPE SV.4 v1.0 (Maître d’oeuvre : André Chancel) - downloadable at Restauravia
The livery is based on the usual paint scheme of the SV-4 with C/N 1183 V-41 OO-LUK when the aircraft was used as a trainer in the Belgian Airforce.
Date In : Oct 1952
Date Out : Mar 1971
Actual stored at Koksijde.
The SV-4 is a single-engine two-seat touring and training double-decker aircraft, manufactured by the Belgian manufacturer Stampe & Vertongen. The Stampe SV.4 was used by the Belgian Air Force and the French Air Force as a training aircraft. It is often only called the Stampe.
After a test and evaluation study for which two De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 aircraft were also acquired, the Belgian Government finally decided in the Spring of 1947 to buy 33 Gipsy Major powered Stampe Vertongen SV-4B trainers for the Belgian Air Force initial pilot instruction. This initial batch of aircraft was delivered to Schaffen-Diest airfield between June and December 1948. A second order for 12 Cirrus powered SV-4B's followed in 1952 and a third batch of again 12 Cirrus Stampes in 1953. These last aircraft were the first to adopt the overall orange color so familiar for this all Belgian designed. Previously the Stampes were painted in an aluminum color scheme sporting yellow training stripes over the wings and fuselage. Finally a last batch of 8 Gipsy Major powered SV's was acquired in 1954. The Stampe which by now was based at Goetsenhoven airfield near Tienen was appreciated for its stability and maneuverability and was used by the "Manchots" (penguins) stunt team established in 1965 and well known for their trademark mirror formations. The very last Stampes were used by the Belgian Air Force as glider tugs on behalf of the Belgian Air Cadet but by 1975 these nimble Belgian biplanes finally had to bow out of the military service, V-52 remaining in flying condition until the end of March 1978 for airshow presentations. As a testimony to this robust and clever design it can be said that almost half the Belgian Military SV-4B production survives to this day, the majority of which in flying condition.
(Source: https://www.belgian-wings.be/stampe)
Stampe-Vertongen museum - Antwerp (Deurne) Airport: https://www.stampe.be/en-gb/verzameling
Installation :
- unzip the livery-sv4b-ooluk.zip file
- put the folder "livery-sv4b-ooluk" in your community folder
This is a minor update :
- the flag painting on one side of the rudder was wrong.
When painting the flag on the side of an airplane, you would consider the front of the plane to be equivalent to a flag pole from which the flag is flying. This means that on one side of the fuselage, you’ll see the flag with its usual orientation (black, yellow and red from left to right), while on the other side it is reversed (red, yellow and black from left to right). This is done to give the effect of the flag flying in the breeze as the airplane moves forward.
Installation :
- remove the folder of the previous version from your community folder
- unzip the livery-sv4b-ooluk.zip file
- put the folder "livery-sv4b-ooluk" in your community folder