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24 May 2004, 01:26 AM
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I thought this might be of some interest to some of you:
http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/c...y/0524spad.html Kirby
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24 May 2004, 08:53 AM
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Kirby buddy: I found that you gotta register w/the paper's web site and I decline the honor. Too many irrelevant questions of a marketing nature. What's the subject of the article?
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It's titled "Museum Adds Wood Wings to Collection (Carpenters reconstruct WWI fighter.)".
The article is about the USAF Museum's latest acquisition, a Spad XIII. It briefly describes the great craftsmanship of the wooden parts of the fighter. The Spad spoken of was built by a piano maker. It was shipped, along with 434 other Spads to the USA after the war and used to train American pilots in San Diego. It was donated by Cole Palen and had been flown at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. The article goes on to tell about the problems encountered in reconstructing the plane and how the fittings and scale were determined. It took about 14,000 hours to restore. It was restored to resemble Rickenbacker's plane, right down to the bullet holes. It mentions the research into the holes letting cooling air into the radiator and finally determining they were diamond shaped. There was more detail about the reconstruction and a brief history of this type aircraft. My apologies to all. I did not realize the article would be so difficult to access. Kirby
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24 May 2004, 12:46 PM
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I read the article... the "piano maker" is probably one of the subcontracting firms that during wartime were diverted to wartime manufacturing due to their expertise with woodworking. Not a "piano maker" in the sense of a single craftsman.
Other companies (Fokker utilized the Perzina Pianoforte Fabrik for manufacture of the wooden wing structures) were also used in this way by all sides during the war.
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