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Old 9 October 2009, 05:03 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Sopwith Dolphin help ....

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I am looking for a dimensioned rib profile for the Sopwith Dolphin. Can anyone help me with locating this info or drawing? Thanks.

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Old 9 October 2009, 06:32 AM   #2 (permalink)
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You will probably do better than this but this is what I have. Drawing is by W.A. Wylam from the MAN Scale Aircraft drawings vol.1 book. You can probably get original drawings from the NASM. Oh, the scale of this drawing is 1/4"= 1'.0"
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Thanks John! I will look into the NASM drawings too.

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Was it Dick King or Cole Palen who built the one that flew at Rhinebeck? Wylam's drawings are very nice but have some funny bugs in them.
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WF2, have you contacted ORA? I know they had the fuselage of their Dolphin pretty much rebuilt and may have the wings somewhere also. (Iw has been a few years sinc I was there).

That said, the wings they used amy not be accurate for what you are doing.

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