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(OPPOSITE TOP) The Sopwith rigging department at Brooklands where Donald Healey adjusted and tuned the extensive wire bracing fitted to the firm’s various aircraft models. (BAE Systems)
(OPPOSITE BOTTOM) While the Kingston works housed the bulk of Sopwith’s manufacturing activities, Healey wrote, “...the great ambition of us all, though, was to get to the firm’s sheds at Brooklands, where the earlier Sopwith aircraft had
been built and where took place
the testing of all their machines.” Within a year, Healey won a transfer to the facility, housed inside the racing oval. (BAE Systems)
(TOP) Among the aircraft types that Donald Healey worked on
at Brooklands was the Sopwith Triplane, one of several important fighters that the firm built for the RFC. (BAE Systems)
(RIGHT) Sopwith’s sheds at Brooklands were within the great track. Long the hub of British aviation, a significant museum at the site now preserves its history for future generations. (BAE Systems)
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