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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Sopwith Camel was an American rock band associated with the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene of the mid-1960s. Sopwith Camel, named by founding member...
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the Royal Air Force during the First World War, most famously the Sopwith Camel. Sopwith aircraft were also used in varying numbers by the French, Belgian...
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others were of a different type, known (like similarly adapted Sopwith Camels) as the Sopwith Comic. The cockpit was moved back behind the wings and one or...
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more conventional Sopwith Pup. It had been decided to withdraw the Triplane from active service as increasing numbers of the Sopwith Camel arrived in the...
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not pursued. In 1918 the Royal Air Force experimented with launching Sopwith Camel fighters from HM Airship 23. The Germans also experimented with the...
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The Airdrome Sopwith Camel is an American amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by Airdrome Aeroplanes, of Holden, Missouri. The aircraft is supplied...
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Nieuport 12 Nieuport 17bis Sopwith Baby Sopwith Camel Sopwith Scooter Sopwith Triplane Sopwith 1½ Strutter Sopwith Camel A preserved Clerget 9B engine...
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Foster mounting (section On the Sopwith Camel)
early examples were required to replace the inferior Sopwith-Kauper gears used in early Camels, so that the armament of the S.E.5a remained the same...
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motor car engine designer W. O. Bentley, BR.1s powered the majority of Sopwith Camels flown by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). During World War I, W O...
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aircraft for the allied forces, including 5747 of the Sopwith Camel single-seat fighter. Sopwith was awarded the CBE in 1918. Bankrupted after the war...
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he served on the Western Front with No. 4 Squadron AFC, operating Sopwith Camels. He was credited with 29 aerial victories, and his achievements were...
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fighters. The RNAS replaced their Pups, first with Sopwith Triplanes, and then with Sopwith Camels. The RFC soldiered on with Pups, despite increasing...
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designer of the Sopwith Company, began to design a fighter intended to be the replacement for Sopwith's most famous aeroplane, the Sopwith Camel. The design...
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carrier had been equipped with Sopwith Camel 2F.1a, naval variant of the Sopwith Camel. These partially replaced the Sopwith 1½ Strutter. In late 1917 a...
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the 1960s with Tim Hardin, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Charlatans, and Sopwith Camel, and later with Norman Greenbaum, Tazmanian Devils and Chris Isaak....
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941–942. Mathews & Foreman 2015, p. 941. Sopwith Camel (D9507)17th Aero Squadron 1Lt R D Gracie Sopwith Camel (B7192) 213 Squadron Lt J Reid D.H.9 (D7708)...
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Western Front before the Camel, there were fewer squadrons equipped with the S.E.5 than with the Sopwith fighter. Together with the Camel, the S.E.5 was instrumental...
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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 was...
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Camel, a river in Cornwall, United Kingdom Camel Nunataks, two rock nunataks in Antarctica Camel Rock (disambiguation), several places Sopwith Camel,...
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first use of aircraft carriers in combat, with HMS Furious launching Sopwith Camels in a successful raid against the Zeppelin hangars at Tondern in July...
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semi-autobiographical, V. M. Yeates having served with 46 Squadron flying Sopwith Camels in 1918 and also having lost all his friends in the war. T. E. Lawrence...
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Peanuts (redirect from Sopwith Productions)
(goggles/scarf), taking to the skies on top of his red doghouse (the Sopwith Camel). A bronze statue of Charlie Brown and Snoopy stands in Depot Park in...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Sopwith Camel)
the Camel Squadron (1934). The 1934 novel Winged Victory by Victor M. Yeates features the Sopwith Camel in action during the Great War. Sopwith Camels appear...
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producing some of the first tanks and a number of aircraft, notably the Sopwith Camel. On 11 September 1918, Ruston, Proctor and Company merged with Richard...
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Alcock Scout (redirect from Sopwith Mouse)
fuselage and lower wings of a Sopwith Triplane, the upper wings of a Sopwith Pup and the tailplane and elevators of a Sopwith Camel, and married them to a rear...
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Douglas John Bell (section Sopwith Camel ace)
transferred to No. 3 Squadron in France as a flight commander. He used Sopwith Camel no. C1615 to score ten triumphs in March. Most notable was 23 March...
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was repeated at the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 by DH.5s and Sopwith Camels being used in strafing attacks. While the tactic proved successful,...
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complete, with upgradeable World War I-era planes, including Snoopy's Sopwith Camel, to control. Unlike the original comic, many Peanuts characters appear...
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Factory F.E.8 Sands Fokker Dr.1 Triplane Sopwith 1½ Strutter Sopwith Camel Sopwith Gnu Sopwith Pup Sopwith Swallow SPAD S.A-2 TNCA Serie E Vickers E...
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