2013 Best Photos of Replicas

[van der Laan]

Why is it we do not have tons of the most beautiful pictures of WW1 aeroplanes on the internet?

Collectively we own the planes! Setup for some good shots and post em here, even if you are not the owner of the plane...later we'll survey for the #1 photo of 2013.


http://memorial.flight.free.fr/gallery/DR1/fok21.jpg

[Dogtail2]

Taken in 2013 or posted in 2013 ?

Anyway.....from yesterday

http://imageshack.us/a/img404/8939/001pnn.jpg

[RobW]

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[ONEALM]

Golden Age Air Museum, Bethel, Pa. - Fokker Triplane

http://imageshack.us/a/img534/4078/fokkerresizedfromalexda.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/fokkerresizedfromalexda.jpg/)

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[ONEALM]

GAAM Sopwith Pup -


http://imageshack.us/a/img252/5471/pupinflight15sept2012.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/252/pupinflight15sept2012.jpg/)

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[van der Laan]

Dogtail2
'Posted 2013' figured we will keep going next year so needed the differentiation

Completely Awesome! ;)

ONEALM....the pup is pure porn for me ! but I'm strange like that :)

[van der Laan]

Bloomquist's Slinglsby Rumpler CIV made for the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" 1962

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0mS8mZVRBC0/UPcHEPE5TPI/AAAAAAAAAEA/Mk66GooTMgc/s640/rumpler1.jpg

[ONEALM]

Another shot of the GAAM Triplane

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7828/grimestripe6.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/12/grimestripe6.jpg/)

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[ONEALM]

GAAM Rumpler - Twin brother :-) of the Bloomquist/Slingsby airplane. Also built for Lawrence of Arabia.

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7161/rumpler5.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/694/rumpler5.jpg/)

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8075/rumpler4.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/198/rumpler4.jpg/)


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[flyingphil]

Wickenby DH2 Replica
http://imageshack.us/a/img707/9649/dsc3317b.jpg

[Dogtail2]

GB's entire fleet of DrI's, August 2012.

http://imageshack.us/a/img834/1930/001nun.jpg

[van der Laan]

The Wickenby DH2 Replica

flying over a poppy field: symbolism, composition, colors ...... wow flyingphil gets the idea in a BIG way...love that one! we need more like it

[snj5]

The wikenby dh2 over the poppy field leaves me speechless with a lump in my throat. Magnificent.

[Maxim08]

Can't compete with most of these but:

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n55/maxim08-15/GWFM-N28.jpg

Not mine, but close to home.

Regards
John

[snj5]

Is it just me or does it add so very much when these aeroplanes are on grass rather than a paved airfield?

[Maxim08]

Spoken like a true grass strip owner Russ.

Regards
JW

[van der Laan]

Is it just me or does it add so very much when these aeroplanes are on grass rather than a paved airfield?

I agree, like DogTail2's snow photos as well as Memorial's, maybe we've seen soooo many black and whites form the era, that seeing them on green fields or snow covered landscapes with endless horizons and trees registers better with us than sitting next to the BLUE ANGLES where they just look 'out of place'

[Jim Bruton]

OK- do I have to push my plane out in the snow to take a photo???

[van der Laan]

That's right :thumbsup:

Oh while you're up there in the cold and snow....push old Ed's out too and snap a few group shots? You'll be the first in the world since 1918 Jim!

[Dogtail2]

OK- do I have to push my plane out in the snow to take a photo???

It doesnt qualify unless you fly it aswell. ;)

[ONEALM]

It doesnt qualify unless you fly it as well.

After the photo and posting.... :p

[baldeagle]

Looks like skilled piloting in that Pup photo.....

Here's another one
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/10308_10151149181984578_2086345462_n.jpg



And sorta WW1
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/246853_10150207665512217_2841878_n.jpg



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[baldeagle]

From 2010:

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/36804_1351645523592_7168045_n.jpg



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[van der Laan]

baldeagle.....nice ones.....check your PMs send me your new email

[van der Laan]

Just keeping it alive .... old Ross at Dayton

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-STLTmZ-HBiE/UPn-U3k820I/AAAAAAAAAFQ/LQ5nhoVKbBE/w306-h218-n-k/ross-2.jpg

[baldeagle]

I think this is from the same year (2003?)
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/attachments/replica-aircraft/4692d1141354140-dr-1-sands-builders-group-posttriplanedawn.jpg



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[Makhpiyaluta]

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/9513/p9030236.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/268/p9030236.jpg/)

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3414/dviiairtoair.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/194/dviiairtoair.jpg/)

Willem

[TOMS]

May I try this:
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj264/tomfrenchtom/201201126R2.jpg

[Major Larabee]

Bloomquist's Slinglsby Rumpler CIV made for the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" 1962

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0mS8mZVRBC0/UPcHEPE5TPI/AAAAAAAAAEA/Mk66GooTMgc/s640/rumpler1.jpg

The Slinsby Rumpler's were not built for Lawrence of Arabia, they were built for "Biggles Sweeps The Skies" along with a Camel. a 504 and our BE2 bellow.

[Major Larabee]

Sywell Airshow 2010, im flying the red one:D

[Major Larabee]

Sywell Airshow 2008, again in the red one with John Day in his :D

[van der Laan]

The Slinsby Rumpler's were not built for Lawrence of Arabia, they were built for "Biggles Sweeps The Skies" along with a Camel. a 504 and our BE2 bellow.


I would love to hear a more detailed version of that: can you?

The old rumor Bloomquist was told was: Slingsby built them for the two airplanes needed for the ground attack scene against the beduin tribes. The two did not make it in time and were subsequently replaced by tiger moths just repainted. Was that their origin or were they really built for the other film?


Are you saying they were built after the 1962 LoA film instead and were built specifically for the 1969 film "Biggles Sweeps The Skies" , do they appear in that film as Rumpler CIVs?

Here is a story from from The Aviation Forum Publishing LTD and a few shots of the replacements


http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=91161&d=1122283791http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=91162&d=1122283791


See link <here> (http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=45681)

[Laserlloyd]

I think this is from the same year (2003?)
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/attachments/replica-aircraft/4692d1141354140-dr-1-sands-builders-group-posttriplanedawn.jpg-

Now that is a photo.. Love the early morning fog...

Lloyd...

[Brad]

The Slinsby Rumpler's were not built for Lawrence of Arabia, they were built for "Biggles Sweeps The Skies" along with a Camel. a 504 and our BE2 bellow.

Love that "Biggles Biplane!"

(Or almost anything in CDL...)

[Major Larabee]

I would love to hear a more detailed version of that: can you?

The old rumor Bloomquist was told was: Slingsby built them for the two airplanes needed for the ground attack scene against the beduin tribes. The two did not make it in time and were subsequently replaced by tiger moths just repainted. Was that their origin or were they really built for the other film?


Are you saying they were built after the 1962 LoA film instead and were built specifically for the 1969 film "Biggles Sweeps The Skies" , do they appear in that film as Rumpler CIVs?

Here is a story from from The Aviation Forum Publishing LTD and a few shots of the replacements


http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=91161&d=1122283791http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=91162&d=1122283791


See link <here> (http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=45681)

Yes I know that thread as I started it! :)
I think its a common misconseption that these two Rumplers were built for LOA, probaby because it is a well know film and it makes for a better story, the Rumplers in LOA were modified Tigers by Slingsbys with new rear decks, bigger fins and dummy engines on top of the engine cowls. There were flown from the front cockits with gun rings on the rear cockpit. When filming was finished they were left in the desert, what became of them who knows. For the film "Biggles Sweeps the Skies" Slingsbys built a Sopwith Camel, and the two Rumplers and the fact that they were also built by Slingsby is I think where the confusion comes from. Im sure the concept came from the LOA aircraft but the Biggles A/C were a new design that used Tiger Moth components but did not start life as Tigers and were then modified, this was the same for our BE2 that used Tiger moth components as well. The film was never made ironicaly due to Slingsby not finishing the Rumplers in time, this again is were the story comes from that they were not finished in time for LOA. All the A/C were stored by Universal and then sold off in the USA. The Camel came back to the UK in the eighties and is now in the FAA ( Fleet Air Arm) Museum and the BE2 came back in 2005 as a wreck. The 504 and the two Rumplers remain in the USA.
I have some drawings from the Rumplers somewhere as Slingbys were involved in the stress calculation of the BE2 that my father and Uncle built, I will dig em out and check the dates. For the time being here is a page from a book on Slingsby's regarding the Rumplers, first flight 1969 :)

[Maxim08]

I posted this some years ago. It's my personal 'most memorable'. Not being a very experienced photographer and wanting a long exposure to show the rotary rotating, I wan't smart enough to : 1 - use a long lens or 2 - duck. Near decapitation is quite the experience.

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n55/maxim08-15/06.jpg

A more relaxed view.

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n55/maxim08-15/Dr1/DSC_0517.jpg

The guns are real as is the engine.

Regards
John

[Rittmeister]

Now that is a photo.. Love the early morning fog...

Lloyd...

Really well done. would be way cool to see about 5 or6 more trailing off into fog. Real dawn patrol stuff...:apilot:

[Rittmeister]

I posted this some years ago. It's my personal 'most memorable'. Not being a very experienced photographer and wanting a long exposure to show the rotary rotating, I wan't smart enough to : 1 - use a long lens or 2 - duck. Near decapitation is quite the experience.

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n55/maxim08-15/06.jpg

A more relaxed view.

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n55/maxim08-15/Dr1/DSC_0517.jpg

The guns are real as is the engine.

Regards
John

NICE! Even authentic oil stains....:cool:

[Jim Bruton]

DR1 Snowbird.

[US95Damiani]

25328
More photos of the GAAM Rumpler courtesy of Jamie Holzschuh.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/20/ara7e9e4.jpg

And the Pup

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/20/a6e8yze6.jpg

This time yours truly flying :-)

[Major Larabee]

I would love to hear a more detailed version of that: can you?

The old rumor Bloomquist was told was: Slingsby built them for the two airplanes needed for the ground attack scene against the beduin tribes. The two did not make it in time and were subsequently replaced by tiger moths just repainted. Was that their origin or were they really built for the other film?


Are you saying they were built after the 1962 LoA film instead and were built specifically for the 1969 film "Biggles Sweeps The Skies" , do they appear in that film as Rumpler CIVs?

Here is a story from from The Aviation Forum Publishing LTD and a few shots of the replacements


http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=91161&d=1122283791http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=91162&d=1122283791


See link <here> (http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=45681)

Just to add a little, the Rumplers were registered in 1969 as G-AXAL and G-AXAM respectively. The drawings i have from Slingsby are dated Jan 1969 which fits in with the build of the BE2 and other replica's for "Biggles Sweeps the Skies" long after LOA in 1962.

[bence]

Nieuport-24 replica of my father in law

[US95Damiani]

I retract my statement and substitute yours Maj Larabee,

Very well done! Thank you for clearing the record on the Rumplers.

One interesting issue is the oiling system. We found that the oil pressure would disappear after 10 min or so. and after a bit of troubleshooting realized there was no real oil return. Once we fabbed and installed a return the oil pressure stayed up wonderfully. In addition once we dug into the engine for cylinder replacement we found this engine was actually a Mk 7 of 145 HP.

[RobW]

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/RobW_2006/DSC00643.jpg


http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/RobW_2006/Airdrome%20Tabloid%20Build/P1012813.jpg

[Major Larabee]

I retract my statement and substitute yours Maj Larabee,

Very well done! Thank you for clearing the record on the Rumplers.

One interesting issue is the oiling system. We found that the oil pressure would disappear after 10 min or so. and after a bit of troubleshooting realized there was no real oil return. Once we fabbed and installed a return the oil pressure stayed up wonderfully. In addition once we dug into the engine for cylinder replacement we found this engine was actually a Mk 7 of 145 HP.

My Pleasure, I guess LOA makes for a better story :)
Gipsy Major 10-1 of 145 Hp, ally heads and domed pistons for higher compression. Yes the oil system is a challenge. We too fitted another oil return.
We also had an issue where f you left the A/C for any length of time, over a week, and then started it you had no oil presure and had to re prime th oil system! This we found as dure t oil draining away from the pump which is now at the top of the engine, not the best place for it!!
This we cured by changing the pipe from the pressure side of the pump to stop it draining and a NRV at the tank!!
Been fine since :)

[joegertler]

I love the foggy "Dawn Patrol" type shots, too. :)
Here are two 20 year old Kodachrome slides , I took with my ancient Argus C3, 35mm film camera. Two of my favorites. Have a whole bunch more of these with pilots in uniform and multiple planes etc. Hope you enjoy..
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww39/memaerobilia/sg15w.jpg
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww39/memaerobilia/sg5w.jpg

[snj5]

Camel at Dawn; Maiden flight of D1845
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc262/snj5_photo/sunset-maidenflightofthecamel05162011013.jpg
Over the fields of France...well, sort of.
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc262/snj5_photo/IMG_0190.png
Sopwith Baby First flight
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc262/snj5_photo/DSC_0549a3z_zps8d2a6390.jpg

[US95Damiani]

My Pleasure, I guess LOA makes for a better story :)
Gipsy Major 10-1 of 145 Hp, ally heads and domed pistons for higher compression. Yes the oil system is a challenge. We too fitted another oil return.
We also had an issue where f you left the A/C for any length of time, over a week, and then started it you had no oil presure and had to re prime th oil system! This we found as dure t oil draining away from the pump which is now at the top of the engine, not the best place for it!!
This we cured by changing the pipe from the pressure side of the pump to stop it draining and a NRV at the tank!!
Been fine since :)

May I ask you to send me a pic of the change to your oil pressure line? And the location of your NRV? We are having the same issue.

Thank you so much!

[Major Larabee]

May I ask you to send me a pic of the change to your oil pressure line? And the location of your NRV? We are having the same issue.

Thank you so much!

Will do, will need to take the top cowl off so it may take a few days to get round to it :)

[Dogtail2]

Camel at Dawn; Maiden flight of D1845
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc262/snj5_photo/sunset-maidenflightofthecamel05162011013.jpg


Very nice! :cool:

http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww39/memaerobilia/sg5w.jpg

This too.