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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • son of English aviation pioneer and yachtsman Sir Thomas Sopwith – builder of the Sopwith Camel and later chairman of Hawker Aircraft – and Phyllis Brodie...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • on the railway station at Vitry when he saw the balloon. Putting his Sopwith Camel into a dive, he fired 400 machine-gun rounds at the balloon, setting...
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    Great Britain by Gwynnes Limited they were used on such aircraft as the Sopwith Camel and Vickers Gunbus. In the 1920s Pierre Clerget turned his attention...
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    operate twin guns became available, so that the first Sopwith Camels had to be fitted with the Sopwith-Kauper gear instead. From November 1917 the gear finally...
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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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  • 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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