I was curious as the lower wing is forward of the upper wing, same as with
a Staggerwing Beachcraft. The aircraft in your photo appears to be a Sopwith
Dolphin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Dolphin
>
> What is that aircraft in the first photo? It's definitely NOT an FE2b.
>
>>
>>My maternal grandfather served in both World Wars, mostly as a pilot,
>>but also as an engineer (from what I can gather). He worked in Iraq
>>(where he was interned during the revolution of the 1950s), Ghana and
>>India as a railway engineer after the Second World War and I last saw
>>him a couple of years before he died in 1993, just short of his 100th
>>birthday.
>>
>>I’ve started taking a (belated) interest in his career and his ancestry,
>>but it has been impossible to find out anything about his parents. So i
>>thought to check through some of his early photos for clues. I’ve
>>scanned a few and put them in a mid-March blog entry:
>>
>>http://cbimages.uk/?p=700 <http://cbimages.uk/?p=700>
>>
>>The photo of him and some young lady wearing an army tunic is a little
>>strange, but he’s not here to defend himself or his motives . . .
>>
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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