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Default RE: Pfalz DIII resources -- Photos, Drawings, Plans, etc.

The actual translation of "Wickel-rumpf" is "wicker (as in basket)-fuselage." This techique appears to have originated with the people at Roland and was taught to the Pfalz people when they were doing licenced production of the Roland DII. It was said to be very lightweight and strong but was subject to twisting warps in wet field conditions.

Cold molding is something entirely different than "lofting" which has something to do with calculating the shape of intermediate shape of a curve between formers. So on a curved hull (as on a curved fuselage) the line between to formers is not straight.

If I ever get around to starting on this project, I think I would plan on producing a slightly undersized male mold (of each half) made of glassed foam and then using the techniques that Seth describes (which are very close to the construction described in the Flugsport article).