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If they did it then, we can do it now. Maybe after I finish my Nieuport....
Since I would probably have to use a Ranger or Gipsy 6 engine I wouldn't worry about making the structure 100% authentic, as long as it had the right look when it was done. And, as all apparently agree, what a look it is!
I have a three-view drawing from the French magazine l'Aerophile that looks pretty good. It's from the issue of 15 July, 1918, does anybody have the rest of the article?
Achim,
Can't wait to see, and hear, the D.VII. I grew up at Rhinebeck, and have early memories of the sound of the Mercedes in the old D.VII. The new one there has more of a bark, it must be the higher horsepower version. I also got to fly one of the ex-Blue Max D.VIIs out in California, it wasn't as accurate as yours will be, it had a Gipsy 6 engine, but it sure flew nicely, like the proverbial overgrown Piper Cub.
AK
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