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Post war (c1923) Fokker D.VII fabric coverings


Chuck1945

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I am about to start one of the Eduard 1/72 Fokker D.VII kits. Eduard includes decals for the cockpit area sides with the lozenge pattern as used on WWI era Fokkers. Am I correct in thinking that one operated in 1923 would have had the fabric replaced, probably several times, after initial construction so that the interior would no no longer be the inside surface of the original lozenge fabric? Also thinking the painted camouflage exterior would have covered any rib tapes?

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If this is one of the U.S.M.C. Fokkers, they were certainly recovered.

 

If this is a Dutch machine, certainly.

 

If it is something out of the new or ephemeral East European states, hard to say. It certainly ought to have been recovered, but the craft knowledge and organization to get materials can't be assumed. Recovering wings is more important by far than recovering the fuselage when that's of welded tube,

so if things were scarce, fuselages might be left as is while wings were recovered.

 

There are, by the way, some very odd Dutch Fokker D.VIIs. Several with the navy got close-cowled noses, looking very like the front end of an Austro-Hungarian Albatross. Fokker D.VIIs in the East Indies had Puma engines, and an oval radiator in front.

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