Butch's D.VII Maiden Flight

The maiden flight of Butch Witlock's Fokker D.VII Airdrome Aeroplane kit plane. Designed by Robert Baslee. Filmed at the 2009 Gathering of Eagles in Gardner, Kansas. The power plant is a Valley Engineering 2280CC VW with a 2.2:1 gear reduction and a 84X50 Culver prop. Tested piloted by Harvey Cleveland.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Fokker
• D.VII
• D-VII
• DVII
• D7
• flight
• Gathering
• Gardner
• Baslee
• Airdrome
• Kit plane
• WWI
• Butch

[GNiessen]

Harvey is sure sitting high in the seat on this one. Is it setup for a shorter pilot? Or is he sitting on a cushion?

[Mudcruncher]

What is it covered in? The lozenge looks very good!

[noversibirsk]

wow ailerons look sensitive, wonderful plane!

[ChicaWolverina]

Oh god is that thing ugly... even a stand off scale RC is better scale than this duck.

[603mac]

Vertical take off DVII!!!!  Amazing.

[pisstank07]

wat about glasses , and some good closes on , no flys and shit in the face ????

[easyeagle2]

Yes, definitely not original horsepower or propeller design. A beautiful plane non-the-less. Also, It has to be structurally built much better than the original design.

[FhjNelson]

can sb. tell me how much HP is in there? THAT THING GOES UP LIKE HELL!!!

[riflelord2]

how much are these kits and do they come in 1/1 scale? or just 3/4?

[NDulge1]

SWEET! ! ! and notice kids I didn't need to envoke the "A" word.