Survivors
- Sopwith Pup N5182
This aircraft was built by Sopwith Aviation Co at Kingston upon Thames in 1916. N5182 was operated by several RNAS squadrons in Belgium and Northern France. During the period it was flown by the noted aces Edward Grange and Robert A. Little, both of whom scored kills with the aircraft. A private collector acquired N5182 from the French Air Force in 1959 and restored it to airworthy condition. Sopwith Pup N5182 was acquired by the Royal Air Force Museum in 1982 and is currently on display at the Royal Air Force Museum London.
- Sopwith Pup N5195
Served in the Royal Naval Air Service in France. Currently on display at the Museum of Army Flying.
- Sopwith Pup B1807
Built by Standard Motors in 1917 and delivered to a Home Defence squadron. This aircraft was originally fitted with a 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome Monosoupape engine, along with the distinctive three-quarter vented cowling. It was refitted by the 80 hp (60 kW) Le Rhône engine sometime in 1918. B1807 was sold at Croydon in 1920 and entered the civil register as G-EAVX. It appeared on 16 July at the 1921 Aerial Derby in Hendon, where it was groundlooped by its pilot. The wings were removed and the fuselage disappeared until 1973, when the current owner discovered the remains of the aircraft in a barn in Dorset. G-EAVX is currently being restored to airworthy condition at RNAS Yeovilton.
- Sopwith Dove G-EBKY
One Dove was converted to Pup configuration in the 1930s and continues to fly today with the Shuttleworth Collection.
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Famous quotes containing the word survivors:
“I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.”
—Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)
“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don’t know how to handle their parents. They see that their parents are traumatized: they scream and don’t react normally.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)