Martin LOVES that one!!! Ha ha!! How about this one? Steve

but where's the red?

I couldn't put red on this one or he might not be my friend anymore!! Ha ha!! Steve

put some on the inside, I won't tell...

Paint red streaks going down from the cockpit.

Here is the Morane Saulnier L I bought that someone else had started. The plans have Peter Rake, Kurt Bengtson, and Bengtson Company on them. I would guess it is a kit from Bengtson Aerodrome. It has a 35" span. It has been modified with ailerons.
The motor and gun are both printed paper glued on foam.
Decals are printed tissue paper.

I've got a few Aerodrome kits Degreen and I like them!! My little green 23"ws tripe is a Bengston kit. Steve

Does your Morane yaw really bad in turns? If you use a pull pull setup like I did you can try this. I cheated and glued a small balsa block under my ailerons to decrease the downward movement of them on my small tripe. Pretty much completely eliminated the yaw and made the plane much easier and better looking in turns. Just glue it to the wing itself so the aileron lays on it like a little shelf. If you have a conventional pushrod setup you'll have to put differential in your ailerons so they move up more than they move down. This can be done on a computer radio if you have one. If not you can move your servo horn on the servo farther "up" and re-adjust your pushrod linkage to get the same effect. Steve

I am just learning to fly with ailerons so I don't know if it yaws or not. I am too busy just keeping it in the air where I want it. LOL. The person that started the build set the ailerons up for a sevro in the middle of the wing and bell cranks at each aileron so that is what I am using. They are hinged at the top and have an open V. I could probably decrease downward movement by filling the V in some. My the elevator is pull pull and the rudder is fixed. The rudder pull pull is fixed solid in the fuselage. I did that so it will be easy to put in a rudder sevro if needed.

The balsa on my plane seems brittle. If you put preasure on a rib it will break off grain wise. I had to be real carefull finishing the plane. Sence the DR1 plans I have show all the ribs and formers I may just have to start cutting balsa again instead of going the easy route and making it out of foam. I think WW1 planes look good built out of balsa and later planes look better built out of foam. I also have a Fokker DVII I built back in the 70. I am thinking of using the wings(balsa silk covered) and make a new lighter fuselage for it. I scratch built it use plans I drew from 3view. The fuselage is strong enough to take a nitro and kind of heavy for electric.

Remember Degreen, balsa is strong for its weight! Any wood breaks easily grain wise. Go for the DVII sounds like a cool plane!! Steve

More progress on the DVa - someday soon I hope to hunting 'English gentlemen' on early patrols with my Jasta 28 colleagues. Top wing completed as well as cabane struts. I plan to go with the Axi 5345/18, 3800W, just to be on the safe side. Regards, Jordy

You need to cover it with clear, that is just too nice to hide under paint.
Don

I was looking at my ailerons and remember that when I installed them I set them both a little bit up when centered. I did this to see if it would act like wash out. I bet it acts like differential too cause the ailerons always have more up than down. I one thing I have found on all three of the planes that have ailerons(two I have crashed trying to learn to fly with ailerons, ones wing is still in a tree) they will go into a left bank and I can not get them to change back to level no mater how much I try so I will just bank more left and then I can bank right again.

part of that might be torque from the motor.

Hey jj, that is a fantastic job you have done there! Beautiful.:$

Bob

You are probably right, when it happens I could be going too slow and am about to stall. I have found that with the flat wings the planes go into a left diving spin on a full stall. I had to learn to dive to gain speed and not add power.

This all sounds very familiar to me from when I was learning to fly. I started out with a "3D Tiger moth" It was a piece a junk. It was NOT a GWS, but a copy. The motor was underpowered, plane was overweight, and it had 4 ailerons. Not a good combo for someone learning.

I had NO idea that with ailerons, you had to return the plane to level with oposite aileron input. I did eventually get it, about the same time the plane was so overweight from repairs, and had a serious radio range issue. (junky RTF radio). But I kept at it, and now I love ailerons. This was all last September. I guess I learned quick enough. I still fly a 350 Pico TigerMoth, (no ailerons), and love it, but completely enjoy the 4 chanel planes also.

I learned quickly that a slow flying plane without differential is a bad thing if no rudder input is given. I remember being completely baffled as to why the plane did such wierd stuff in the air, until I figured that out.

Thanks, Don and Bob and all...I originally thought I would build this as a static model, covering and sheeting one side only, leaving the open framework on the other half. But where to display it? I have a loft great room setup so I could hang it from the ceiling, but then who could see the detail? I also stumbled upon a video clip from a gentleman in Germany who was flying a Proctor Fokker DVII on electric power, and the die was cast, as they say.

That is great to hear. A beautiful plane like that "needs" to get out and play!;)

Bob

I agree!! Take lots of pictures and then fly the crap out of it!! Steve

I have been tempted, that if I was ever to build something good enough to show the interior, that I would cover half in the scale finish, and the other half in a clear covering.

My fiance works for a Boys and Girls club, and has mentioned that she would like me to come speak to the kids there about model aviation. Such a model would be perfect for educational purposes, and then to let them see it fly...

I think that would inspire many to fly RC themselves.

Just don't fly where my Camel can find it. I would hate to see bullet holes in it.

jjordison::your bout the best dang modeler I've ever seen,, I mean that, your bub, steve

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