{"id":2097,"date":"2009-06-30T00:34:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T00:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-06-30T00:34:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T00:34:33","slug":"fokker-d-7-project-making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/kermit-weeks\/fokker-d-7-project-making-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Fokker D-7 Project making Progress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-561 colorbox-2097\" title=\"downsized\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/downsized.JPG\" alt=\"downsized\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/>Several years ago I sent three WWI Mercedes engines down to my friend Peter Jackson in New Zealand. \u00a0He had been looking for something to copy and couldn&#8217;t find one anywhere. \u00a0We cut a deal to get them all running as well as use them to help Peter \u00a0remanufacture new ones! \u00a0Last summer, while in NZ I got to watch my first one running on a test stand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-562 colorbox-2097\" title=\"Fokker D-7 d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Fokker-D-7-d-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Fokker D-7 d\" width=\"573\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course we are very excited about putting one in an airplane and have since contracted with Fred Murrin in Pennsylvania to build us a Fokker D-7 airframe. \u00a0Attached is a recent picture of the finished wings. \u00a0The fuselage frame is welded up and many of the small parts are currently being fabricated. \u00a0We will finish off the final details of airframe at Fantasy of Flight including &#8211; installing the engine, instruments, fabric covering, and paint. \u00a0We are looking forward to having a very accurate example flying one day.<\/p>\n<p>Kermit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I sent three WWI Mercedes engines down to my friend Peter Jackson in New Zealand. \u00a0He had been looking for something to copy and couldn&#8217;t find one anywhere. \u00a0We cut a deal\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fokker-d-7","category-kermit-weeks","fokker-d-7-project-making-progress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}