Fokker Dr.I package for FS2004

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Fokker Dr.I package for FS2004 - A package containing an original Dr.I model for FS2004

This package contains an authorized rework of Gary Aumaugher's Fokker Dr1 originally made for the Aerocrate project, Martin Klein added new details and made some changes to the texture layout to allow additional details to be incorporated. Textures were done by Huub Vink and include all versions of the Fokker Dr1 flown by Manfred Von Richthofen. Shessi kindly rendered his assistance to improve get the behaviour of the typical CFS2 flight model by John Fortin in FS2004. The version in this...
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Good evening friends

just did some flight test with the Dr.1
I tried to make a looping from level flight but the plane do not pass it.
But at the Hahnweide some years ago Michael Carlson did some loopings just from straigt level flight on.
I was astonished with the few speed he had and how narrow the looping was flown. And as far as I know he had not
an engine with more power. He just had an 9-cylinder Le Rhône rotary, 110 hp engine

Best regards

Michael
 
Dear Micheal,

We decided to go with these flight dynamics as the speeds are as close as we could get to the original aircraft.

On the 26th of January I posted a link to a YouTube movie in this thread where you can see Mikael Carlson's full demonstration flight at Hahnweide. I just watched it again, but in this movie even the extremely talented Mikael Calson can't make a full looping from a straight flight. He makes several Immelmann turns, but based on the engine sounds, even these may not have been made from a fully horizontal flight.
According to Mikael Carlson's web pages his Dr.1 replica has a 9-cylinder Le Rhône rotary engine with an output of 110 hp.

But in my post of 26 January I already reconised that there is always room for inprovement "and challenge everybody who think he can make something better, to do this."

Cheers,
Huub
 
michaelvader said:
I tried to make a looping from level flight but the plane do not pass it.
But at the Hahnweide some years ago Michael Carlson did some loopings just from straigt level flight on.
I was astonished with the few speed he had and how narrow the looping was flown. And as far as I know he had not
an engine with more power. He just had an 9-cylinder Le Rhône rotary, 110 hp engine
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We're only simulating and your realization is precisely the difference between realism and simulation.

huub vink said:
"and challenge everybody who think he can make something better, to do this."
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Very good point, i can only agree with that.
 
By the way, movies about WWI show us full aerobatic aircrafts exactly what most of them were not. They turned sharply and can climb brutally but not for long... Looping was never done from straight fly.
 
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