Plane looks great! Wow, hard to believe it's the same one, or that it's been crashed! Good job.

Jenny
 

Very nice job on the rebuild and the rigging Degreene! :) Hard to believe it's a model! Boy is this a great hobby or what? :eek::D:D BTW, where is your coat of arms??? :D Martin

Did not want a bullseye on it. LOL

btw Degreen, LOVE the pull pull setup! So cool looking.

I added cockpit coaming AND a small audio system that reproduces the W1 radial engine sound. I can control on and off from my radio. Neat for "strafing" runs

Steve,
Are you doing well?.....Haven't seen you around for a few days....Hope you are doing well after the crazy weather came through your state!

Chris.

"Dharler"...."I added cockpit coaming AND a small audio system that reproduces the W1 radial engine sound" Would you mind sharing what sound system; costs; availability, etc. ? thanks Rich

Saved this Neiuport 17 from a death of gas
 

My friend had been flying this 1/4 scale Balsa USA kit for awhile but grew tired of it. I was able to pick it up from him and converted it to electric power with an AXI 5330/24 on 10 cells, Over powered but needed the weight. It swings a 22/12 prop and I can fly her 4 times on one charge. Each flight can be about 6 mins. 8000 mah lipolys are great for the weigh needed for the balance. I'll see if I can stick a clip of it on here for you guys. Oh, and a shot of the Fokker D7 that is about 90 percent done.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgpmq0y_iDk[/media]

blade, that first photo with the sun coming thru is amazing! Very nice planes.

Cool, glad you noticed it. We get to the field before the sun comes up so often times I like to take a sunrise shot or two, was sorta blurry though,but Thanks,,,
blade

Welcome!
 

Welcome blade to the best thread on Wattflyer (at least I think so)! :D I'm thrilled to see you are building and flying WWI birds. :cool: The Guys here are top notch and just love to see what's new with WWI planes. Keep us informed on the DVII build. I hope you get to know us better.:) Martin

Hey Thanks Martin for the kind words.
blade

but, this is Wattflyer...

I just remembered the old Fokker DR1 I have stashed you might like to see
 

This old Balsa USA Fokker DR1 is still around and in flying condition. I want to install a larger AXI in her. When I first flew this Fokker DR1 I had a AXI 4130 geared 2 to 1 on 30 nmh cells,boy that was the old days. If I put a 5330/24 on 10 cells I will need a bunch of weight up front but it will fly much better. The old motor set up flew it way to close to scale, I like a little extra in reserve if ya know what I mean. I forgot about thes other WW1 planes.
blade

My Bad!
 

Ooops my Bad! :o I meant Watt Flyer. Sorry Boys.... Martin

Very very nice blade! I especially love tripes and Albatros'. I'm guessing they fly great. I have a set of plans for the DVa (WE Technical plans with an 89"WS) and a set of plans (ala Nick Zoroli) of the 1/4 scale DRI. Also a friend of mine gave me a previously flown (and dorked) 1/4 scale Zoroli DRI which I will someday repair and finish. BTW Guys, please remember to be a friend to all of our fellow WWI enthusiasts. Click on the friends icon under the name and add/bring another WWI Brother to your friends list and into the WWI era fold. Martin

That reminds me.....Friends don't let friends fly mono-wing planes....:Q

Oh come on, I've never flown anything without 2 wings, but I'd sure like to build a DVIII one of these days! Are they "not allowed"? ;)

The D-VIII better NOT be disallowed. I have 2 sets of control line plans, 5 sets of RC plans, and at least 6 sets of FF plans for that plane, along with 2 FF kits.

There are usually exceptions to rules....:)

I thought for sure Marty would have said something by now.

speaking of D-VIII
 

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Busa Fokker D-VIII

Wings
 

1, 2 or 3 sets of wings qualifies (as long as it's a WWI plane). :D ESPECIALLY the DVIII!! :D:D Put that in your pipe and smoke it Boys!!!!! :eek::D The Great Poomba has spoken. Martin

I knew Marty would express his great love for the DVIII......LOL

Technically the D.VIII/E.V is a Biplane...don't forget that little wing between the wheels!

I would still like to see a 36" Taube. The only kits I know of are by Balsa USA, and they are quite large...83 1/2" and 62".

Actually, if you count that little wing, the D-VIII is a Sesquiplane. That is, a plane in which the lower wing is of smaller chord and/or span than the upper wing, like the Nieuport 17.

Here is my mono-wing plane. First WW1 plane to have a machine gun mounted and fireing through the prop,

Nice planes Im into ww1 planes too I would like to build a Hannley page bomber or any outher ww1 bomber ,but I cant find any kits of them. atleast in a small scale. pictured is one of my planes. I make the motors to rotate with the prop by incorperating a bearing on the fire wall and a copper tube through the plastic motor bolting the assembly together.Of course its just a static plane after this is done.

Take a look at my MS-L in my previous post. The motor is foam cyclinders wrapped with printed paper and glued to the bell of the brushless motor. It spins when the plane is flying.

Nice job
 

I been thinking about that idea for while. If somone would invent a detailed motor cylinder set that would fit a outrunner motor. That would be cool. Did you have any vibration problems when you did yours? What type of glue holds it on?
pics of my cubs I want to sell my giant one,I should have stayed small
Im going to do a pick up add soon in NJ saito golden 72 size 84" wing all for 375

here's a pic of my Bristol Scout soon to be an electric convert.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46...0890Medium.jpg

Nice plane! Will be cool to see some cockpit details in that one. You large plane guys have it easy, the weight gane is so negligible compared to the little ones.

right now there is no cockpit detail.
it needs to be totally recovered, since i'm going electric i'd like to lose some poundage ;)

mrkil:: Pull-Pull Elevators!!( or duel'in servos) WhOO! I Like it, Looks like a acre of cover'in HaHaaa! good luck and keep the pixs come'in! your bub,steve

yes it pull pull elevators

in fact it's pull pull everything!

it will be a fairly lengthy recover job. but i'll be using iron on cloth instead of dope.

similar paint scheme but more correct.

mrkil:::Cover'in easy it's the tear-down---build back part that takes FOREVER!!!I gotta try some pull-pullers one of these days, so much lighter than dowels, your bub, steve

you've got that right.

i have the lower wing stripped now and am ca'ing all the joints and making sure everything is solid before recovering.

it will be the spring before i'm done for sure

Sounds like the old days!! bub, steve

I did not have any vibration problems using foam and paper. I used Loctite NO MESS Adhesive. Here is a URL for paper motors. I enlarged one motor till the ring the the cyclinders fit on just fit the bell of my brushless motor.


http://www.sero-papermodels.com/content.do?page=page.2_download2

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