How to fix streamers on a DrI ?

Hans · 23 December 2003, 01:03 PM

Gentlemen,
I decided to represent v.Tutscheks 404/17 with the help of the new Revell kit. But I am not sure where to fix the leader's streamers.

Could it be that there was a thin rope slung around the wing strut? I can't identify anything for sure, so any suggestions are appreciated!

Merry christmas,

Hans

VonHelton · 24 December 2003, 08:52 AM

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Originally posted by Hans@Dec 23 2003, 09:03 PM
[b] Gentlemen,
I decided to represent v.Tutscheks 404/17 with the help of the new Revell kit. But I am not sure where to fix the leader's streamers.

Could it be that there was a thin rope slung around the wing strut? I can't identify anything for sure, so any suggestions are appreciated!

Merry christmas,

Hans

I am under the impression that the streamer was attached to the wing skids of the lower wings.

Hans · 24 December 2003, 02:43 PM

They are not. Look at the picture. The streamer hangs down from the trailing edge, the skid is right and lower of that.

H.

( P.S. No need to waste bandwidth by repeating a picture which is simply just above....

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VonHelton · 24 December 2003, 05:34 PM

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Originally posted by Hans@Dec 24 2003, 10:43 PM
[b] They are not. Look at the picture. The streamer hangs down from the trailing edge, the skid is right and lower of that.

H.

( P.S. No need to waste bandwidth by repeating a picture which is simply just above....

)

I don't know what that black thing is, but it looks awefully straight to be a streamer!

lilmerkin · 25 December 2003, 01:10 AM

proberly just tacked to the rib

29 December 2003, 02:34 AM

Right on, That Black thing is no streamer.

Barker · 29 December 2003, 06:01 AM

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Originally posted by Hans@Dec 23 2003, 03:03 PM
[b] Gentlemen,
I decided to represent v.Tutscheks 404/17.
But I am not sure where to fix the leader's streamers.
Hans

Hello Hans -

These are my sources:
Osprey's "Fokker Dr1 Aces", Albatros' Fabric Datafile Special "vR's Flying Circus" and Schuster & Engels' "Fokker V.5/Dr 1"
Osprey and Schuster/Engels each display the picture you have posted here.
Osprey shows another of 404/17 showing the streamer thrown up around the bottom interplane strut. Osprey shows this streamer in a sideview as running from black to white, trailing.
Just to set that...
I looked at the Schuster/Engels booklet to get at structure to determine where this could be attached.
Some candidates:
-Any of the joining hardware for the interplane strut to the wing frame.
-trailing edge structure
-wing rib
This is all guess, but I rule out the last two as running a screw through them may weaken the piece. Having a 2-3 m long streamer tugging on them would not help matters.

I keep looking in and around the strut to find something to fasten it to.
Fastening it to a hardware brace makes some sense in that it is at least fixed to something steel, rather than wood.
The more I think about a cable or wire, the more I "see" this thing abrading and scraping hell out of the fabric in that area of the wing.

anyhoo, that's my two pfennings.

pg # refs:
Osprey pp. 76, 39 plate, profile #24
Fokker V.5/Dr 1 pp 50, strut plan view, 19 (same Osprey photo), 20, your photo, closer.

Incidently, these are my only sources and I found no other Dr 1's with streamers for comparison as to how "they" may have done it. Odd. Somebody had to have fixed streamers to a triplane besides Herr v.Tutschek...

VonHelton · 29 December 2003, 07:42 AM

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Originally posted by topgun56@Dec 29 2003, 10:34 AM
[b] Right on, That Black thing is no streamer.

On my models, I tied the streamer to the wing skid..........

It "feels" right to me........

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