Thanks for looking at my images as I randomly hog this section with yet more walkarounds of old airframes.
The next instalment is from a recent photo shoot at the excellent Aviation Heritage Centre at Omaka; home to some of The Vintage Aviator's non flying reproduction aircraft, including this cleverly weathered R.E.8.
I have also included images of the Imperial War Museum's original R.E.8 F3556.
Beauty. The only reason I know of this aircraft is because the main character in a series of books I read flew one when he was a flight instructor during WWI