Watching this guy start a 100 year old plane, it stated the first kick after he went through his starting regiment. At the nationalwarpla... The National Warplane Museum 3489 Big Tree Lane - Geneseo, NY (585) 243-2100
It wasn't the torque. Torque in propeller driven aircraft comes from the down swinging blade at higher angles of attack. It's taking more of a bite where the up-swinging blade is not. The rotary engine suffered from gyroscopic precession from the rotating mass. Like hanging on to the axles of a bicycle wheel while someone spins it
It's a replica. "320 Fokker Dr.Is were built (and 171 went into combat service), only three of them survived the war. They were all destroyed later, and only fragments of them remain on display in museums. The only Fokker triplanes still flying today are replicas inspired by the original"
I have a 1/3 scale DR1 my dad was working on before he passed.. I will finish it for him one day,it was destined to be a museum piece... every detail right down to the rudder pedals and how many bolts are in the working laminated tail skid. He has several planes in the Curtis museum in Hammondsport. He also was a member of that. He lived and breathed WW1 & WW2 airplanes. Didn’t realize you were an airplane fan @KevinWillard
It is a replica. No original Dreideckers survive today. All surviving original WWI aircraft are very rare in general, but exceptionally few original German WWI aircraft of any type still exist at all, due to stipulations of the Treaty of Versailles that demanded German military equipment be destroyed or dismantled in order to prevent any future escalations of hostilities. At the Chamblin Fighter Museum, I did see an original Aviatik fighter that had escaped destruction, having been disguised as a civilian airplane, then hidden away at a remote airfield until discovered years later.
My dad was a member of HAG... he got a flight on W-7 at Geneseo (their DC-3 or C-47) my dad used to drive the follow me truck, planes followed him to their spot! He always said “if it doesn’t have multiple wings and a round engine it ain’t an airplane” that Fokker triplane definitely qualifies!! It must have been up from Rhinbeck aerodrome ?
Everyone knows this isn't a real DR-1 but fun fact, DR-I engines couldn't idle; they were wide open all the time and were 'throttled' using the ignition switch.
If you like WWI vintage airplanes, you can still see one of the rotary engine DR-1's flying at the Cole Palin collection, Old Rhinebeck, NY. It's well worth the trip there to see the old planes and smell the sweet smell of castor oil lubricant in the air. 🐱
