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Welcome to my visitors platform.

On this website you will learn all about me - Achim Engels - and the Fokker-Team-Schordorf. My family and I devoted ourselves to discover and preserve the knowledge about German aircraft development and use up to 1920.

I follow my aim strictly and am trying to research the knowledge about the techniques used to construct aircraft of the mentioned field and to also make the results of my work available to anybody who is interested in. To reach this goal I go several ways. I develop construction drawings for full sized parts and complete reconstruction aircraft. I  also do publish our findings in form of  booklets and books. Furthermore I have recently started to collect original data documents such as works drawings, photographs and other documents into an online  archive which you can find somewhere on this website.

I do kindly invite you here to look around.

Also I would very much like to use this opportunity to point your attention to a real huge dream of mine. You could be part in helping to make it come real.

I may also set up special pages here soon which will show you some of my hobbies such as 1/48 plastic aircraft modelling, 1/35 military vehicle modelling,  scratch modelling and vehicle restoration including vintage motorcycles and cars.

 

 

Find out more about this first plane of our flying collection by clicking here

View over my very own Fokker D.VIII

View inside the workshop.

Our logo

There spins a rotary engine underneath the cowling.

View into our workshop. In the Foreground we see a Fokker D.VII fusleage frame with the lower wing being fitted. Behind this stands another D.VII and behind this one my Fokker D.VIII is visible.

 

don`t hesitate to contact me:

E-Mail: engels@fokker-team-schorndorf.de


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Fokker D.VII for sale!

Last updated on 16th of April 2006

This project currently is in the holding pattern

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Videos:

Workshop Watch November 2008 - Part 1

Workshop Watch November 2008 - Part 2

Why donīt you just watch me work?

 

 

Latest News as of  4th of December:

In the meantime the first lower wing of the Fokker D.VII reproduction is almost done. A lot of time was invested into the making of the dies to bend the main wing bracket. These are made from strong 3mm thick steel sheet. A short movie clip showing the processing of these parts cen be seen when clicking on the links above.

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The lower wing in front of our assembly shed.

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Marking the position of where the main wing mounting brackets have to go.

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And this shows where they have to fit evntually.

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To ensure that all pices fit together as desired, the fuselage was put onto the wing prior to drilling the attachment holes.

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One of our fuselage frames receive the undercarriage ball sockets.

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After cleaning with the wire brush all parts are base coated and hand painted..

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The lower wing main brackets during and after bending.

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For more information on a more daily basis, feel free to look at these online forums:

THE AERODROME FORUM => REPLICA AIRCRAFT => FTS PROJECTS

more here:

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and here

AEROCRAFT.Org

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first reconstruction

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second reconstruction

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Click here for the technical drawings developed by the team.
technical drawings

Model by Achim Engels, Tim Riley and Bil Hardenberger. Texturing and renderings by Bil Hardenberger
Project "3D-Museum"

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