Scottish 1½ Strutter replica flies

On 23 November the Aircraft Preservation Society of Scotland announced the successful, official maiden flight of its Sopwith 1½ Strutter replica, ‘F2211’/G-CMDN, at RAF Kirknewton, West Lothian, the home of No 661 Volunteer Gliding Squadron. Twenty-four years after construction began, Tim Raynor, a Light Aircraft Association inspector, was at the controls of the two-seat biplane. The APSS Sopwith 1½ Strutter replica, panted as Sqn Cdr Richard Bell-Davies’s F2211, undergoing fettling at RAF Kirknewton, West Lothian. APSSThe APSS was formed in