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Apprenticed toolmaker then joined the RAF - served 27years - then worked in the military aerospace industry as a technical author and editor for 20 years - retired 2016. Live in Lincolnshire, UK.

Hi all,Sopwith 5F.1 ‘Dolphin’, Serial No:...

Hi all, Sopwith 5F.1 ‘Dolphin’, Serial No: C4131 of No.79 Squadron RAF during June 1918. As usual there's a fully detailed build log in Adobe PDF format which can be downloaded from my website. Click on the PDF icon on the 'Logs' page [...]

1:32nd scale Lloyd C.V

Hi all, On October the 4th, 1917, Feldpilot (Zugsfuhrer) Adolph Wiltsch and his Observer Roman Schmidt were flying Lloyd C.V Serial No: 46.01 from Flik 13 on the Russian Front. They were attacked by three Russian ‘Sopwith’ type [...]