Leisure Sport Flying Circus-Where now?

The fuselage of the DVIII is twisted and fairly corroded at the front .From memory It was a fatal so I didn’t want to delve any further .I have some pictures of the fuse but they are not for circulation.

I was under that impresiom also which is why i was suprised that it was still about. Best left alone.

Camel update…….the aeroplane is currently in the main hangar at Bodmin and from what I can gather has been rebuilt by Ernie Hoblyn (he of the Sopwith Triplane replica) and it will be re-assembled, test flown and based there for the Winter. Believe at some stage the aeroplane will return to Watchford Farm in East Devon, where the triplane lives.

Still unsure as to its identity.

Martin

The fuselage of the DVIII is twisted and fairly corroded at the front .From memory It was a fatal so I didn’t want to delve any further .I have some pictures of the fuse but they are not for circulation.

Sorry for not knowing, but which is your local airfield? Could it be the PPS Camel? Who owns the remains of the DVIII, do you know what its registration is? I must admit to be supprised that it still exist’s!! Is it in a very bad state?

As the remarks made to me about the Camel are a little on the weird side, I will make some phone calls this afternoon to ascertain what is going on before I disclose where this airframe is. As to the DVIII, dont know anymore than what I have said earlier. Wing is half broken with ribs and stringers showing and fuselage is complete with broken fabric. No undercarriage or tail feathers.

Martin

Sorry for not knowing, but which is your local airfield? Could it be the PPS Camel? Who owns the remains of the DVIII, do you know what its registration is? I must admit to be supprised that it still exist’s!! Is it in a very bad state?

Umm I forgot about the fuselage (probably had my head in the clouds as per usual or so I’m told). Good news to hear about the Sopwith Baby, but havent been down to Lands End for years, well not since they started charging to go and see it.

At my local airfield the other day, at the back of the hangar was a Sopwith Pup/Camel replica with a Scarab radial. This was in pieces and as I go there often it wasn’t something that I was expecting to see. When I was asked about it I was told ‘there was nothing in the back of the hangar’. The plot thickens……..

Well try and find out more and report back to the forum.

Martin

The fuselage of the Fokker DVIII was at Lands End two years ago when I had a wander around .Within the Lands End experience is a Sopwith Baby which was moored on the lake at Chertsey.

you are correct, a new Replica is being built by the son of the Pilot Bill Hosie, i belive the son is also called Bill See here for details www.supermaineseaplane.co.uk

The son is indeed called Bill. I used to fly a lot with Bill Senior in his Skybolt and Lunar Rocket (only plane I’ve been sick in!). He was a lovely man.

Martin

The wing (or what remains of it) of the Fokker D8 is still hanging up in the main hangar at Lands End where the majority of the replicas were built by Viv Bellamy.

When I was a lad(!), for my first vintage aeroplane flight which was in the Chrislea Super Ace AKVF, we went down to Lands End to have a look at all the stored replicas. From what I can remember the Albacore was being built in an adjoining shed.

According to my logbook that was September 1985.

Martin

Was’nt going to! 😉

Wouldn’t worry about it 😉

BU***R!!

You missed out the ‘r’ in Supermarine 😉

you are correct, a new Replica is being built by the son of the Pilot Bill Hosie, i belive the son is also called Bill See here for details www.supermaineseaplane.co.uk

I thought the S5 replica was written off?

I remember reading something about a new S5 replica being planned by the pilot’s son (I think), however.

I Belive that there was also a Nieuport, think it was a 24. This crashed at North Weald killing Tony Harrold.

Many thanks Melvyn. Perhaps the Camels should be revived, especially if G-ASOP is deemed to be anything like as valuable as the owner thinks it is.

The SPAD, which is nothing like a SPAD and was not that nice to fly according to the article in Flypast issue 2 or 3, is hanging in the ‘American Architecture and badly suspended Aircraft Museum’ at Duxford.

The Clerget Camel is at Brooklands and the Warner one is in Yeovilton. Also there is the Albatross that was there (ranger engine, tons of lead on the engine frame) and I think the DVII went to Italy.

The DH2 is nothing like a DH2. Viv Bellamy made it and he told me that it was a set of spare Camel wings bodged to be a DH2.