Survivors
Two complete, original, Sopwith Snipes survive. E6938 resides in The Canadian Aviation Museum in Rockcliffe. Formerly owned by film star Reginald Denny, it had been restored by Jack Canary, in California, in the 1960s. E8105 is exhibited at The National Air And Space Museum, in Washington, D.C. Previously, it had been one of the most cherished aircraft at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, in Rhinebeck, New York. It passed to the N.A.S.M. after Cole Palen's death. The fuselage of Major William G. Barker's Snipe, "E8102", resides, (minus landing gear, engine and cowl), at the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Antique Aero in California has recently completed construction of an air-worthy, very detailed reproduction Sopwith Snipe. It awaits a new-build 230 h.p. Bentley B.R.2 engine.
Another Snipe reproduction E8102 has recently been built in New Zealand by The Vintage Aviator Ltd, and was subsequently purchased by Kermit Weeks for his Fantasy of Flight aviation museum in Polk City, Florida. This is a flying copy, complete with the original Bentley rotary engine. It recently arrived in Florida (early 2012) and is awaiting reassembly and rigging before flying again.
The RAF Museum in August 2012 took delivery of a non-flying copy of the Snipe. Marked E6655 it was constructed in the Wellington work-shops of TVAL in New Zealand. The inclusion of original, non-functioning parts precludes this aircraft from flight status.
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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)