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Fokker DV kit content


Fokker D-V 1916

 


Specifications:  
Wingspan 68.9” 175 cm
Length 47.6” 121 cm
Wing area   62,6 dm²
Weight 9.3 Ibs 4200 g
Wing Load   67 g/dm²
Engine 7 - 10cc  (.46 - .60) 2-stroke
  10 -15 cc  (.60 - .91) 4-stroke
Radio 4-channel with 5 servos


The Model
This a model of a size that is easy to fly, but also convenient to transport. Both the upper and the lower wing panels can be removed for transport which limited room needed for transportation.
Rudder and elevator are controlled by pull-pull cables from the rudder bar and the control column. Ailerons are controlled by pull-pull cables as on the prototype.
With a .46 (7,5cc) 2-stroke engine the airplane is capable of all the manoeuvers in the book, but it is still as docile as you can expect a fighter trainer will be. The moment arms are short and the rudders sensitive, so if you can, fly with a dual rate transmitter. The finished model is painted in 1916 livery and further detailing can be made as per documentation.

Fokker D-V
The famous “Red Baron” flew a Fokker D-III that entered service in June 1916, but he advanced to an Albatros D-III which had superior performance. The much improved and more streamlined model DV evolved in late 1916, only to be hampered with an under powered engine. Some 300 D-V were produced and delivered during the first half of 1917, and were used primarily as trainers for the more powerful and agile Fokker DR-1 triplane, Pfalz D Vial and Siemens- Schuckert D III that were expected to be received later that year.
The Fokker D-V has been described as a pilots aircraft with a lot of possibilities and similar to a thoroughbred racehorse. Pilots used to fly the slow and insensitive Albatros and others of the same kind, either crashed it or left it alone.

The upper wing was swept back 6° and the lower wing straight. The equal spanned wings had no dihedral and only the upper wing had ailerons . Aileron linkage is by wire from the upper wing via
pulleys in the lower wing to the fuselage and control column. The elevator is all flying (no fixed stabilizer) and the balanced rudder has no fin. Both are controlled by pull-pull cables directly to the rudder bar and the control column. Equipped with a 100 hp Oberursel Rotary engine it obtained a maximum speed of almost 100 m/h, however, not considered enough for a fighter of this time. A Spandau machine gun was mounted off center to the right in front of the windscreen for practice and self defense.


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Austria-Hungary
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Finland
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France
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Morane Saulnier H
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Nieuport 17 C-1
Antoinette VII
SPAD XIII
Voisin Bi-plane
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Germany
Albatros C-1
Focke Wulf FW44
Fokker D-V
Fokker D-VII
Fokker E-III
Junkers CL-1
Pfalz E-I
Pfalz E-III

Great Britain
Avro 504 K
Blackburn Mono D
Bristol F2B
R.A.F. SE5a
Sopwith Tri-plane
R.A.F. BE2a
Vickers Vimy

Italy
Macchi M7
Nieuport 17

Japan
K5Y2 Willow (Float)
K5Y1 Willow

Sweden
Focke Wulf FW44
Macchi M7
Phönix D-III
Sk1 CFM Albatros 120
Thulin K
Ö1 Tummelisa

USA
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Wright Flyer
Thomas Morse
Ryan NYP
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Stearman PT17

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