You’re absolutely right, Chris.
I wrote that because he was flying FE2b aircraft at the time on a training unit
and I have a feeling that he was just having a photo taken next to a more
modern beast, the DH5.
There weren’t many aircraft with a “negative stagger” but it took me a while to
work out what it was, and I explained that here:
https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2686208092487549304
<https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2686208092487549304>
Thanks for looking
Chris
> On 12 Apr 2020, at 17:39, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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