The Sopwith Two-Seat Scout (or Type 880) was a 1910s British biplane Anti-Zeppelin scout biplane designed and built for the Admiralty by the Sopwith Aviation...
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Racer Sopwith Type SPGN or "Gunbus" Sopwith Admiralty Type 137 Sopwith Type 806 Sopwith Type 807 Sopwith Type 860 Sopwith Two-Seat Scout Sopwith Tabloid...
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The Sopwith Pup is a British single-seater biplane fighter aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company. It entered service with the Royal Naval Air...
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Short S.80 Short Type C Sopwith Sociable Sopwith Type 807 Folder Seaplane Sopwith Two-Seat Scout Sopwith Schneider Sopwith Pup Sopwith F.1 Camel Vickers Gunbus...
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The Sopwith Tabloid and Sopwith Schneider (floatplane) were British biplanes, originally designed as sports aircraft and later adapted for military use...
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The Sopwith Triplane is a British single seat fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by the Sopwith Aviation Company during the First World War. It...
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Cuckoo Sopwith Gunbus Sopwith Pup Sopwith Tabloid Sopwith Three-seater Sopwith Triplane Sopwith Two-Seat Scout Thomas Brothers T-2 Vickers Type 32 Gunbus Voisin...
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carry up to five single-seat Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawks for scouting or two-seat Fleet N2Y-1s for training. In 1934, two two-seat Waco UBF XJW-1 biplanes...
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to a two-seater fighter such as the Sopwith 1½ Strutter or the Bristol Fighter. This usage "scout" (or sometimes "fighting scout") for "single-seat fighter"...
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referred to as the Sopwith Folder. Sopwith developed the Circuit of Britain aircraft into a landplane (the Sopwith Two-Seat Scout) The Circuit of Britain...
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List of aircraft (So) (section Sopwith)
Snail Sopwith Snapper Sopwith Snark Sopwith Snipe Sopwith Sparrow Sopwith Swallow Sopwith Tabloid Sopwith Triplane Sopwith Two-Seat Scout Sopwith Type...
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Baby (also known as the Admiralty 8200 Type) was a development of the two-seat Sopwith Schneider. The Baby utilized a wooden structure with fabric covering...
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angle. On 25 July 1915 Captain Hawker flew his Scout C, bearing RFC serial number 1611 against several two-seat German observation aircraft of the Fliegertruppe...
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The Bristol Scout was a single-seat rotary-engined biplane originally designed as a racing aircraft. Like similar fast, light aircraft of the period it...
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Synchronization gear (section The Sopwith-Kauper gear)
Unfortunately, when the gear was fitted to types such as the Bristol Scout and the Sopwith 1½ Strutter, which had rotary engines and their forward-firing machine...
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the contemporary Wight Quadruplane scout. At roughly the same time, Sopwith were building the successful Sopwith Triplane fighter. The first prototype...
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the 9C was the engine used in many single-seater scout aircraft such as the Nieuport 11 “Bebe” and the Sopwith Pup. Later in the war most 9Cs built were...
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chose command of C Flight in the newly formed 28 Squadron, flying the Sopwith Camel that he preferred over the S.E.5s of 56 Squadron. Although Barker...
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important in a fighter. The Sopwith Triplane was a successful example, having the same wing span as the equivalent biplane, the Sopwith Pup. Alternatively, a...
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twelve victories were all from Sopwith Camel aircraft, single-seat biplanes. His next two kills were both from Sopwith Camel (B6204). On 3 September 1917...
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unmanned, then a manned, Sopwith Camel fighters were launched successfully. The experiment was successfully completed with two other manned Camels. The...
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Foster mounting (section On the Sopwith Camel)
forward from this position. The unofficial "Sopwith Comic" name was also applied to a field modified Sopwith 1½ Strutter used by some home defence squadrons...
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Single-engine two-seat biplane seaplane. AD Scout (1915) – Admiralty designed single-engine, single-seat pusher anti-Zeppelin aircraft. Two each built by...
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September 1917, in company with formation, he attacked an Albatross scout and two-seater, driving them away from our lines. One machine was observed to go...
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30285, p. 9537, 14 September 1917 Franks, Sopwith Triplane Aces of World War 1, pp. 47–48 VanWyngarden, Pfalz Scout Aces of World War I, p. 66 Shores at al...
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One'". In most respects the S.E.5 had superior performance to the rival Sopwith Camel, although it was less immediately responsive to the controls. Problems...
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Thomas-Morse S-4 (redirect from S-4C Scout)
Douglas Thomas (no relation to the company owners), formerly with the Sopwith Aviation Company, who also assisted with the design of the Curtiss JN-4...
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to attack the Zeppelin base at Tondern with three Short Type 184 and two Sopwith Baby floatplanes, but the attack was ineffective. It did, however, draw...
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List of civil aircraft (section Sopwith)
two-seat sport biplane Sopwith Gnu single-engine three-seat touring biplane Sopwith Grasshopper two-seat open-cockpit touring biplane Sopwith Rainbow racing floatplane...
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Operated by No. 4 Squadron for test and trials. Sopwith Camel 1F.1 Camel United Kingdom Single-seat fighter scout biplane 1917–1919 186 aircraft. Operated by...
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