Allied Planes Of WWI

• May 16, 2004

• #21

kiwimac

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WOW! Those paper planes are AMAZING!

Kiwimac

 

• May 16, 2004

• #22

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Many thanks.
I've been up and running just over a year so far.
There are Mosltly WW1, but I do have a couple of WW2 subjects and one Luft'46 aircraft. There are some freebies on the site that anyone can download. These include an A36 Apache and a Swordfish.

TTFN,

Marcus

 

• May 16, 2004

• #23

Crazy

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Welcome to the site! Your site looks good 8)

 

• May 18, 2004

• #24

cheddar cheese

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yeah its great 8)

 

• May 18, 2004

• #25

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Many thanks for the compliments.
Out of interest, how many of you guys are model builders as well as plane buffs?

 

• May 23, 2004

• #26

the lancaster kicks ass

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i make plastic model kits, but not ones like you do............

 

• May 23, 2004

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I've made quite a few WW2 stuff. I scratch built a Mistel 1 a few ywars back.
I started model making when I was five, with a kit bought for me by my Uncle. I have built my fair share of Spitfires Mustangs and Me109's. Many of them were hurridly stuck together in an afternoon and test flown on Mum's clothes line that evening.
I got into paper models after a house move and my Wife's prohibition on any more plastic kits. I got interested in the WW1 stuff all over againafter visiting the Shoreham airshow with my dad about 5 years ago and I've got the bug for string and canvass.
TTFN,

Marcus

 

• May 24, 2004

• #28

kiwimac

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Trying to discover ways of virtual modelling but as I know nothing about it no-one I ask is helpful I'm at a bit of a dead-end currently.

Kiwimac

 

• May 24, 2004

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There are several 3d programs that you can use for 3d virtual model making.
Rhino 3d (expensive), Pepuraka(Japenese), Metasequoia (shareware) and a few others.
Metasequoia is avaiable from http://www21.ocn.ne.jp/~mizno/main_e.html
and there are tutorials available at http://trlibrary.tripod.com/id49.htm
There is also an English translation of the manual. Well - most of it at: http://www.spies.com/~palevich/3d/metasequoia/
I hope that's helpful.

TTFN<

Marcus

 

• Oct 20, 2004

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Hi!
Some data about first serial heavy bomber IM:
Name: ILYA Muromec
name after ILYA Muromec , ancient hero.
Country: Russian Empire.

First sample: oct. 1913.
load: 1290 kg

Model:Series B (1914)
Maximum range: 650 verst :: 692.9 km
Power Plant: 4x140hp "Argus"
Wings Square: 152,6 m2
Test flights (one of a pilots is Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky(!))
Production: 6

Model:Series V (light) (1914-15)
Power Plant: 4x150hp RB3-6 , or 2x140hp+2x125hp Argus
Production: 22
Empty Weight: ~3000 kg
Max bomb load: ~500kg small bombs (one 410kg experiments)

Model:Series G(1915-18)
Max height: 5200m (oxygen limit) with 1340kg load.
Speed: 137 km/h with 1900kg load.

Model:Series E(1916-17)
Power Plant: 4x220hp Renault
Empty Weight: 4960 kg
Bomb load: 800 kg
Defensive weapons: 8 machine-gun: 2x "Vikkers" with 1200-1500 ammo, 3x "Luis" w/ 940-1700ammo, 3x "Madsen" w/ 750-1000ammo
Production: ~80


pictures was scan from books.

 

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• Oct 20, 2004

• #31

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Great information. I have a paper model of the Ilya Mourymetz Beh on my site in 1/72 and 1/33 scales.
The direct link to the info is:
http://www.paperwarbirds.com/html/misc/Ilya.htm

There is a review of the kit at:
http://www.paperwarbirds.com/phpbb/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=22

 

• Feb 8, 2005

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Roy Brown, who was chasing the Baron that day, was going to the aid of his friend, Wop May, a novice combat pilot who went on to be a famous Canadian bush pilot. May got 13 'kills' during WW1.

link to May's adventure that day, http://www.kaisersbunker.com/rfc/rfc15.htm

Brown was born 50km from where I live.

A map of the flight paths. Baron - Red, May - Yellow, Brown - Blue



from http://www.anzacs.net/MvR_English.htm

 

• May 24, 2005

• #33

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I know the Sopwith Camel was a good advanced fighter but very tricky to fly.

 

• Aug 6, 2005

• #34

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i know roland garros was an early french ace who was shot down and taken prisoner.his morane monoplane crash landed over the german lines and he was captured before he had time to set fire to his plane.the unique thing to his morane was he had his own interrupter mechanism fitted to it.the outcome was the germans examined the device and introduced it to anthony fokker.he made some modifications and voila he was credited with being the genius of the interrupter mechanism.when garros escaped from his prison camp he was immediately back in his squadron and up in the air with 2 hours.several weeks later he was killed in action by an albatross.he was flying against a superior machine and was flying with rusty skills.the speed and manouverability of this unfamilliar fighter to him was to cause his death.in the time of his absense from the skys aircraft became faster more heavily armed and lethal killing machines.

 

• Aug 7, 2005

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I think I am right in saying that Roland Garros didn't have an interrupter gear on his Morane. What he had were thick metal plates so that when the bullet hit the propeller it would deflect off and not destroy the blade. Crude, basic and rough certainly, but it did work.

 

• Aug 7, 2005

• #36

FLYBOYJ

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Very Correct!

 

• Aug 8, 2005

• #37

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You can see the deflectors in this pic.

 

• Aug 8, 2005

• #38

jrk

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ok sorry guys feel free to jump on me for that.

 

• Aug 8, 2005

• #39

jrk

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heres the actual facts.

Other aircraft designers such as Franz Schneider in Germany and Raymond Saulnier in France were also working on the same idea. In the early months of 1915, the French pilot, Roland Garros, added deflector plates to the blades of the propeller of his Morane-Saulnier. The idea being that these small wedges of toughened steel would divert the passage of those bullets which struck the blades.

After the Morane-Saulnier that Roland Garros was flying crashed at Courtrai on 19th April, 1915, Anton Fokkerwas able to inspect these deflector blades. Fokker and his designers decided to take it one stage further by developing an interrupter mechanism. A cam was attached to the crankshaft of the engine in line with each propeller blade, when the blade reached a position in which it might be struck by bullets from the machine-gun, the relevant cam actuated a pushrod which, by means of a series of linkages, stopped the gun from firing. When the blade was clear, the linkages retracted, allowing the gun to fire.


i hope i,ve managed to make ammends for my mistake guys?

 

• Aug 8, 2005

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JRK. Dont take it badly. Everyone on this site makes observations and sometimes you find that a belief that you had was wrong or that you hadn't thought of a particular angle. Certainly its happened to me. That is how you learn.