[WWI] Added:Westland Wapiti

[Douglas Anderson]

Gentlemen, I feel I am misunderstood, what I wrote was tongue-in-cheek and definately not to be taken seriously

Ray Boorman <fokkereiv at gmail.com> wrote:  Eureka.... Exactly the point. Its stretching things way way too far and
should not be on a wwi site. Great model though, just not on topic

Ray

On 2/27/07, Christopher Malany wrote:
>
> Hi, Doug:
>
> > From an engineers point of view, if the wings
> > were manufactured during the great war, the aircraft
> > itself dates from that period as the whole is only
> > as good as the oldest or frailest part.
>
> I do see your point in theory, but can't agree in
> fact, for a variety of reasons:
>
> 1) The DeHavilland DH-9A itself saw only limited
> service in 1918, and continued to soldier on until
> 1930. While a WWI design that flew during the
> conflict, most "Nine-Ack" components and parts were
> likely manufactured post-war.
>
> 2) Though the Air Ministry specification encouraged
> the use of DH-9A parts, the Westland Wapiti airframe
> and powerplant were very different from DeHavilland's
> design, or any other WWI-era design.
>
> 3) Ironically, DeHavilland's own design to meet
> Specification 26/27 used NO surplus DH-9A parts.
>
> Consider this hypothetical: Hawker was Sopwith's
> direct successor-in-interest. The Hawker Fury was one
> of the landmark interwar biplane fighters. If
> left-over turnbuckles originally from the Sopwith
> Snipe production line were pulled out of stores and
> used on a Fury, does this make it a World War I a/c?
> Don't think so.
>
> - Chris Malany
>


 
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