Former Member Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 [This posting has been removed] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Salomon Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Ernie, Have you seen the FSM 'Eindekker Special' at all? I forget the date (it's at home and I'm at work!) but it carried Peter Rake's 60" version as a free plan. It had some 3-view drawings along with a couple of old pics.Naturally I wouldn't dare suggest breaking copyright and scanning it to send you a copy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 Hi Chris, Thanks for that, It might just be very useful. I would greatly appreciate it you would not send me a copy to the email address in my profileThanks ernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Salomon Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 No worries Ernie, I won't send it in the next couple of days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Thanks for not doing thaternie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 Good morning Chris, from a freezing France, I've had a quick look at the fokker stuff that you didn't send. Looks fantastic. I'll get back when I've fully savoured it thanks Ernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 Great stuff Chris.I've already got some of the pix, but not the 3 view, which is oh so useful..The forum is wonderful for this sort of thing..Thanks againernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Salomon Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 All we need now is a working wing-warpng system. I thought about it for a while after seeing the detail of the full size system but then wimped out and stuck in the dihedral! (mine is the 80" Rake design). How nice it would be to have lovely level wings! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 Hi Chris, I'm building the Proctor kit, complete with a warping system..It follows the full size system, with a powerful servo under the pilots seat..The wings are nearly complete, they are very delicate, with a scale section, with light, bendy ribs..I'm most concerned about the fabric (probably solartex) wrinkling, Of course maybe the young Fokker had the same problem. I'll let you know how it goes in a few monthsernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Salomon Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 I didn't realise any commercial product had tackled the warping thing, I do hate putting dihedral on something that didn't have it originally, spoils the whole thing, still, in the Rake concept, it is only sport scale and much simplified.Btw, I meant to say 60" not 80".I don't know what the answer is to the fabric problem, if you need a tex finish your options are limited, on the positive side though, it will only be wrinkled when torsion is applied (ie. in the air) so you won't see it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aslan Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 www.cockpitinstrumente.de is worth a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 Hi Aslan, wow that's a great website...I'll have a proper look later Thanks ernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Dahlhausen Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I have this image of an eindecker cockpit: Edited By Pete B - Moderator on 04/03/2014 19:20:37 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 Hi Kevin, wow, thats an old thread. Thanks.........unfortunately, I can't get the image to open ernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceejay Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Hi we have a member (Dawn Patrol) who has just completed 3 E111 Eindekkers at our 1/3 scale, all of which are fully scale in the wing warping, i will ask him to post some pics and info. chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceejay Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 in fact if you go here **LINK** you can see the maiden flight of the third and final one, he is the squadron leader of our German contingent, chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 Hi Ceejay, that would be most useful. I'd really like to get it right. Do you know what he covered the wings with? There isn't much movement with solartex. It doesn't flex very much ernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete B Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Posted by Kevin Dahlhausen on 04/03/2014 02:46:53: I have this image of an eindecker cockpit: I'll repost this pic from Kevin in case you miss it - we had a bit of trouble getting it on the forum earlier today. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Olsen 1 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Didn't a lot of the early German planes use an external ASI? Quite often mounted on a strut on the biplanes. I don't know if an Eindecker would have used one or not. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted March 5, 2014 Author Share Posted March 5, 2014 Thanks guys for rejuvenating this. I'm not really happy with what I've already got. When I get a minute, I'll prepare a couple of drawings based on the above info ernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Dahlhausen Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Ernie, sounds good. I figured that someone would come looking for the info, even if it were not hte orginal author. Cross and Cockade Vol 5 #1 has some nice 3 views of the E.iii. http://www.crossandcockade.com/store/Product.asp?cat=12&id=40#sthash.ArBU1vAG.dpbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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