#Sopwith

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Replica Sopwith LC-1T flying at Dunsfold

[redarmyscreaming]

The Sopwith Triplane is a three-wing single seat scout (fighter) mounting a Vickers .303 caliber machine gun that fired through the propeller. It was privately developed by Sopwith and flew exclusively with the Royal Navy from December 1916 through the end of 1917 when they were replaced by Sopwith Camels. Pilots nicknamed the Sopwith Triplane the “Tripehound”, “Trihound”, “Triplehound”, or simply the “Tripe”. Sopwith chose the triplane configuration to provide excellent pilot visibility, rate of climb and maneuverability.

Only around 160 were built. The powerful 130-hp Clerget 9B rotary engine (117mph Max) gives it a tremendous 1,000ft/min rate of climb, high-altitude performance, and exceptional maneuverability; out-performing German scouts except for level flight and diving speeds. Unfortunately, this was also offset by its single gun and difficulty to repair.

[opelman]

Triplane by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Sopwith Triplane N6290 flies over Old Warden during its display at the Shuttleworth Collection's 2024 Summer Evening Air Show. Aircraft: Sopwith Triplane replica N6290 "Dixie II" (G-BOCK), built in 1988 by Northern Aeroplane Workshops. Location: Old Warden Aerodrome, near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.

[bigglesworld]

Sopwith Snipe. First flew in 1917 and began service mid-1918

[monkeyssalad-blog]

‘World War I – Sopwith Camels attacking a mixed formation of Fokker triplanes and Pfalz Scouts’ by totallymystified Via Flickr: Illustration by Hardy for the article Fifty Fighting Years – Half A Century Of British Air Power by John Taylor. From the Eagle Annual, 1963.

[chuckthewizard]

Kept you waiting huh?

Look I know that's probably not how you say "destroy" in German, but the "flammewerfer werfs flammen" jokes will continue until morale improves. Also seriously this thing is 32 Theler, that's a steal for a fighter-bomber this scary.

[madkot]

Sopwith Triplane

Back when the pilots were flying knights and the triplanes were their trusty steeds..

[nemfrog]

"Hand removing top of model No. 1." The playbook of metals. 1862.

Science History Archive

[planeyboys]

soopy camel

it's sooopy camel

[lonestarbattleship]

A successful landing of an F.1 Sopwith Camel, piloted by Lieutenant Commander Eddie McDonnell, at a nearby field in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He and his aircraft were the first to take off from a battleship, USS TEXAS (BB-35).

Photographed on March 10, 1919.

Posted on the Battleship Texas Overnight Program Facebook page: link

Posted on the Naval History and Heritage Command Facebook page:link

Posted on the National Naval Aviation Museum Facebook page: link

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[usafphantom2]

Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe E8015, Lieutenant Edward Mulcair of ‘A’ Flight, No. 43 Squadron RAF, ready for a patrol. France, October 1918.

@ron_eisele via X

[nocternalrandomness]

A vintage 1916 Sopwith Pup in RNAS markings returning to Old Warden Airfield after a demo flight

[onesnoopyaday]

thank u 4 flying Air Snoopy!

Snoopy #29

30/10/2024

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Dove by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Panned shot of reproduction Sopwith Dove G-EAGA as it lands at Old Warden following its display during the Shuttleworth Collection's 2024 Summer Evening Air Show. Aircraft: Reproduction Sopwith Dove G-EAGA. Location: Old Warden Aerodrome, near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.

[snwm4ncult]

sphinxtown

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