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Vintage Aero Flying Wires

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imacfii

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Hwmilton New Zealand
Russ, thanks for setting the record straight. It sounds like your wires are a fantastic option.

I'm going to reach out to you regarding the matter. We have a following in New Zealand and I'd like to learn more about your product.

Nick
There is quite a bit of info on our website. We are approved by the Shuttleworth Trust in the UK, and the only approved supplier to the French Aerospace Museum at Le Bourget. We recently built a set of wires for a 1923 Potez 25, for the French Air & Space museum, some of which were over 15 feet long. The shortest wires we built were for a Sopwith Snipe, which utilizes streamline wires for fuselage bracing, Some were 11 inches long, including thread and shank.
In another interesting project we supplied a set of fuselage tie rods for an original 1916 SE5A. The center part of these wires were swaged down from 0.125 inch to 0.0995 inch, then the thread (4BA) was rolled up to .1385 in. Somewhere along the shank we found a spot to form a flat, so the tie rods could be tightened. The flats also had to be timed - that is 90deg apart. There were 104 4BA wires and 34 2BA wires. The spec was given in millimeters, between pin centers, and stated the customer wanted to see no more than 5 threads showing after the clevis and locknut were installed, and the wires tensioned.
Here's a photo.
We can also supply Carbon Steel streamline wires and tie rods if you insist, for absolute authenticity in that restoration although stainless is superior for this application in my humble opinion.
We recently supplied a set of cabane wires for aIMG_20191114_112731.jpg 1930 Focke Wulff 44 Stieglitz, the first airplane built by Kurt Tank, in 1930. Part of the wire was streamlined, part was swaged, and the swaged part was swaged down from 6mm diameter to (.235") to 4.35mm (.171") as 4.35mm diameter is half the cross sectional area of 6mm diameter. Part of the spec was in german, the balance was in french. The finished wire had a tensile strength spec of 1520kg (3344lbs). It made the spec, the client was pleased. Russ
 
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