Title: Review and organization of Plans
There are over 300 pages of drawings and calculations for this plane. They are all hand drawn and are in varying levels of completeness and detail. Of course, none of them are labelled and many are unidentifiable. In fact, some of the plans are definitely NOT for an airplane. Oh yeah, and to add to the mystery, any text is written in French and often in a cursive script. And let's not forget that all dimensions are in metric. I spent many hours reviewing them, identifying them when possible and sorting them into different folders. I created about 20 different folders and many more subfolders to sort them all. There's one folder called Unknown. I'm hoping that as I dig into the plane more, I'll be able to recognize more of it and identify the remaining drawings. A lot of the drawings are for the machinists who built these beautiful parts. Few drawings are how the plane went together. Below are some samples. All of these plans were provided by Christophe who is interested in the Dalotel. In Christophe's words, "Being a bit familiar with the DM165 history, I was interested in following the restauration of this unique aerobatic aircraft. When he (Ray) mentioned to me that he didn't have much materials to support his work, I inquired a friends of mine who the head of a aviation museum in France, mostly dedicated to french sport planes and gliders, and which preserve a lot of incredible archives. Amazingly, the museum just received all the documentation about the DM165 owned by Dalotel's family, including the drawings. This is how I got these and passed them on to Ray."


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