[WWI] Rib Taping

[Dave Calhoun]

Just took a close look at the Windsock fokker D.VII Anthology Vol. 1 and
looks to me that none of the D.VII's had rib tapes on the ailerons or tail,
the aircraft in Jim's photo is a reproduction, quite well done with the
exception of the tapes on the ailerons!  Wondering if this is the one on
display at the US Air Force museum?  Seems like Stark's D.VII is a well
known scheme with several replicas.  Just a guess but the D.VII had steel
tubes for the tail and ailerons so they didn't have any way to sew the rib
tapes on the tubes?
Dave

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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:12:09 +0000
From: Jim Landon <thegreatlandoni at hotmail.com>
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This D.VII appears to have rib tapes on the ailerons:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkershner/2528908776/

Jim

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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:35:16 -0800
Subject: [WWI] Rib Taping










I just got started on an Eduard Fokker D.VII
Dual Kit and discovered that the Aviprint decal sheet includes rib tape
decals
for the ailerons.  I'd always thought that the rib tapes were excluded from
the ailerons, presumably because the chord was small enough so that rib
tapes
weren't necessary.

Should I apply the rib tap decals to the kits'
ailerons?...




Mike
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