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feroxeng
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I suppose there are a number of surviving wooden floats around. There’s definitely one at Yeovilton, once part of the Nash collection at Brooklands before the war. It belongs to a Sopwith Baby, but was not used in the recreation of N2078 as being too far gone. The photo shows it at Heathrow in December 1961 when the Nash collection was living there before most of it went to the RAF Museum. At Yeovilton a while back it was shrouded in plastic, just in case the woodworm escaped to the nearby Sea Prince.
Feroxeng.

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