Warbird Information Exchange

Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:57 pm**

Anyone know what model this is?

Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:07 pm**

Ryan SC-W

SC = Sport Cabin, W = Warner power (there was an SC-M / Menasco
powered version as well).

Bela P. Havasreti

Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:23 pm**

snj-5 wrote:Ryan SC-W

SC = Sport Cabin, W = Warner power (there was an SC-M / Menasco
powered version as well).

Bela P. Havasreti

Thanks for the speedy reply!

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:01 pm**

There is a web site for this airplane:

http://www.russellw.com/planes/ryan/default.htm

There are lots of pictures of the making of the cowling.

Matt

Posted: **Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:37 am**

A difficult airplane to build, it used 'nested tooling' and every hole was drilled in every part before any assembly started, I think one is used in that awful Robert Stack/Dorthy Malone movie about air racing made in the early 50's

Posted: **Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:37 pm**

I don't remember seeing one in the movie you referred to (The Tarnished Angels, 1958) but they were used as Japanese fighters in Wake Island (1942).

Posted: **Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:02 am**

Still working on it but I started a web page for the Ryan SC...

http://www.flytoanothertime.com/ryansc/ryanscindex.html

More work to be done on it but at least you get an idea of the survivors.