sfabert

The Pics posted at Thirdwire do not show a fully illuminated underside. The shadow is too much contrast to be able to judge the contour of the underside. The pics that are currently posted do not look at all abnormal, other than having unusually dark shadows (typical for sunlit scenes in FE). The 3-view plans for the DIII are readily available, and I see no reason to assume tha they were not followed just as closely as similar plans for other machines.

Plans for the EI are on their way to you via email.

I can provide scale plans for each of the variants, together with a short description of the mechanical and detail differences.

Your model looks very good, an excellent French N17. Any changes to the wingtips would be minor, but I will gladly send you a set of plans if you give me an email address.

I will be happy to provide scale plans for each variant of the Nieuport series for any modeler who needs them, along with a short explanation of the visible differences between the types. Just send me a private message with your email address. The position of the Vickers gun is not the same for the 17 as for the later types. Different synchronization gear was used on later types, which required the relocation of the gun to the right. On the 17 it was centered. Ailerons changed from straight trailing edge to curved between the 17bis model and the 23bis. Both N24 and N24bis had rounded trailing edges on the ailerons. N17bis had the same wings and tail as the 17, but used the fuselage of the 24, with a shorter engine cowling.

All N17 machines flown by the RFC had Lewis guns, not Vickers guns. Only French units kept the Vickers guns in place. Some machines flown by French or American pilots had one of each.

I can supply scale plans for just about any WWI type. Anyone working on a model who needs a set of plans, please send me a private message.

Cocking handles on the Vickers guns would have been on the fuselage side. They were too small to see from the angles you have available ingame.

The data in this table is incomplete. and does not refer to the N28 at all. The N27 was a very different airplane from the N28.

I have a substantial personal library of WWI aviation books, some technical, most historical. Please let me know what info you need, and I can probably dig it out.

The most frequently cited performance numbers are time to climb, not rate of climb. Lamberton's "Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War" gives 5 min 30 sec to reach 6500 feet; 9 min even to reach 9800 feet; 14 min even to reach 13,100 feet; and 21 min 15 sec to reach 16,400 feet. Absolute ceiling given as 20,000 feet. These are one time only test numbers that no doubt varied a lot from one machine to another. "Your mileage may vary".

Yes, the engines in WWI aircraft that had a radial piston layout were almost all rotary types, where the prop was fixed to the engine and the whole lot rotated around a fixed crankshaft. Your model is very beautiful and properly captures the elegance of the N28. If you can just get the engine to spin along with the prop it will be externally perfect, so far as my preferences for detail require.

Did you plan to leave the engine stationary, or will there be a later modification to make it rotate with the prop like the engine did on the real N28?

File Name: Pfalz DIII early factory skin File Submitter: sfabert File Submitted: 14 Jan 2007 File Updated: 15 Jan 2007 File Category: SF WW1 Aircraft Skins A plain and simple silbergrau factory finish for the Pfalz DIII. The skin is a modified version of the stock skins that accompany the plane file from Radek Navratil. Thanks go to SFP1 Development A-Team for permission to distribute this enhancement to their file. Click here to download this file