A Beauty sleeping in the Dust

[Olham 164]

The great "Wingnut Wings" website is always good for new discoveries.

I just strolled through the photographs again and found pictures of the Roland D.VI,

which is waiting for it's restauration in Krakow.

 

The pic shows very well, how they built the seat so, that you could set it back or fore, in three steps.

The handle on top of the stick looks interesting and unfamiliar to me. Does anyone know, what that

left hand grip is? Could it be a throttle?

 

Here is also a cockpit interior from the Albatros D.Va built by "The Vintage Aviator".

 

 

 

 

[Hasse Wind 46]

Yes, it's the throttle. The Fokker D.VII has a similar one.

 

Nice details for model builders in those pics. P4?

[Olham 164]

Yes, I feel tempted to try modelling a Roland D.VI. But yet only tempted...

[Shiloh 12]

That's amazing to see Olham. That seat doesn't look as comfortable as my IKEA "flying" chair with pleated cushion.

 

Edited July 8, 2011 by Shiloh

[Hasse Wind 46]

Hey, I have exactly the same kind of chair, except its colour is red!

[Shiloh 12]

Hey, I have exactly the same kind of chair, except its colour is red!

 

Small world Hasse Wind! Mine is actually white and I have 2 of them that are similar. Here's a pic of how I designed my sim pit around it. This thread is going downhill quick no thanks to me.

 

Edited July 8, 2011 by Shiloh

[Hasse Wind 46]

Nice cockpit. Olham's a good old bean, I'm sure he won't mind a little off-topicness.

[Olham 164]

Not as off-topic as you may think, guys!

A friend of mine insists in buying me a POÄNG from IKEA (they have two types of these, which look similar;

the POÄNG is the expensive one with a change- and washable cushion), cause I helped him with some work.

I will, like Hasse Wind, take a red one, with black wooden parts.

Damn, the world has become small... ...or IKEA got really big!

 

As for the Roland - it surely had some padding or leather seat, which got rotten away or removed.

Edited July 8, 2011 by Olham

[Hasse Wind 46]

Good choice, Olham.

 

As to the Roland's seat, if it was an IKEA seat, maybe it was stolen, because it was so soft and comfortable.

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

is your IKEA as bad as ours?...in that you have to follow the route all the way around the damn store?..god, i hate the place!

[Olham 164]

No, we have shortcuts inbetween the various departments.

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

No, we have shortcuts inbetween the various departments.

 

Oh yeah..we have those too...but they always seem to go exactly where you dont want to be!

[Olham 164]

...and you always end up with having bought lots of little funny devices and stuff,

which doesn't appear so funny and nice anymore, when you have them back home.

Maybe they spray some drugs in the air?

[RAF_Louvert 101]

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It is easier to fly an Eindecker from Mulhouse to Nancy and back in a blizzard, with no in-sim map, than it is to navigate your way around an IKEA. The layout of those stores is clearly someone's idea of a cruel, cruel joke.

 

But back to the main topic: I say we stop at Krakow on our way to New Zealand.

 

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[Shiloh 12]

Those Swedes are smart - they make sure that you see everything! Sometimes just to be different I walk through the store backwards and I get tons of dirty looks. "Look at that guy Henry, he's going against the flow - geez!"

[Olham 164]

Well, to get back from IKEA to the Roland restoration in Krakow:

Here is what the got so far.

The Roland D.VI was a wooden construction with a planking similar of that of a boat.

(Something you would never got assembled with an IKEA construction sheet!)

 

I find her beautiful for this way of construction alone.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 9, 2011 by Olham

[Shiloh 12]

Wow Olham - that is a fantastic craft! It's unbelievable they chose wood when most everyone else was wrapping in canvas.That's one thing that really appeals to me about the Albatros.

Edited July 9, 2011 by Shiloh

[Olham 164]

Exactly my feelings, Shiloh!