Early Aces Pack

[hotwax]

Early Aces Package

I was wondering, if it was possible honoring the first aces of the Great War in building their planes.
This could be the Fokker E-III, Nieuport 11 and D.H. 2.
The Fokker looked easy, the Nieuport 11 more demanding and the D.H. 2 quite challenging.

I liked to get them in the 2826 1200 KV 3 Cell 1300 mAh class, simple T9g servos 4 channel radio. If all works well, I will draw the plans and show the build.

First I browsed the plans at outerzone.co.uk to get an idea of the proportions and here I can present the first of the three, the Fokker E-III or the FB Eindecker:



This picture was made after an uneventful first flight. Some decoration is still missing. Weight is 730 gr. The wheels should be 70 mm instead of 50 mm, but I could only find expencive Williams wheels in 70 mm. The landing gear is a really complicated bend, but works surprisingly fine. Maybee I find a simple solution. Gun and siluette pilot will be added soon.



My foamboard is a bit heavier as Fitetestfoam. To counter this, I used this heavier motor, which works fine with a 9 x 3.8 prop.

More to come

 

[Foam Addict]

Well done! That looks excellent!

 

[Spastickitten]

Do you get any noise from that cowling being so close to the motor?

 

[hotwax]

Do you get any noise from that cowling being so close to the motor?

The prop is turning 7 mm ahead of the cowling. The motor is only 1100 KV and runs with that slowfly prop very silently.

 

[hotwax]

The first of the three is now finished.



You can choose, whether Immelmann or Boelke is sitting behind the controls, aiming over the single Spandau MG.



Now to French ....

 

[ClearSkiesCalmWinds]

Great Stuff. Love to see it fly.

 

[SP0NZ]

Nice work Werner! That looks fantastic.

 

[Michael9865]

Looks awesome.

 

[hotwax]

FB Baby

The next plane is now waiting for testflight. It resembles a Nieuport 11. If it flys well, I will do it in early Italian markings, very colorful and no roundels.



Weight is 736 gr and the CG looks promising.



I hope it stops raining at the weekend

 

[SP0NZ]

The next plane is now waiting for testflight. It resembles a Nieuport 11. If it flys well, I will do it in early Italian markings, very colorful and no roundels.

Wow! Love the Nieuport. Great work capturing the look. I'd say you nailed it.

 

[mrwhiskers]

what material did you use for your struts? I'm designing a dtfb Fokker Dvll of similar size and i don't know how to do the struts

 

[hotwax]

what material did you use for your struts? I'm designing a dtfb Fokker Dvll of similar size and i don't know how to do the struts

I used 5 mm bamboo barbeque skewers. Looking to the wings now, 4 mm could be sufficient.



Pushing them through is really wired.

 

[AkimboGlueGuns]

Will you be doing plans for all of these? I'd love to build that neuiport.

 

[hotwax]

Will you be doing plans for all of these? I'd love to build that neuiport.

The answer is: If it flys well, yes.

The design process is: plan, sketch, build, fly, improve, draw, review, publish

My holidays end to today, so the it will last longer from now on.

Todays planning is: fly

 

[mrwhiskers]

if you accept suggestions, i have one. a very uncommon ww1 plane called the Caudron G.3. This plane could be made with a dtfb fuselage nacelle and you could use balsa stock or dowels to make the tail booms.

 

[hotwax]

Sorry Mrwhiskers,

if you find the name of a pilot who became an ace in this machine, I promise I will do one.

Let me fly the De Havilland D.H. 2 first. This is already a nightmare of struts.

BTW here is a video of the FB Eindecker flying:

And the FB Baby had it's successful maiden flight

Thank's for whatching

 

[gabrielete]

Very nice builds.I can't wait to see that Neuport painted!

 

[hotwax]

Proudly present: FB Baby in Italian colours.





And now to the real challenge: D.H. 2

 

[mrwhiskers]

that nieuport looks amazing. i might just have to build me one of those

 

[hotwax]

FB Baby in flight

At first I had my trimms wrong but sorted it out soon. As you can see, the FB Baby is not very floaty.