Alan, thank for the info. I have the Wylam DIII drawings but they may be different from the "masterset' you refer to. From the research I've done it seems like Wylam got most of his information from the 1919 examination of a Pfalz reported on in the British journal flight and then subsequently published (in German with a revised text) in Flugsport. At the time that Wylam did his drawings, I believe that they represented the "best scholarship of the day." However, more recent investigations suggest that the Wylam drawings (like most of his other drawings) contain a number of small inaccuracies. For example, I've read that the curve of the nose "chin" on the Wylam Pfalz drawings may not be quite right and that the number of ribs in the upper wing is off by a couple. Some have also said that most of the interior (including former cutouts) may be mostly "informed fantasy."

At any rate, your plans look to me to be the closest to the Flugsport sketches -- which makes sense if you based your plans on the Wylam drawings and he based his drawings on the Flugsport sketches. Some of the "sketches" on the Wylam drawings, by the way, are EXACT reproductions of the anonomous Flugsport sketches. As a research scholar myself I find it a bit odd that he didn't acknowledge this. As I mentioned earlier in this thread I'd probably base my own build directly on the Flugsport drawings (essentially taking the "miniature replica" approach) and then fill in the gaps with info from the Wylam drawings and look for pracrtical ideas on RC implimentation from you plans.

Seth Hunter's amazing Pfalz DIIIa is about as close to the miniature flying replica as I've seen so far -- going so far as to include authentic half-shell molded wickelrumpf construction.