Caualties 45 sqdn RFC April 1917.

[StephenLawson]

Originally Posted by StephenLawson

Greetings all;
Paddy did indeed provide me with some very informative scans of RFC 45 Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutters. I was looking for A'1093 looks like I got an image of A'1083 very impressive. CDL fuselage and PC10 or 12 on the upper surfaces of the wings. The rudder fins are halved vertically in white & black (nose to rudder) from the pilot's right side profile of the fuselage. The serials are in contrasting colours to their backgrounds. Bit of an odd duck there but very interesting.

Small addition to this the fuselage was CDL but overpaintedd white! You can see ther wear an peeling paint in the image of A 1083. Most curious. In another image of 45 RFC we see a line up fo sevral machine and there is even white fuselaged bird there too. Curiouser and curiouser. I may have to start another thread over in Camouflage and Markings.