My name is Larry Folk and I would like to introduce myself and my company since Art is building the prototype of my Eindecke EIII. I have been a modeler for over 50 years and primarily fly scale.
Since 2000 I have flown competitively in scale events such as local Scale Masters qualifiers, Scale Masters Championships and Top Gun. I also have been the CD for several local scale events.

My primary business is my own architectural firm here in Ohio. For the past 30 years I have been creating all of my architectural work with a 2d cad program. About 2 years ago I decided to create some scale aircraft plans using my cad program. I soon decided that a better way was to create everything in 3d and since I had a laser machine for my architectural practice, for architectural models, I could cut my own kits.

When I attend scale events there is always the discussion about where the builders are. What I want to create are kits that have a true scale outline, easy to build and can be tackled by someone that has built and flown some ARF's but is ready for that first build. If you follow some of the build threads on the forums I think that a new builder can become very intimidated by what they see and read.

This has led to the creation of “The Historic Aircraft Modeling Company”. My process is to work from actual full scale plans or the best documentation that I can find. I work from these drawings and create all of my drawings as 3d files. From these I can export directly to the laser for cutting. Whatever we can't cut with the laser I have access to a 48”x96” CNC machine.

I decided on producing the Eindecker first as I wanted something for Dawn Patrol flying, simple to build and be an easy flier. This aircraft is 1/3 scale (135” wingspan) and is designed as a Fun Scale event type of plane. The wings slide on with a tube and to keep it simple it has ailerons and a non-flying tail. The wing has a flat bottom airfoil with a cord of 23.5”.

Here are some photos of the design done with the 3d program.

Thanks,

Larry Folk