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| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38066 | 04 Mar 17 12:05 |
I also made a machine gun Support Ring from a white plastic "BONE GUARD" button disc, that they attach on HAM bones so that the sharp edges do not cut the plastic wrapping. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38065 | 04 Mar 17 12:02 |
Pilot and toothpics are glued to the mounting plug. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38064 | 04 Mar 17 12:01 |
Sure enough, the two pilots will not fit through the cockpit covers of my Be2e after all that work - had to narrow the shoulders and make a balsa plug for mounting. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 37949 | 09 Feb 17 11:18 |
| The engine cylinders were first covered, on the sides and tops, with Compliments Coffee jar, shinny brass, "freshness seals", the tops of the cylinders all have four bolt heads each, made from "dressmaker's pins", and the cylinders were then "double wrapped" (the old trick), with shiny coated wire, and then one of the two wires was then removed. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37959 | 09 Feb 17 10:41 |
Actual Aerial Reconnaissance Camera used by the RFC. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37958 | 09 Feb 17 10:36 |
Armament was one Vickers .303" (7 mm) machine gun on lower left side of fuse, and a .303" (7 mm) Lewis machine gun for the Observer in the rear cockpit. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37957 | 09 Feb 17 10:28 |
The engine was 70 HP Air-cooled, 90 degree Renault V8 RAF 1a - 72 mph - , and a "scimitar" bladed 4 blade prop (this is a hand carved 2 piece 4 blade balsa prop), and a plate glass slate Camera for the Observer in the rear cockpit (left side of pic on fuse bottoom) - the plane's notorious stability actually helped in its artillery observation and aerial photography duties. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37956 | 09 Feb 17 10:13 |
Its "Nemesis" was the German Fokker EIII Eindecker, hence the term for the BE2e - "Fokker Fodder", and the German nickname - "Kaltes Fleisch" (Cold Meat). |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37955 | 09 Feb 17 10:08 |
The RFC (Royal Flying Corp) suffered mounting casualties, for want of a better replacement, and the BE2e was belatedly withdrawn from front line combat service in 1917. 3,500 BE2e a/c were built. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37954 | 09 Feb 17 10:02 |
It entered service in 1916 and remained in service long after it was obsolete, being outclassed by the German Albatross and Halberstadt Scouts. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37953 | 09 Feb 17 09:58 |
It was mainly used for Photo Reconnaissance, with a secondary role as a night and day bomber. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37952 | 09 Feb 17 09:26 |
Nicknamed "The QUIRK", this plane has "character" ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37951 | 09 Feb 17 09:23 |
Two seat tendem, WW1, high-wing Biplane Reconnaissance light bomber - an early British workhorse. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37950 | 09 Feb 17 09:17 |
RAF BE2e (RAF = Royal Aircraft Factory), (BE = Bleriot Experimental [as in Louis Bleriot]), built by Geoffery DeHavilland |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37949 | 09 Feb 17 09:07 |
BE2e - kit DPCM 119, http://dpcmodels.homestead.com/ , laser cut, $20, wingspan 22", scale 1:20, weight 33 grams, completed May 29, 2014 |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 37948 | 09 Feb 17 09:00 |
RAF BE2e |
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