FW-200 C-1 Condor

[ThomasP]

Here is a website for kitplane builders. It does a fairly good job of explaining the basics of doped fabric covering on aircraft in today's light civil aviation.

"Best Practices"

Below is a photo of a Hawker Hurricane as it was being rebuilt a few years ago. The wooden stringers and formers that create the external shape of the rear fuselage have yet to be covered by doped linen.

And this is what the aft fuselage would look like after rebuild.

 

[special ed]

Does the rebuilt/repro Fw 200 in Germany have the fabric covered panels or more modern sheet metal?

 

[Wurger]

Does the rebuilt/repro Fw 200 in Germany have the fabric covered panels or more modern sheet metal?

They covered it with the fabric but used the modern skin ORATEX UL600.

Restaurierung: Außenflügel – Focke-Wulf Fw 200 "Condor"

 

[Wurger]

There's something else I'm interested in asking. In the drawings of the early Condor in the fuselage area, the connection of the sheets is only vertical. But I haven't found any photographs confirming this drawing, could it be like this?View attachment 796730

Do you mean the bottom or the top of the central wing?

 

[Stas1234]

Do you mean the bottom or the top of the central wing?

Upper

 

[Wurger]

OK. IMHO the drawings aren't too accurate regarding thepanel lines for the C-3. The problem is that there aren't images of a very good quality. But I found two enough good to notice the layout of the panels both on the top and undersides. I enlarged them and cropped. I counted about 5 rivet lines going horizontally.

 

[Crimea_River]

That would be why he's looking for drawings but I suspect that finding any original plans will be very difficult if not impossible.

 

[Wurger]

OK. IMHO the drawings aren't too accurate regarding the panel lines for the C-3. The problem is that there aren't images of a very good quality. But I found two enough good to notice the layout of the panels both on the top and undersides. I enlarged them and cropped. I counted about 5 rivet lines going horizontally.

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Yep ... about 5 rivet lines from the main stringer to the trailing edge ... and 4 panels to the leading edge. However the rear part of the central wing seems to have more complex covering than it is shown in the drawings above.

 

[Capt. Vick]

If I remember correctly, this had some really good Condor drawings. If I remember tomorrow, I will check for you.