Hi all,
Thank you for your kind comments.
Drew:
As this aircraft was built late in 1918 it's probable that like most RAF aircraft at that time, it was fitted with aerodynamic 'streamlined' landing and flying wires.
Therefore it would have had adjustable end fittings at both ends of each wire. As to exactly how this was configured is up for debate as, like you, I couldn't find a good photo of the pylon connections.
Fitted over wing at each side were four landing wires and under wing at each side were four 'pairs' of flying wires, which were attached to the tops of the undercarriage struts.
I started by attaching wires to holes through the struts, then routed a long single length of mono-filament up and through the wing then up to the over wing support pylon.
The line was passed through the top fitting (made from photo-etch strip) and out to the opposite wing, down through the wing and back to the undercarriage strut on that side.
There it was routed through the appropriate hole in the undercarriage strut, tensioned and secured in position.
I slid two 0.4 mm Nickel-Silver micro-tubes onto each 'individual' segment of wire as I went. These represent the wire end fittings.
Effectively a single length of line was used to represent one of a pair of under wing flying wires as well as a single over wing landing wire.
The remaining under wing flying wires were added as single lengths.
So a total of 16 under wing flying wires and 8 over wing landing wires.
It's all detailed, with illustrations etc, in the PDF build log, which will be available on my site shortly,
Mike
