You all know what this means.....

nice job Cees, you're a quick Fokker aren't you :icon_lol: great job on the engines! can't with till i get an FS PC Again..... keep up the great work, your beers on me :ernae:
 
One more week vacation to go and then real life will take its toll! So I want to get things done! With all the detailing on the outside and the VC to go I'm beginning to wonder if this model will get to the limits of FSDS? Maybe I'll have to learn the new method Bill brought to our attention in the future.

Cees
 
OBIO said:
Cees

Those are some seriously nice radial engines you have put together.

OBIO
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Thanks OBIO,

One you've got a good radial, you can use it in differerent configs, numbers of cilinders. Took me a day long modelling BTW!

Cees
 
As I can't get the fuselage right in the usual way, I started building as they did in the old days! Great fun!

:wavey:

Cees
 
Using a nearly completed tube frame I began buiding the fuselage skin. An adapted frame will also be used in the VC, so the work done on that serves a double purpose! When the front of the fuselage, where it goes from almost square to rounded, is done, I'm one (giant) step further in the proces of building this beautiful Fokker plane from the thirties.

:ernae:

Cees
 
Great work so far Cees! Good to see you've picked up one of Fokker's less successful designs.

Found a photo of the three prototypes which show three different engines, three different landing gear configs and at least two different wing configs!

One was designed with a Jaguar engine for Italy but ended up in Manchuria of all places, the second prototype had a Bristol jupiter engine and was sold to Hungary who ordered another three aircraft.
The last one had the 625 hp Curtiss Conqueror and was built for the LA-KNIL but after the prototype crashed no aircraft was ordered. The Dutch LVA did order the D.XVI, but with the Jaguar engine. Fourteen were ordered, and registered 275-288. Vijf crashed within a short time span, and other suffered from engine failures so the aircraft was restricted to a limited range away from the field. Reducing the diameter of the pistons a bit helped to solve the engine problem, but increased the oil consumption limiting the endurance of the aircraft to 1.5 hours while it could carry enough fuel for 3 hour! On may 10th 1940 only the 277 was still operational, flying with the 'jachtvliegschool' at De Vlijt and was captured intact by the Germans.
 
Ferry_vO said:
Great work so far Cees! Good to see you've picked up one of Fokker's less successful designs.

Found a photo of the three prototypes which show three different engines, three different landing gear configs and at least two different wing configs!

One was designed with a Jaguar engine for Italy but ended up in Manchuria of all places, the second prototype had a Bristol jupiter engine and was sold to Hungary who ordered another three aircraft.
The last one had the 625 hp Curtiss Conqueror and was built for the LA-KNIL but after the prototype crashed no aircraft was ordered. The Dutch LVA did order the D.XVI, but with the Jaguar engine. Fourteen were ordered, and registered 275-288. Vijf crashed within a short time span, and other suffered from engine failures so the aircraft was restricted to a limited range away from the field. Reducing the diameter of the pistons a bit helped to solve the engine problem, but increased the oil consumption limiting the endurance of the aircraft to 1.5 hours while it could carry enough fuel for 3 hour! On may 10th 1940 only the 277 was still operational, flying with the 'jachtvliegschool' at De Vlijt and was captured intact by the Germans.
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Can you share the photo Ferry? I can use all possible material.

Cees
 
It's a pretty small photo Cees, but I'll see what I can do! Need to get my old scanner working under W7 first though..
 
Well who needs a scanner when you have an 18-mp dslr?

Do you have an e-mail adress for me Cees? I've lost a few in the last computer crash..
 
Cees,

Thanks for your e-mail. I will have a look at it this evening as real life limited my "play" time.

Is the picture sorted out? I do have the same picture in the book "Fameuze Fokker vliegtuigen" (Famous Fokker aircrafts). I assume it is the same source Ferry is referring to, as the picture is small and the extreme high contrast hides more or less all details.

However if wanted I can scan it tomorrow at work.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Huub, this is what I have:

IMG_6463.jpg


However, SOH now automatically resizes to 800 pixels wide, I do have it double the size if Cees wants it.

Edit: Try this direct link : http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/Ferror/Diversen/?action=view&current=IMG_6463.jpg
 
Yep its the same picture and (at least for me) it does open in full format at Photobucket.

The aircrafts at the picture are all early models as the final production aircraft which was used by the LVA didn't have the long diagonal strut between the main wing struts and the fuselage. Only the 275 which was delivered as evaluation aircraft had these struts.

Cheers,
Huub
 
huub vink said:
The aircraft in the picture are all early models
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From left to right: The Italian D.XVI with the 460 HP Siddeley Jaguar, the Hungarian D.XVI with the Bristol Jupiter (Also 460 hp) and the KNIL D.XVI with the 625 hp Curtiss Conqueror.

The other photos from the book 'De Nederlandse Vliegtuigen' by Theo Wesselink and Thijs Postma:

IMG_6464.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/Ferror/Diversen/IMG_6464.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/Ferror/Diversen/IMG_6466.jpg

IMG_6465.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/Ferror/Diversen/IMG_6465.jpg


IMG_6466.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/Ferror/Diversen/IMG_6466.jpg

:)
 
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