A BONNY BIPLANE

摘要

Some years ago, during a visit to Scotland's National Museum of Flight at East Fortune in East Lothian, I came across a group of senior gentlemen busily hand-building components for a World War One aircraft. We chatted briefly and I admired their handiwork before continuing to explore the rest of the attraction. I was therefore intrigued on recently reading an article in The Sunday Times about this self-same group, the Aviation Preservation Society of Scotland (APSS). It turned out that the aircraft in question was a reproduction Sopwith IV2 Strutter, which is now nearing completion after some 20 years of dogged effort from this dedicated band of enthusiasts. The intention is to make it airworthy.