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Posted: August/31/2020 at 9:55pm  Quote
 
The Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter?  Could it really have been so obvious all along?  
 
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Posted: August/31/2020 at 10:16pm  Quote
 
Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter it is, Abufletcher.  

Thought I'd go for a less obscure aircraft, but perhaps lesser-known facts about it.

The Strutter, showing the W arangement of the "1 1/2" cabane struts, after which it's named.

The air-bakes.  The pilot deployed them using a hand wheel in the cockpit.  They were effective, but because they were next to the fuselage, they disrupted air flow over the horizontal stab'.  Not such a good idea!

Naval use, launched from platforms, often using gun turrets to support the temporary platforms (second picture).

First two pictures show airbags deflated, then inflated.  Also aqua planes (hydro-foils) between the wheels to prevent nose-overs.  Third picture shows a ditched aircraft, waiting for retrieval.

There were also air bags in the fus'.

What's next abufletcher?  Tag, you're "it".


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Posted: August/31/2020 at 10:38pm  Quote
 
I have a model Strutter (Proctor kit) and it's by far the easiest WWI model I've flown - particularly take-off and landing.  It's a sweetheart.

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Posted: August/31/2020 at 10:43pm  Quote
 
All the parts I ordered for the Sopwith Stutter from Jim Reeves arrived yesterday.
Now I have to find a suitable engine, all of mine are too big to fit inside the cowl.

 Alan.



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Posted: September/01/2020 at 12:30am  Quote
 
There were a few red-herrings in there.  For example, "designed as a fighter."    I have the Strutter datafile and had seen the "airbags" but never thought of them as anything more than experimental. 

This should have been super easy for me since I also have the Mick Reeve Stutter kit (at 1/4 scale) and even started a build thread on it here...but got busy with other projects.  I also have the Replicraft drawings and started to obsess over following those instead. (I wasn't happy with some of the ways the new Strutter kit has been "redesigned.")

The plan was to use my Seidel/UMS 770 radial for power.





 
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Posted: September/01/2020 at 12:32am  Quote
 
Anyway, I'll give some thought to a "next quiz."  Stay tuned.
 
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Posted: September/01/2020 at 7:59am  Quote
 
OK, here goes:

* Inspired by the success of an enemy.
* Revolutionary for its time.
* Had some initial problems.

 
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Posted: September/01/2020 at 8:18am  Quote
 
Fokker Triplane?  The three clues do fit, but probably fit other aircraft too!

For the DR.1:
* Inspired by the success of an enemy.   (the Sopwith Triplane)
* Revolutionary for its time. (no interplane rigging)
* Had some initial problems.  (some broke up due to moisture getting into wing spars and ribs)


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