Here is a bit of fun by request.. ". . .Hey Stephen whats this about you being involved with the building of a replica Fok. E.V / D.VIII?. . ."
Here it is in June of 2004 when we purchased the framing


This is her taken today March 1, 2008




It is based on this painting.

What a beauty !

//Peter

Good job. Any projected date for the maiden flight ?

Thanks p3terF & calvin2000;

The maiden flight is scheduled "Officially" for May 17 2008. I'll keep you posted. Anyone who is in the area please feel welcome to drop by. Just say you heard it on Aeroscale!

what airfield are you guys at I work out at DIA

Zoom

Then you are not very far at all. Go north on 76 past Brighton to Hudson. Take the first (and only) exit. Go leeft and travel due west about 1 mile. Right on cty rd 41 and travel north about 1 mile. Turn left at the WWI Vintage Aero (white coloured ) and Airport (green cloured ) signs- dirt and gravel road . Travel left (due west again) about 1/2 mile and left at the first and only farm hous at the 4 way stop. Travel south about 3/4 mile past the airport to the two hangars at the end of the cultisack. Thats us.

The maiden flight is scheduled "Officially" for May 17 2008.

Go to, http://lafayettefoundation.org and check out the side tabs.
or Google
"Lafayette Foundation"

7507 39 County rd. Ft. Lupton CO. 80621- 8515 (snail mail location / postal route)

303 668 8044

Further word on the current set of wheels: In the first image the wheels were original to the purchase . But we have all of our wheels built by Woody's Wheel Works here in Denver. Woody knows what he is doing and what type of cross loads will be put on the wheels. With the conntenintal we needed a set that could take the load.

More on the wing: You may not see what we have done additionally to the surface. When R. Platz and an mild mannered fellow wingnut got together the legendary wing was brought from the dark mists of yore and thrust onto the pages of modern history. Something akin to the fabled sword being pulled from the stone. If we were to streak the wing, we would have to leave the wood bare, to stain it. Which was okay for an airframe of WWI, where the service life was about 1 -3 months. But we expect to get years out of our wing before we need to do any repairs to it. So after building it we covered it in fabric. rather than paint and streak this covering like Fokker did on his fabric covered airframes of late 1917 - early 1918. We went with the solid colour to give it a uniform surface and keep the costs down.

I certainly hope I can make the maiden flight. I do enjoy these old style aircraft. Much more personality than the bus's I work on... But then time March's on..

I'll save any Aeroscale member a front row seat.

Hi Stephen,

Any chances that you can post video so that those of us who can't be there can still watch?

Mark

Greetings Mark:

Just check the website http://www.lafayettefoundation.org/videos.html after May 17 we have free download videos of our aircraft offered there.

Very colourful , a few years back i pick up the Dragon kit at a flea market that someone
had started it . not in good shape at all . however i will do that kit with this colourful makings .
I look forward to the video . All the best

Today is the day!

This works out great , was just at the hobby shop and Ed had the Battle Axe kit . Might have to use this kit instead for the markings ! Decisions , decisions ........................

The day arrived and at 1123 AM Mtn standard time she flew like a dream.

Here are a couple more.

Thank-you Stephen for the woundful photo's of a magnificent aircraft .

Yes Stephen , great photos and I'd love to take it for a ride All I need to do is learn to fly Bob

Achim Engels replica Fokker D.VIII is shining very bright these days.

click here.