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    Wanted to buy PSRU redrive?

    Does anyone else have one for sale???
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    Albatros D5a Project

    Craned down to the road from 20m up my hill...now relocated to a new and flatter site.
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    Albatros D5a Project

    My bird is now on her legs awaiting a house move to a nice big shed, which i have to build! I like your little version of the d5a, very tidy! I hunted around trying to find more info about your project yonks ago but without success. The NASM book used data drawings created by Bob Waugh and...
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    Albatros D5a Project

    I have yet to weigh the fuselage, but with the lower wing attachment points sitting on the support frame I can lift the tail up with 2 fingers... Craig, re you PM, reply sent.
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    Albatros D5a Project

    Gday "Ptairco". I'm still baffled how you get that plywood into what at least looks like compound curves. For the most part the curves are just a sheet bent around the formers, while they do taper in side and top planes they are not compound as such. The scarfs (front and rear) are where the...
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    Albatros D5a Project

    Something like this? The scarfs generally dont sit over a bulkhead frame but behind it so as to assist with the curve of the fuselage. Originally it was done using big jigs but I found it can be done skin by skin if you are "rat cunning"...which apparently I am! I did make a whole side as an...
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    Albatros D5a Project

    Ive spent 7 years making trips to Canberra where the only non rebuilt albatros resides making books of drawings etc so as to bring one of my own to life. So, no plans per se, just lots of measurements that seem to generally agree with each other.... Im hoping to be done in 2 years time but that...
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    Gday

    Gday from Oz Im building a ww1 Albatros D5a, and only discovered this site this morning! So here I am. Cheers Chris
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    Albatros D5a Project

    Its a bit hard to get decent photos in my shed...
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    Albatros D5a Project

    Ive been working on this for a while now...
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