I bought a book on the Wright four cylinder engine from the Superintendent of Documents in Washington,DC in 1983. I left it on the table of a pay phone in Washington State in 1984 then I traveled to Medford, Oregon and bought a sheet of commemorative Lincoln in a stovepipe hat stamps. Yesterday I found two of my fathers friends names wrapped up in the Wiseman-Cooke biplane. Snohomish, Petaluma do those sound like familiar locations for aviation to you. More likely you remember the arm wrestling contests at Petaluma or drving on the beach at Pismo or eatting clams. After the Great war, mailplane was the fate of what ever did not make it into the war. The first mail was delivered in a single seater that looked a lot like the Wright "Baby Grand" but used a Hall-Scott or other V-8. It was when I posed the V-8 next to the 3DUniverse biplane I noticed the wing struts. Not the N and V of a stick model Fokker of my youth and now I can see from putting Simon in my One and a Half Strutter that the top wing is way up high like on a two seater to clear the pilots head. Weddel-Willams and others are going to put the top wing right on top of the fuselage for single seat racing. The 1st Pursuit flew their Nieuports without armament into strafing and boming formations of enemy planes to break up the aim. So not having arms on the DAZ biplane is just part of the mix. Maybe some can even see why I thought it was a SPAD based on a stick model that was my first build when I was a about 6 or 7.