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By: 26th July 2014 at 07:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Nice story.
By: 26th July 2014 at 09:29 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Yikes ,that landing strip looks narrow,nice plane.
By: 26th July 2014 at 18:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-If he's got the money, skill and space to do it fair play to him I say. I hope he enjoys many happy hours aviating from his garden. Far less chance of being injured getting from home to the airfield that way.
By: 26th July 2014 at 22:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Looks like one of the Robert Baslee/Grass Strip Aviation Eindeckers.
By: 27th July 2014 at 03:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-According to the report in the paper this week it is. Quoted as costing him 12k to build but I'm guessing that is just the cost of the airframe kit. I imagine that you can add the cost of engine, instruments (few as they are) and covering.
By: 27th July 2014 at 11:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Nice link, thanks. He's one lucky (and well-off) guy!
Quick q: is the Eindecker full-scale? If so I hadn't appreciated how tiny they were!
By: 27th July 2014 at 12:03 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I was also wondering on the scale of it but i too just thought maybe they were that small.
By: 27th July 2014 at 14:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-It's like a fun scale, between 3/4 and 5/8ths of full size. It is indeed an airdrome replica, know the chap well, my workshop used to be about 500 yards from this strip and he used to pop in regularly with the machine! Great little project
Fb
By: 27th July 2014 at 15:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-If you're in the UK, you can easily see the only surviving original Fokker E.I Eindekker hanging in the Science Museum, South Ken. An oft overlooked treasure.
By: 27th July 2014 at 15:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Seeing as we have had it nearly 100 years -maybe it could be sent back to it's original owner !
By: 27th July 2014 at 15:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Kaiser Bill?
By: 27th July 2014 at 16:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A retired dentist friend is building a full-scale Sopwith Pup with an original engine.
And he's building it in his garden...of sorts...he has a hangar next to his home in a "fly-in" community.
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By: SqL Scramble. - 25th July 2014 at 12:29
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10990313/Retired-pilot-builds-WW1-plane-and-runway-in-garden.html
Sorry if it's a repost.