Ellie Carter set to fly World War One Sopwith Strutter
Ellie Carter, Britain’s youngest female pilot, has challenged herself to break another record by flying a vintage fighter plane from World War One.
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Ellie Carter, Britain’s youngest female pilot, has challenged herself to break another record by flying a vintage fighter plane from World War One.
Ellie Carter, Britain’s youngest female pilot, has challenged herself to break another record by flying a vintage fighter plane from World War One.
They have built from scratch take to the air. it's a biplane called a sopwith strutter and at the moment there are only two in the world that are currently airworthy. 0ur scotland correspondent lorna gordon has been to take a look. these magnificent men and theirflying machine. for more than 20 years, these volunteers have spent much of their spare time in a cold hangar building a world war i plane. tighten that up again. they have dedicated thousands of hours to painstakingly constructing the sopwith strutter and now they are finally fitting the propeller. for engineers used to working on mor...
Soon be able to see the world war one plane they have built from scratch take to the air. it's a biplane called a sopwith strutter and at the moment there are only two in the world that are currently airworthy. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon has been to take a look. these magnificent men and theirflying machine. for more than 20 years, these volunteers have spent much of their spare time in a cold hangar building a world war i plane. tighten that up again. they have dedicated thousands of hours to painstakingly constructing the sopwith strutter and now they are finally fitting the pro...
If the team are successful, this will be the third. lorna gordon has been to take a look. these magnificent men and theirflying machine. for more than 20 years, these volunteers have spent much of their spare time in a cold hangar building a world war i plane. tighten that up again. they have dedicated thousands of hours to painstakingly constructing the sopwith strutter, and now they are finally fitting the propeller. for engineers used to working on more modern aircraft, this was an entirely new challenge. it's completely different, the wood and canvas, which i knew nothing about. do you guy...