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FSX: The 1940 Fokker T.5 bomber released

Please note I mean virtual Mercury's :D The D.21 has a Mercury, so in fact I have an infinite number of them...

Some further progress.

I eventually remade the entire tail section. It is now right according to pictures, so I started to add the waist windows. Just in front of the right window, there's a door (with built-in stairs!) but not yet added. I'm still working in the Mirror Modifier.

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And there's the second pilot/top gunner position. The first pilot sat in the cockpit, the second sat in the bathtube at the back of the airplane, with a sliding roof and hydraulically operated windscreen. His job could be either flying forward or firing backward, he even had two seats.

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Though I've recieved bulks of information, bulks of information are still missing either. There are no detail photographs of both the exterior of cockpit section and the roof... Anyway, this causes my model to be not fully accurate...

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Thank you Cees!

I've played a bit more with this bird: I added wings. Since I have both the airfoil data and windtunnel testing report (of a 1:20 model, not 1:1) this was a fairly easy job. I spend some more time on the rounded wingtips, I still find them difficult to model (googling rounded wingtips returns shoes...). I did them better than on the D.21 though, IMHO.
Prolly I'll throw the wing geometry through AVL, for fun and maybe it has use... AVL is software for Computational Fluid Dynamics: AVL

Next steps are the engines + nacelles and the vertical stabilizer. The roof hatch has to be redone (according to specialists at the Dutch forum) and I need to add the tail cone turret.

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Wow the very secret Fokker T.V glider bomber. A predecessor of the stealth bomber :biggrin-new:

But it looks good Dan and you are making progress quite fast.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Thank you for sharing. It is amazing to be there at the birth of a plane, & watch it evolve.
Many thanks.
 
Thanks guys, I really love the job!

I couldn't resist to put two Mercury's on the bird
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I understood the Pegasus (XXVI) and the Mercury are relatives, so changing the Mercury into a Pegasus won't be too difficult.

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I need references though. Does someone have (good) photographs, drawings, sketches of this engine? I found Google a little disappointing this time...
 
Daan, I have Alec Lumsden's standard work on British Piston Aero engine. So I'm sure I will be able to dig up some information. But in general the Pegasus is the long stroke version of the Mercury. Therefore the main difference is the diameter which is 55.3 inch or the Pegasus, compared with the 51.5 inch for the Mercury.
Like the Mercury there was a plate behind/between the cylinders to guide the airflow. Although this plate was a bit further to the back. (I have a picture of it, but am not able to scan it right now).

Below a picture of the Pegasus XXI which looks very similar to the XXVI, although the last one was designed to coop with a constant speed propeller.

Cheers,
Huub

 
Thanks Huub! So far, it appears to me I only need to change the cylinder's length. That's not too difficult.
The Pegasus looks even simpler than the Mercury.
 
The modification proved to be not difficult at all. I changed the Mercury a little now it is a Pegasus. Maybe some things need to be changed yet, like texture which I'm not really satisfied of, should be less colourful...

Anyway, both model...

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...and texture shots.

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I keep on updating, but progress is going on nicely, so...

I added the vertical stabilizers and refined both the vertical and horizontal tail. There's a tailplane now, with elevators and rudders and trim surfaces.

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Good looking airplane, but kinda looks like a Mitchell that didn't eat its Wheaties... :encouragement:

I guess the same could be said...for the...Ercoupe. OK, moving on!

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Thanks! I feel quite satisfied about the progress, better than I expected.
The Mitchell is a contemporary of the T.5 (eh, the Dutch birds didn't have names, right?) but from a half generation later... The T.9, the all-metal descendant of the T.5, could be better considered as contemporary to the Mitchell, I think.

The nose cone had a very nice view. There's even a photograph from this greenhouse to the outside, which I believe is unique in the Dutch pre-war context (read: no photographs of anything).
 
Thanks! I feel quite satisfied about the progress, better than I expected.
The Mitchell is a contemporary of the T.5 (eh, the Dutch birds didn't have names, right?) but from a half generation later... The T.9, the all-metal descendant of the T.5, could be better considered as contemporary to the Mitchell, I think.

The nose cone had a very nice view. There's even a photograph from this greenhouse to the outside, which I believe is unique in the Dutch pre-war context (read: no photographs of anything).
 
Continued work on the Main Landing Gear. The red rods are Remove Before Flight things, they were used to prevent retracting the gear while on the ground. They had to be removed before flight.
As you can see, there are drawings available, but as soon as you're making progress, there's still not enough detail. So, if anyone has drawings/photographs of both the gear and/or the wheelbay, please...?

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Amazing how much it already looks like a real T-V!

Personally I don't think there was much in the wheel well. The oil tank was there, directly behind the engine and the structure to support the under carriage. Perhaps the fire extinguishers for the engine. Knowing the Fokker's logic approach, I assume it was very similar to the wheel well of the G-1.

Cheers,
Huub
 
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