The work on the Fokker E.III is doing great progress.

Of these three planes two are commissioned by costumers, while the "prototype" so to say, stays with me.

The two wing panels of the prototype plane are almost done. All bits and pieces for the four other panels are ready to be assembled. The plan is to have all three planes ready by the end of this year.

Wing socket for the attachment of the wings to the fuselage.

Model of the wing root to make sure the wings finally do fit into the fuselages.

One of the many welded joints in this fuselage. In this case we see the engine mount corner gusset.

Prepared bracing wires for the fuselage frame.

Attachment corner gussets for the bracing wires in the fuselage frame. These are made from 8mm steel tubings with a wall thickness of 2mm.

Alexandra securing the turnbucles with locking wires in the fuselages of the Fokker E.III

In opposite to later Fokker airplanes, these bracings on the E.III have still been of the single straint type and not the looped double bracing.

Detail of one of the secured turnbuckles.

Alexandra posing with one of the huge E.III wing panels.

Detail of the wing tip bow on the Fokker E.III

One of the undercarriage shock system swinging arms.

One of the next projects will be the reproduction of the famus Pfalz D.III biplane fighter.

After many years of research we are currently preparing the templates and master patterns for the wing ribs.

Apart from many documents, drawings, capture reports and other contemporary information , these rib patterns will be compared to actual photographs of the ribs taken for the spares pats cataloque which have been enlarged to full size. 

Only when it is secured that the profile is a sclose a copy of the original airfoil, the building will comence.

The master pattern of the lower wing ribs are compared to those of the upper wing.

Most of interest is teh S-curve at the bottom end of the airfoil, which is one of the features of this plane.