Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, CBE, Hon FRAeS (18 January 1888 – 27 January 1989) was a British aviation pioneer, businessman and yachtsman. Sopwith was...
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Aviation Company, defunct British aircraft manufacturer Sopwith (video game), 1984 video game Thomas Sopwith (disambiguation), several people Sopworth, a village...
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Thomas Sopwith (1888–1989) was an aviator and yachtsman. Thomas Sopwith may also refer to: Thomas Sopwith (geologist) (1803–1879), grandfather of the...
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Sopwith Dolphin Sopwith Salamander Sopwith Cuckoo Sopwith Bulldog Sopwith Buffalo Sopwith Rhino Sopwith Scooter Sopwith Swallow Sopwith Snail Sopwith...
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The Sopwith Camel is a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft that was introduced on the Western Front in 1917. It was developed...
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Thomas Sopwith FRS (3 January 1803 – 16 January 1879) was an English mining engineer, teacher of geology and local historian. The son of Jacob Sopwith...
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Thomas Edward Brodie Sopwith (15 November 1932 – 4 May 2019) was a British businessman and car racing driver. Thomas Sopwith was the son of English aviation...
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Kenderdine C.D.MacQuaide; Alan Watkins Sir Peter Baxendell (Chairman) Sir Thomas Sopwith Aerospace industry in the United Kingdom US Centiennal of Flight Commission...
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engines some of the most reliable of the era. British aircraft designer Thomas Sopwith described the Monosoupape as "one of the greatest single advances in...
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Cup by Camper and Nicholson in Gosport, England. She was built for Thomas Sopwith who used his aviation design expertise to ensure the yacht was the most...
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by Sir Thomas Sopwith. Thomas Sopwith had bought the challenger for the 1930 America's Cup, Shamrock V, after the death of its owner, Sir Thomas Lipton...
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2005. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2012. Thomas W. Lawson (1902). "List of Inscriptions on the America's Cup". The Lawson...
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bankruptcy of the Sopwith Aviation Company. Sopwith test pilot Harry Hawker and three others, including Thomas Sopwith, bought the assets of Sopwith and formed...
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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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fort known in the Roman Empire. The site was surveyed by the geologist Thomas Sopwith in the 19th century and the historian R.G. Collingwood in the 20th century...
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House (now Notre Dame School). Sir Thomas Sopwith, (1888–1989), aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the Sopwith Aviation, H G Hawker Engineering...
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the RAF. The Sopwith Lecture was established in 1990 to honour Sir Thomas Sopwith CBE, Hon FRAeS. In the years prior to World War I, Sopwith became England’s...
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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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Fawlty in the sitcom Fawlty Towers. 27 January – Aviation pioneer Sir Thomas Sopwith dies aged 101 at his home in Hampshire. 5 February – At 6pm, the world's...
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Windsor Castle at the 1908 Olympics, and in 1911 the pioneering aviator Thomas Sopwith landed an aircraft at the castle for the first time. George V continued...
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Christianity portal The Ven Thomas Karl Sopwith MA (known as Karl; 28 May 1873 – 14 December 1945) was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the first half...
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Norwegian Navy. Originally built in 1937 in the United Kingdom for Thomas Sopwith, she served in the Royal Navy as an armed yacht during the Second World...
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Street from 1915 to 1930. The aircraft designer and manufacturer Sir Thomas Sopwith lived at No. 46 from 1934 to 1940. A blue plaque now commemorates his...
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Blanche Noyes Adolphe Pégoud John Cyril Porte C. W. A. Scott Lyle Shelton Thomas Sopwith Louise Thaden Bobbi Trout Roscoe Turner Jules Védrines Jimmy Wedell...
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temperature, wind speed, air pressure, and information about past weather Thomas Sopwith wrote a great deal about Allenheads and his key text is available online...
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the first computer programmers. In 1919, the Towers was purchased by Thomas Sopwith, the aviator and businessman, who named his plane, the Hawker Horsley...
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Moth IV and Prince Philip's yacht Bloodhound. Its customers included Thomas Sopwith, William Kissam Vanderbilt II and George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke...
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August 1914. In February 1912 Thomas Sopwith opened his flying school and in June, with several others, he set up the Sopwith Aviation Company there, although...
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control, I reckoned I'd seen everything. And it's not difficult to fly. — Thomas Sopwith The Harrier, while serving for many decades in various forms, has been...
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classes was derived to maintain groupings of competitive class. Following Sir Thomas Lipton's near success in the 1920 America's Cup, he challenged again for...
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