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WarrenD · 25 February 2005, 04:14 PM

Gilles,
A question: What makes you say that they were clear doped linen, and not aluminum doped? To the best of my knowledge, and according to folks at the Memorial Flight in France, current thinking is that "most" of the Sopwith 1.5 Strutters were alu-doped. (But not all!) After I found this out, I went back in my datafiles and other books, and I can see where a great many/most could certainly have been silver.

Warren

25 February 2005, 04:14 PM	#8 (permalink)
WarrenD Forum Ace Join Date: Aug 2002	Gilles, A question: What makes you say that they were clear doped linen, and not aluminum doped? To the best of my knowledge, and according to folks at the Memorial Flight in France, current thinking is that "most" of the Sopwith 1.5 Strutters were alu-doped. (But not all!) After I found this out, I went back in my datafiles and other books, and I can see where a great many/most could certainly have been silver. Warren __________________ History is the lie we all agree upon.