ACE-08-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale item we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in very good condition.
One rigging string loose/detached from airplane body as shown.
John Jenkins Designs ACE-08 S.E.5a D 276 No.74 Sqn. RAF, Spring 1918, Captain E. Mick Mannock
The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 was a British biplane fighter
aircraft of the First World War. Although the first examples reached the
Western Front before the Sopwith Camel and it had a much better overall
performance, problems with its Hispano-Suiza engine, particularly the
geared-output H-S 8B-powered versions, meant that there was a chronic
shortage of S.E.5s until well into 1918 and fewer squadrons were
equipped with this type than with the Sopwith fighter.
Together with the Camel, the S.E.5 was instrumental in regaining allied
air superiority in mid-1917 and maintaining this for the rest of the
war, ensuring there was no repetition of "Bloody April” 1917 when losses
in the Royal Flying Corp were much heavier than in the
Luftstreitkräfte.
*Please note this model has the screw hole for the flight stands*