Jackpot!
 

Boys, I hit the jackpot while I was surfing the net! :D Check out the website below. Most interesting and informative. Now you guys (and me too) have no excuse for not being accurate with the colors on your WWI planes! WWI Ace, this one is for you Pal! Martin

http://misterkitusa.com/9dfef5d6-cef...015385b-9.html

if id taken the pic with the ''normal'' workbench itd be hard to see the plane.

:D

Fokker C1 2 passenger 1919 version,
 

need 60" plans of Fokker D7, not necessarly scale, to modify to 60" CI, 1919 2 passenger version. my completed one was lost in Katrina. dick stamm

SCALEFLYER.

How have you made out with your Fokker D-V111.
I have ordered the 84" plans from MAN and am anxious to hear how other people have gone on with the E.V.

Could life FINALLY be given to this long thought dead project?
 

I know by now most of you have given up on me, but have no fear.... I have made some SERIOUS headway here the last few days, as I have had a break from the norm, and a chance to rest and get a 'little better'....

I should be posting some rather 'serious' pictures here in the next few days for your review and comments. And as always, ALL comments are welcome AND ENCOURAGED!

So, for now, since we are on the subject of German Colors (or Colours if you prefer.... :D ), here is my little wallpaper for either your desktop or homepage... I will also have an 'editable' version that I will post later on this week as well as kind of a 'Happy Turkey Day!' present! Not only editable in colors (sigh..., colours!), but also in size! PLUS, I also have 4 MORE patterns in the works that are also tileable for easy lozenge prints for your planes!

Enjoy and be sure and keep a watch here (or should I not highjack, and create a new thread? Either way is OK with me and I will COMPLETELY understand if I need to start a new thread!) and see what develops in the next 72 hours!

http://www.mocarz.com/rc-plane/lozzy...ight_small.jpg
click me for a full size image!

http://www.mocarz.com/rc-plane/lozzy...dark_small.jpg
click me for a full size image!

GOOD ONE CLAY. THX for the images. Glad you are feeling a "Little Better".

As far as I'm concerned you're a fellow WWI buff and you're welcome here anytime!! I keep checking your site once in a while to see how it's coming along. Glad to here you got some rest! It's easy to wear yourself completely out trying to deal with everything that comes up. Thanks for the pics. They are great!!! Steve.

Many thanks Steve and Paddy!! DEFINITELY mcuh appreciated!

Rest is DEFINITELY something I have been neglecting myself here lately, and with the next round of surgeries coming up (actually, mid-January), it something I need to do more of.

Now that I have time to though, I can FINALLY try and get these airplanes 'off the ground' (yeah, that one WAS intended! LOL!!)

Thanks for the hearty welcome back and glad to be BACK!

Take care all, and to all have a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON!!

~Clay Wood

RC aircraft
 

Clay, you have more than captured my attention with the scale RC WWI aircraft kits! I/we need more info!! I'm very interested in the N 17c. Don't leave us hanging!!! BTW, I noticed your verse at the bottom. Martin

I'm back. Hope everyone is having a great thanksgiving. My wife was hospitalized for four days with a fever of 104 and no diagnosed cuase as yet.

Here's my Oberusel motor build.

1. basic components: 2inch PVC pipe for crankcase, 1 3/4 inch PVC nipples for cylinders. I ground flats on the pipe at 40 degree separations
2. basic motor front view
3. basic motor rear view showing cut aways to clear battery pack
4. raw motor with components to build. Top to bottom: outer pushrod sleeve for exhaust pipes; 1/16 music wire for top half of plugs; copper stripped from wire for plug leads; 1/16 id aluminum tubing for bottom half of plugs, 1/8 dia plastic tubing o simulate actuator rod for valves. (Cylinder heads were made from balsa)
5. close up of unpainmted center cylinder
6/7 two views of painted motor
8 motor mounted by epoxying to back of cowl.

Now working on the Spandaus. I've given up finding an appropriate simulation of the perforated cooling jacket and intend to paint an aluminum tube gun metal and expose the aluminum to simulate holes.
Walt

Engine
 

Excellent job on the engine Walt! :D Sure gives me some ideas. :rolleyes: I hope to be starting my DVIII before too long. Will keep everyone posted. Martin

Dr. 1 update
 

Hi guys,
well I thought I had the Tripe ready to go and when I ran up the motor I got a bad vibration. Too tired to check it out last night. Today 2inches of snow )-:

I've started gathering wood for the Tripehound (where DID that name come from?) and I have found another unusual color scheme.

FYI Dan Brett has bought out the Willlims Bros. molds and is slowly ramping up production. It sounds like it is a "cotage" industry. He answered my e-mail within hours. You can go to the old Williams Bros Model Products web site or e-mail Dan at: [email protected] net.att. net

He is doing direct sales and accepts credit cards.
WT

Thanks Walt!! I was wondering if Williams would ever get up and running again. Steve

I discovered that motors vibrate a lot less if there is more than one screw in the four point motor mount )-:

Also, my Dr.1 is NOSE heavy by a lot. How did I manage that?
Walt

Yeah Walt. It also tends to keep the motor attached to the airframe during flight!!! Steve.

Balance it
 

Walt, just add some lead weight (alot?) to the tail .... works everytime :D :D Martin

Yep, lots of lead in the tail will permanently cure any and all faults on the first flight.

Donno what happened, I posted a reply and it didn;t whow up.

Youse guys are sooooo helpfu (-:
I moved the servos back and the battery pack behind the firewall. Balance looks good now. AUW is 7 3/4 which made me go back and look at the power numbers. turns out I'm bett off with an Astro 25 and superbox than with the 40G standard. Better climb and only sightly less top speed --- and climb is what the Dr.1 was all about.
Walt

PS WWI Ace are you going to cover that Cessna in a lozenge scheme? (-:

some more progress..starting to look the part now..

Tripe
 

Looking good Watt. :D Nice build job..... :) I still can't get over the size of the rudder..... :eek: seems overkill to me.... Martin

Yeah Walt. I think the lozenge pattern would look good on a Cessna. Might even put some crosses on the wings and fuse. Sad thing is that around here nobody would know it was incorrect!!! I'll probably put a single machine gun on the top wing too!!! Steve.

Gota be a Lewis!

The re-arranging on my Dr.1 resulted in a perfect 10 degrees nose down balance. Now if the weather will jsut warm up.
Walt

machine guns
 

just wing it
http://images.google.com/images?q=tb...2/TW002-05.jpg

This is the first I have heard of what you are doing! I would be ALL OVER a decent N17 kit like you are thinking of.

your plane is a beauty