Sounds like BS: there is a Walter Mitty type on WIX who claims to be a film producer. No idea what these folks get out of it though.

Apologies: no it can’t.

:eagerness:

But still deeply impressive to witness.

One at left has a 6A section reference, which I’d suggest puts it later than WW1.

Wire, wood or plastic?

Maybe that hangar is full of hangers? Can’t see from the photo :eagerness:

On a more serious note I hope that a museum can rescue it: these are indeed fast-disappearing.

IIRC Art Nalls already has one flying?

Other differences include the starters. Mk1 Avpin and cartridge, MK 3 LP air.

Spoilt on Mk.2: all-electric 🙂

I’m currently reading Martin Gilbert’s excellent one-volume biography of Winston Churchill.

Early in the book it mentions his pre-WWI flying lessons and the fact one of his instructor who was killed in a crash of one of Churchill’s usual trainers.
Later, another if his instructors was killed.
Any records of the types involved?

He had associations with Sopwith/ Brooklands and I recall mentions in Bruce Robertson’s book, but possibly elsewhere too: the recent Pemberton-Billing book maybe?

Was it Black or Blue that went to Iran? I recall seeing them in the background of an unrelated RAFM photo and was slightly surprised that they’d ventured that far.