Alcock A.1 Last Updated: Feb 2006

Designed by John Alcock whilst serving with No.2 Wing RNAS in Mudros, it used a lot of Sopwith components, and Alcock nicknamed it the "Sopwith Mouse".  

The model is built from various Airfix and Revell parts,  doctored to match descriptions and drawings by Jack Bruce. The top wing is from the Airfix Pup, with reduced span and extended ailerons, the lower wing from the Revell Triplane, again with the span reduced. The Triplane fuselage was shortened and the decking altered to slope down from the cockpit. The tailplane is from a Camel, and the fin and rudder are scratchbuilt.

Alcock never flew his creation, for he was shot down in a Handley Page O/100 on a raid on Constantinople. It was flown from Mudros and Stavros in the Aegean theatre, eventually being written off in a crash.

Alcock later achieved fame partnering Arthur Whitten-Brown on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in the Vickers Vimy in 1919

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