Just curious, what size wood are you using for your fuselage sides?  Making good progress!

This is the idea for the wing construction...laminated 1/8"x1/16" for the LE...1/16" sq laminated for the TE...cracked 1/16"sq for the ribs and spar.  Bottom wing to be constructed similarly...in fact, bottom wing planform is same basic shape and size (shorter) as top wing...excepting ailerons, that is.

Here's a reference book I've had on the shelf for years...and a rare pic of the observer's Parabellum up above.  Wouldn't that be a fun place to be while a pilot (in the rear cockpit) suddenly took evasive action.    Brave souls all.

Neal

Great find Neal!

Mike

Enter the “Flying Banana,” the pioneering design DFW B-1.  It was actually a quite successful pre-WWI design by the Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke that utilized a steel tube fuselage…later changed to plywood skinned.  It’s pre-war designation was DFW MD 14, pressed into military service and changed to B-1, denoting an unarmed two-seat observation class biplane.  The nickname “Flying Banana” was derived from the crescent-plan form three-bay wings.  For me, it resembles a giant moth.  By mid-1915 it was retired to training duties in favor of DFW C-class designs, armed with a standard configuration observer/machinegun.

Alas, no plan…at least none that I encountered.  So to locate a descent 3-view…and from that, create a plan.  This is an aircraft with a big wing…so the build is mostly…wing.  I’ve chosen to build a 16” ws…which means the fuselage is basically peanut-scale size, in keeping with my approach to storage area conservation.  This is NOT really a dimer...but in the interest of attempting to "soothe the savage beast..." got to find a roost.

Unusual airplane….

Neal