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Originally Posted by StephenLawson
We tell the course of production by dates. Times and dates are what we do research by. I can not agree with you concerning your "hypothesis." It is simply not fact based.
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I asked for a picture or whatever proof on your "one-piece" turtledeck theory. Did you duck out?
The turtledeck is what I call the top section of the fuselage behind the pilot. Are you including the vertical side panels too in your turtledeck definition? (maybe I misunderstood) The production D.Is used a "one-piece side panel", which would require more tooling & harder to produce sheetmetal stock, but would save time in assembly. Even the 4 long-fuselage D.Is also look to be one-piece, and the captured D.Is in Belgium were of all one-piece. The only two-piece corrugated side panels, is what I call the Jco prototype (on page 70). For some reason, most all 3-views are drawn and plastic models are of this example. The Blue Max Junkers D.I is modeled after this one prototype. Its like everyone copies all previous work and the misconceptions perpetuate.