DR-1 (Sands): Builders Group

[philcie]

nice to see a new flying fokker, congratulation Pete for your work!
hi jim, nice to see your on the paint stage, looks great!
here, we 've been working a lot, spares are done and we fixe the first one to the fuselage, and finish rudder, elevator and the stabilizer.
at tis tine we are buildig the amo box(3 time....)grrrr,

[snj5]

Originally Posted by Dogtail2

Woke up as it got light yesterday , about 6 o'clock, and noticed the trees outside were not moving. No wind !! No rain !!
Got over to the airfield and pulled the Triplane out of the hangar. A beautiful morning with a gentle breeze from the west at about 6 knots.
Strapped in for only the second time, and took off at 7:30 to do a timed climb.
Using 65mph indicated, Take off to 2000 feet - 1 minute 50 seconds.
Will do some more timed climbs at different speeds next time.
Levelled off & throttled back to 2100 RPM and allowed the speed to settle. Showed 98mph indicated.
Next did a full power level run to check red line rpm. It topped out at 2700 RPM giving 115 mph. The noise and wind in the face at this rpm is tremendous

These are excellent results!! You may want to take up a GPS to corraborate on a windless day.
Marvellous - congrats!!!!!

[snj5]

OBTW - for us calculation geeks, what weights and %mac were you flying?
Again - wonderful results!

[Dogtail2]

Very nice Philcie.
Make sure you check the leg room under the ammunition box with feet on the rudder bar. I had to re-do mine when I found I had insufficient leg room.

Originally Posted by snj5

These are excellent results!! You may want to take up a GPS to corraborate on a windless day.
Marvellous - congrats!!!!!

Russ,
Good idea. Just give me a windless day
I've made 3 flights now totalling 1 hour 45 minutes. I love it
Need to find a Camel to shoot at

[Dogtail2]

Originally Posted by snj5

OBTW - for us calculation geeks, what weights and %mac were you flying?
Again - wonderful results!

I had about 60 Litres of fuel on board and I weigh 165 Lbs.
So the total weight was 1327 Lbs with the CG at 13.2" aft of datum. I'll let you work out the %mac for a triple decker !

[snj5]

Originally Posted by Dogtail2

I had about 60 Litres of fuel on board and I weigh 165 Lbs.
So the total weight was 1327 Lbs with the CG at 13.2" aft of datum. I'll let you work out the %mac for a triple decker !

cool - datum was the firewall?
now - where's my slide rule?

[Dogtail2]

Datum is leading edge of center wing.

[Major Larabee]

Last Sunday we had our Bi Annual Airshow. Due to the wind and rain that Dogtail2 has been speaking about we didnt manage to get all the WW1 A/C there that we had planned for. We did however have 3 DR1's, we also had light wing and sunshine!!!!
Here is a link to a video that was taken from the DR1 i was flying.


YouTube- A flight with the Red Baron
Also a couple of pics of the action.

Shame you couldnt have made it 4Peter!

[Dogtail2]

Very nice video Mathew.

I was rat-a-tat-tatting, sitting in front of my computer watching it. How sad am I?

Love to have been there, but as Im still 'testing' Im not supposed to venture too far from my nominated airfield (Tibenham). However, I couldnt resist beating up my 'other' home airfield of Shipdham with the Triplane on Wednesday

Once again. Great Vid.

Pete

[Major Larabee]

Pete, i was rat, tat tating when i was flying it!!!! infact its hard not to when ever i fly it!!! that and whistle the Blue Max theme