Thanks to John Pothecary for the use of two photos from his Redwing archive, showing G-ABMF being dismantled by Bill Sparrow and Ben Heron following a forced landing between Great West Aerodrome and Christchurch, probably on 31.1.39. Clearly a bonus day for ornithologists with a Redwing, Sparrow and Heron together in the same shot!

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Robinson Redwing - СШАUSA - 1930

From Ray Sturtivant, busily editing Sopwith Pup records and sorting photos for a future Air-Britain tome, comes this shot of a mobility-impaired Japanese biplane that certainly looks like a Pup. At first it appeared to be J-TETX but some edges on the print are slightly blurred and a study of Archive's Japanese Register 1919-45 reveals that J-TETV was a Mizuta Toku 2 (Toku = Special) with an 80 hp Le Rhone. Registered to K Mizuta, its CofA was dated 9.22 and it is thought to have crashed at Wakamatsu, Kyushu in 1923. The entry adds "also listed as a Sopwith Pup and may be a modified example". So the photo must be of J-TETV, in any case J-TETX was a Nakajima 5, a very different machine, but does anyone know anything about this aircraft or the modifications involved?

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Sopwith Pup - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1916