I'm a 173rd guy though so I'd love to see the 335th AHC 'Cowboys' or 'Casper' Platoon hueys. I need at least one 174th AHC 'Sharks' Huey. Click on the image to go to the walkaround page of this rare reproduction. Yea I can't wait until JSI does them again. It's a squat, purposeful looking machine and owing to its earlier siblings superiority over its Allied contemporaries - the D III was simply better than its opposition in early 1916 and was the first German biplane scout to be fitted with a synchronised forward firing machine gun, it is a pity that the D IV wasn't built in numbers and able to prove itself, although appearing in 1917, the infamous R.A.F S.E.5a, Sopwith Camel and Spad XIII were its contemporaries - a tall order to match. The characteristic vertical stays fitted in front of the rudder - there being no fixed fin, is missing from the D IV and unlike its siblings, the latter 's ailerons were actuated by push rods, prominently mounted vertically forward of the cockpit. It was a single bay biplane, as opposed to the two bays of the D III and had a neatly cowled upright engine with a small spinner, although this is missing from the reproduction. Radio Controlled (RC) Warbird Airplanes Our RC Warbirds give pilots the chance to relive history by flying models of aircraft operated by US, British, German, Japanese and Russian militaries during WWII and other periods. Of what might be called mixed media construction today, it had a welded steel tube frame, with a fuselage covered in plywood skinning and wings of wood and fabric in traditional style.
Nevertheless, it retains a few of the quirky features that distinguished the originals from their D III predecessors, which were mass produced. The repro looks the part, but betrays its modern origins, disc brakes, a prominent oil cooler and a ground adjustable tab on the elevator. It's an aeroplane I've not bothered to examine in depth in the past, but that changed during my last visit to the AHC, when I decided to devote time to a walkaround of it. This modern flying reproduction of the ultra rare Halberstadt D IV, of which only three were built, sits incongruously in a corner of the darkened Aviation Heritage Centre, lit by spots, which makes it quite difficult to photograph.
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