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[SHOWCASE] Share Your Biplanes and Triplanes!

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pTrevTrevs

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As my new avatar and rank show, I have developed a love for vintage planes, namely early biplanes and triplanes from WWI and before. Many of the craft I build are modeled after this style.

I haven't seen a showcase thread for this subject yet, so I decided to make one myself.

Show us your biplanes, triplanes and other early 1900s era aircraft!

Sopwith Pup:

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Bristol Boxkite (Converted into a glider)

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Can't wait to see what people decide to share! :D

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pTrevTrevs

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Alright, nice builds everyone. I know its not a bi-plane, but it is from the early 1900's, so I'm gonna attempt to build a Fokker Eindecker:

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/guns/fokker-eindecker.jpg

I will post a (Hopefully) finished build soonTM:D

This should be interesting...

Yeeeessssss...

I probably should mention that it is okay to post monoplanes here as long as they are from the prewar/WW1 era. Fokker Eindecker is a great plane to recreate, I tried to build one myself once, but I never finished.

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ghostbuzzer7

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Stock 100% electric triplane from 0.25:

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I know theres a trick that if you hold Q on the propeller and change vessels to the main craft, it gets stuck rotating still. PLEASE dont fix that squad its so helpful. Now with that photo, I feel inspired to do something similar to that because that's way more efficient than cramming engines inside.

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Scarecrow88

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If the Wright Brothers had a jet engine...

Yeah, apart from a modded lander capsule, I play stock parts which kind of limits you with regard to motive power. I would have loved to have made this prop driven, but ended up with a shock cone intake at the front that sort of looks like a spinner, and is therefore suggestive of a propeller being up front.

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Great job on all your craft everyone!

I've got one. Not based on anything in particular but it's a real sweet clean bird.

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Flies super stable. Don't even have to touch the controls and she just lifts off the runway.

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Has a small drop tank to extend the range. But if you switch the engine from the KAX rotary to the more efficient two-blade prop it'll go practically forever on a really small amount of fuel. I've flown this thing through the mountain passes west of the KSC. Lots of fun!

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And it's robust enough to survive some VERY serious damage! I scraped off all the wing surfaces on the right-hand side of the plane on one of the KSC buildings once and with the help of the reaction wheel and a little bit of luck and skill, actually managed to set it down safely!

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