Epps 1907 monoplane at NBAA 2007

According to the NBAA website, there will be a reproduction Epps 1907
monoplane hanging in the enterance hall of the Georgia World Congress
Center for the NBAA 2007. In fact, it should be there right now.

Anyone going to, or at, NBAA 2007 in Atlanta? Anyone near Atlanta?
Can you get me a photo or better yet, some details of who built it and
possibly contact info if thats available? I've already emailed the
contact person at Epps aviation.

Those of you who know me already know that I've discussed this
aircraft several times on this group and have photos of it on my
walls. Its been on my build-list for 12 years. I'd fly out to Atlanta
myself just to see it, but I've got work obligations keeping me in
CO.

Any help and/or info will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Harry Frey
Wright Brothers Enterprises

wright1902glider wrote in
ps.com:

According to the NBAA website, there will be a reproduction Epps 1907
monoplane hanging in the enterance hall of the Georgia World Congress
Center for the NBAA 2007. In fact, it should be there right now.

Anyone going to, or at, NBAA 2007 in Atlanta? Anyone near Atlanta?
Can you get me a photo or better yet, some details of who built it and
possibly contact info if thats available? I've already emailed the
contact person at Epps aviation.

Those of you who know me already know that I've discussed this
aircraft several times on this group and have photos of it on my
walls. Its been on my build-list for 12 years. I'd fly out to Atlanta
myself just to see it, but I've got work obligations keeping me in
CO.

Any help and/or info will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Harry Frey
Wright Brothers Enterprises


I was quite interested in his liegth biplane of the early thirties and did
some research on it with a view to maybe building it and so came across a
good bit of material on the 07 airpane as a result. I sem to recall seeing
a site that was dedicated to it's construction and I think it was Geroge
Epps' grandson building or masterminding the replica.

I didn't save anything but I'll have a look.

Bertie

wright1902glider wrote in
ps.com:

According to the NBAA website, there will be a reproduction Epps 1907
monoplane hanging in the enterance hall of the Georgia World Congress
Center for the NBAA 2007. In fact, it should be there right now.

Anyone going to, or at, NBAA 2007 in Atlanta? Anyone near Atlanta?
Can you get me a photo or better yet, some details of who built it and
possibly contact info if thats available? I've already emailed the
contact person at Epps aviation.

Those of you who know me already know that I've discussed this
aircraft several times on this group and have photos of it on my
walls. Its been on my build-list for 12 years. I'd fly out to Atlanta
myself just to see it, but I've got work obligations keeping me in
CO.

Any help and/or info will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Harry Frey
Wright Brothers Enterprises





No, I found the reference to the airplane I had seen and t's his 1912
airplane which you've surely seen .
And of course it's Ben Epps.


Bertie

On Sep 27, 8:01 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

I was quite interested in his liegth biplane of the early thirties and did
some research on it with a view to maybe building it and so came across a
good bit of material on the 07 airpane as a result.



That was probably David Hill's website. He did quite a bit of research
into the 1924 light monoplane a few years back, including locating a
possible original engine for it. But I never did hear that he had
started construction.

One of the interesting things about the 1907 monoplane is that its V-
twin Anzani engine did survive. In 2003, Pat Epps gave me a
documentary video about his father that was produced by UGA around
2000. At that time, Pat's older brother Ben Jr. still had the engine
in his workshop and dug it out for the video. Ben Jr. has since passed
away, and in 2005, I moved to Colorado. But I'm sure that the engine
is still in the Epps family somewhere. It would be very interesting to
see it in an airframe again. It would be even better to see it driving
a propeller.

Harry

The reproduction 1912 machine was built by Ben Jr. I think in the 70's
and was flown on several occasions before being donated to the Museum
of Aviation at Warner-Robbins, GA. I have seen it and its a very nice
reproduction.

Harry

wright1902glider wrote in
ups.com:

The reproduction 1912 machine was built by Ben Jr. I think in the 70's
and was flown on several occasions before being donated to the Museum
of Aviation at Warner-Robbins, GA. I have seen it and its a very nice
reproduction.

Harry




Brilliant. I'd loved to have seen it fly!
Yoj don't have any info on the last biplane by any chance, do you? I have a
couple of pics of it as well as the drawings from PA, but that's all I
have. I briefly considered building one but decided I didn't know enough
about building to go on the very sketchy info I had.

Bertie

On Sep 27, 8:49 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Yoj don't have any info on the last biplane by any chance, do you?



The only two things I know about it are that it was built in 1930, and
that Ben Epps, Sr. was killed in it in 1934. Reports are that it had
an engine failure on takeoff and crash-landed. David Hill would
probably know more about it. You'll find his website on Google.

Harry

On Sep 27, 11:51 am, wright1902glider
wrote:

The only two things I know about it are that it was built in 1930, and
that Ben Epps, Sr. was killed in it in 1934.


Further investigation shows that those dates are inaccurate. Contact
David Hill and/or Google it for better info.

I FOUND A PHOTO OF THE REPLICA AT NBAA!
Its not a good photo, but you can make out a few details. The photo is
in the "Convention Floor" folder, image #1.
http://web.nbaa.org/public/cs/amc/20...ry/tuesday.php

Harry

wright1902glider wrote in
oups.com:

On Sep 27, 8:49 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Yoj don't have any info on the last biplane by any chance, do you?



The only two things I know about it are that it was built in 1930, and
that Ben Epps, Sr. was killed in it in 1934. Reports are that it had
an engine failure on takeoff and crash-landed. David Hill would
probably know more about it. You'll find his website on Google.



OK, thanks. I'll do that.


Bertie

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:41:18 -0700, wright1902glider
wrote:

According to the NBAA website, there will be a reproduction Epps 1907
monoplane hanging in the enterance hall of the Georgia World Congress
Center for the NBAA 2007. In fact, it should be there right now.

Anyone going to, or at, NBAA 2007 in Atlanta? Anyone near Atlanta?
Can you get me a photo or better yet, some details of who built it and
possibly contact info if thats available? I've already emailed the
contact person at Epps aviation.

Those of you who know me already know that I've discussed this
aircraft several times on this group and have photos of it on my
walls. Its been on my build-list for 12 years. I'd fly out to Atlanta
myself just to see it, but I've got work obligations keeping me in
CO.

Any help and/or info will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Harry Frey
Wright Brothers Enterprises

My friend, Ford Martyn, who has since passed away built a replica of a
Ben Epps designed bi-plane. This was in the early 1970's.

In the summer of 2005 my wife and I were traveling out west after
Oshkosh and in the lobby of the Hampton Inn in Cheyenne Wyoming I
overheard the gentleman next to me say that his name was Epps.

Just as a lark I asked if he was related to the Epps family of
Georgia. He ask how I knew of his family and I told him about my
friend and the bi-plane. With a dead serious expression he told me
that his Grand-dad was Ben Epps and that his dad had traveled up to
Connecticut to see the plane my friend had built.

Talk about amazing. One fellow from CT and another from GA in a hotel
lobby in WY who had an aviation connection.

Errol Groff
EAA 60159