Yeovilton Pup

[Trackpad]

Hi, Everyone,

On my recent visit to the UK, I went to the FAA Museum at Yeovilton and came across a naval Sopwith Pup there. It is a replica, but it looks convincingly real to me! It's history, as provided on the FAA Museum website, is as follows:

Built by EMK Aircraft (Skysport Engineering)

12/04/1983 - first flight at Old Warden as G-BIAU
07/1983 - noted at Cranfield Airshow
01/08/1983 - by now at the Whitehall Theatre of War
10/06/1985 - arrived at FAAM after being bought at auction
13/09/1989 - Certificate of Airworthiness expired

I brought back these photos for the Forum:













I hope that these photos will assist any Forumite building a naval Pup. Good luck with any and all future builds of this nature! 

[rhallinger]

Greatr photos Gary!  Thanks.   It is interesting to see that the fabric outline of the forward fuselage cross-framework is stained dark on one side and remains lighter than the base color on the other.  Fascinating.

Regards,

Bob

[Jacek]

Thank you for the great pictures !

Jacek

[Des]

Excellent photos Gary, thank you for posting them here, they will be very useful to anyone building a Naval Pup.

Des.

[pepperman42]

Great looking replica. She obviously flew with the same characteristics of the real thing so the weathering etc is great reference. Thanks for these!!

Steve

[Zabu]

Very nice, thanks for the pics Gary.

Cheers

[Ernie]

Really helpful photos, Gary.  Thanks a lot for posting!

Cheers,
Ernie

[Trackpad]

Hi, All,

You are all most welcome. I hope these help a bit!