[WWI] GWICC in Stockholm

[Diego Fernetti]

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> Forgot to say that I met Doug Carrick in Stockholm, we had a good
> chat about Spads. Incidentally his favorite is the Spad 13.

!!!!!!!!

> He's still working on the Spad 11/16 drawings, and he'd got a
> bunch of new measurements from Allan Touelle (IIRC), so was pleased
> about that. He said that the Wylam drawings are rubbish btw.

What about the Ian Stair rendition on the book French Aircraft of WW1?

> He'd noticed that one wingtip on the Spad 16 in Washington is different
> to the other, which confirms what I've thought all along that the
> whole plane is a bodge job.

!!!!

> I think you can see signs of where the
> undercarriage was forced up into the fuselage, so I suspect now that
> it was groundlooped on it's last flight, which is of course pure
speculation,
> but FWIW.

Perhaps they let it fall when took it out of the hanging rig?

> It was great to meet him.

You are a disgrace!
D.