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32015 -RFC
Training Squadron Pup including James McCudden's blue "Gotha hunter"
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GBP17,50 WITHOUT shipping 
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Options for 32015 Sopwith Pup Trainers and ‘Pets’ of the RFC
1. D4077
Central Flying School Upavon. ‘Owner’ unknown at the time the markings were
applied.
Date is uncertain and it may have been post-war.
2. C305 189 (Night) Training Squadron, Suttons Farm 1918.
3. C312 189 (Night) Training Squadron, Suttons Farm 1918.
4. A7311, Joyce Green, July 1917.
5. C354 Hainault Farm, unit and pilot unknown, date uncertain – 1918 or early 1919.
6. C374.
7. D4073 CFS Upavon, pilot unknown and date uncertain.
Date is uncertain and it may have been post-war.
2. C305 189 (Night) Training Squadron, Suttons Farm 1918.
3. C312 189 (Night) Training Squadron, Suttons Farm 1918.
4. A7311, Joyce Green, July 1917.
5. C354 Hainault Farm, unit and pilot unknown, date uncertain – 1918 or early 1919.
6. C374.
7. D4073 CFS Upavon, pilot unknown and date uncertain.
References for 32015
Principle references consulted in the production of this decal sheet:
Acknowledgements and thanks are due in particular to Mick Davies and Arno Vercammer for their excellent articles in C&C. We are in agreement with the majority of their interpretations of colour schemes for options 1, 4, 5, 6&7, with some minor caveats outlined in the following text.
- “The Sopwith Pup” by J.M.Bruce, Gordon Page and Ray Sturtivant. Air Britain 2002. The best single historical work on the Pup, unlikely to be surpassed.
- “Sopwith Pup” Windsock Datafile Special by J.M.Bruce. Albatros Productions 1992. Produced very much with the modeller in mind with scale drawings, coloured profiles and excellent colour detail photographs of the RAF Museum’s Pup.
- “Sopwith Pup” Windsock Datafile no.2 by J.M.Bruce. Albatros Productions 1986
- “Sopwith Pup Aces of World War 1” by Norman Franks. Osprey Publishing 2005. Evocative accounts of the Pup and its pilots in action. Excellent colour plates by Harry Dempsey.
- Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps by James Byford McCudden, first published in 1918. Subsequently extended and re-published in 1930 under the title of Flying Fury.
- “The Aeroplanes of the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing)” by J.M.Bruce. Putnam 1982.
- Cross & Cockade International, Autumn and Winter 2009, Vol40 nos 3&4. Articles by Mick Davies, “McCudden’s Pup: A7311”, “Pretty CFS Pups @ Upavon” and “More Colourful Pups” all illustrated by Arvo Lennart Vercamer.
Acknowledgements and thanks are due in particular to Mick Davies and Arno Vercammer for their excellent articles in C&C. We are in agreement with the majority of their interpretations of colour schemes for options 1, 4, 5, 6&7, with some minor caveats outlined in the following text.
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