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| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 06-Mar-17 19:29 |  | | Views : 352 | | Test fitting of the sitting pilot and sitting gunner/observer. Still trying to figure out how to attach the gun to the support ring ... ? Maybe a standing gunner with arms to the handle of the machine gun and a longer - legged support ring ... ? |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 06-Mar-17 19:22 |  | | Views : 378 | | Test positioning of Rear Gunner, Machine Gun Support Ring, and Machine Gun held in position temporarilly, with a pin.. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 04-Mar-17 21:37 |  | | Views : 409 | | Here is a better pic of the Instrument Panels for my two seater BE2e. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 04-Mar-17 12:09 |  | | Views : 373 | | Photo of two instrument panels glued to file folder cardboard, for the front and rear cockpits of my BE2e. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 04-Mar-17 12:05 |  | | Views : 421 | | 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 | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 04-Mar-17 12:02 |  | | Views : 427 | | Pilot and toothpics are glued to the mounting plug. |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 04-Mar-17 12:01 |  | | Views : 402 | | 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 | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 09-Feb-17 10:41 |  | | Views : 442 | | Actual Aerial Reconnaissance Camera used by the RFC. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 09-Feb-17 10:36 |  | | Views : 365 | | 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 | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 09-Feb-17 10:28 |  | | Views : 411 | | 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 | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 09-Feb-17 10:13 |  | | Views : 412 | | 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 | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 09-Feb-17 10:08 |  | | Views : 436 | | 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. |
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