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	Sopwith Aviation Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sopwith Aviation Company was a British aircraft company that designed and manufactured aeroplanes mainly for the British Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and later Royal Air Force in the First World War, most famously the Sopwith Camel.
		The Sopwith company was wound up in 1920 after failing to achieve sufficient success with civilian products (which had prompted the purchase of ABC Motors in 1919) to compensate for the drop in military aircraft orders after the end of the War and a potential large demand from the government for Excess War Profits Duty.
		Sopwith attempted to produce aircraft for the civil market based on their wartime types, such as the Dove derivative of the Pup and the Swallow, a single-winged Camel, but the wide availability of war-surplus aircraft at knock-down prices meant this was never economic.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sopwith_Aviation (1018 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sopwith Aviation Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century, notable for a number of important planes, including the Fairey III family and the Fairey Swordfish.
		Sopwith 1½ Strutter The Sopwith 1½ Strutter was a British one or two-seat biplane multi-role aircraft of the First World War.
		The Sopwith Snipe was a single-seat bi-plane fighter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), designed and built by the Sopwith Aviation Company during the First World War and was arguably the definitive fighter of the Allied side by the end of WWI.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sopwith-Aviation-Company (1938 words)

	Sopwith Camel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Sopwith Camel was first built in 1916 by the Sopwith Aviation Company.
		The Sopwith Camel was frequently referenced as the "plane" of Snoopy in the Peanuts comic strip, when he imagined himself as a WWI flying ace and the nemesis of the Red Baron.
		Sopwith Camel is also the name of a 1960s psychedelic rock music band from San Francisco, California.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/so/sopwith_camel.html (281 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888 - 1989)
		Sopwith had been in any doubt as to the wisdom of changing his business this remarkable achievement alone must have assured him that his future career lay in aviation.
		Sopwith as a pilot, for, like other famous airmen, such as Louis Bleriot, Henri Farman, and Claude Grahame-White, who jumped into fame by success in competition flying, he has retired with his laurels, and now devotes his efforts to the construction of machines.
		In the art of aviation, and in the construction of air-craft, our French, German, and American rivals were very efficient pacemakers in the aerial race for supremacy, and during the years 1909-12 we were in grave peril of being left hopelessly behind.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/sopwith.html (2767 words)

	Early Contributions to Aviation
		Sopwith: Well, the 1 1/2 Strutta was the first two seater to have a proper rear gunner, with a swiveling gun, to protect the tail.
		Sopwith: Well, there were a lot of problems, but one thing that surprises me was that first the E-28-29, which we designed for the first Whittle jet, came out absolutely bang on its estimated performance, which I thought was pretty good.
		Sopwith: I think the greatest failure that we produced was the machine that we built to fly across the Atlantic, which Hawker and McKenzie Grieve flew three-quarters of the way across, and then they had engine trouble and they had to land.
	www.fathom.com /seminars/10701016/session4.html (2455 words)

	Thomas Sopwith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sopwith Aviation Company was the company he founded that produced key British World War I aircraft.
		Sopwith was chairman of the new firm and was knighted in 1953.
		Another Thomas Sopwith (1803-1879) was an eminent geologist and fellow of the Royal Society.
	www.portaljuice.com /thomas_sopwith.html (170 words)

	Sopwith 1½ Strutter two-seat fighter
		Among British WWI warplanes the Sopwith 1½ Strutter occupied an honored place because it was the first Allied fighter equipped with a synchronized machine gun.
		Designed by the Sopwith Aviation Company in Kingston on Thames led by Thomas Sopwith, it was first known as the Sopwith LCT (or Land Clerget Tractor).
		Soon the new Sopwith obtained its own unusual name, 1½ Strutter, because the cabane struts with their distinctive W form were reminiscent of half-struts.
	www.rodenplant.com /HTML/402.htm (409 words)

	Flashback 1/72 Sopwith 1A2
		Even though the Sopwith Land Clerget Tractor - or commonly referred to as the 1 1/2 Strutter - was designed and built by the British Sopwith Aviation Company Ltd., it was the French who used it more, and manufactured the most number, approximately 4600.
		The Flashback kit of the Sopwith 1.A2 Strutter consists of 27 injection-molded pieces on two main sprues; three blocks of resin consisting of 6 pieces; two pieces of clear plastic for the windscreen mounted on the gun butt and the instruments; and one sheet of photoetch brass.
		This is the area of the turtledeck in front of the horizontal tail which - for lack of a better term - "swoops up" to meet the horizontal tail.
	www.internetmodeler.com /1999/may/aviation/strutter.htm (1318 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888 - 1989)
		A fortnight later the Sopwith Tabloid was unpacked and reassembled in the team tent at Monaco.
		It was the smallest and lowest-powered aircraft in the race, and the French, feeling secure in their dominance of world aviation by this time, ridiculed the British team as they laboured over the still rusty engine, refusing to believe the rumours that the little biplane had already achieved 92 miles an hour in tests.
		Sopwith Babies were in production almost until the end of the war, well after it had essentially become an obsolete aircraft.
	www.ctie.monash.edu /hargrave/sopwith3.html (2349 words)

	Sopwith Camel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sopwith Camel Scout was a British World War I single-seat fighter aircraft that was famous for its manoeuvrability.
		It was armed with two.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine guns mounted in front of the cockpit, firing forward through the propeller disc.
		The Sopwith Snipe was due to replace the Camel in use, but the war ended first.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sopwith_Camel (407 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888 - 1989)
		Sopwith built a number of prototypes, one of which introduced a cutout in the upper wing center section.
		Sopwith's next fighter was delivered to "A" Squadron, RNAS which took delivery of the first Sopwith Pup (number 3691) prototype (which was joined by five additional prototypes, numbers 9496/7 and 9898-9900) for a service evaluation.
		The Sopwith Pup was followed by the Triplane, which was passed by the Sopwith experimental department on May 28th, 1916.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/sopwith2.html (6468 words)

	Sopwith Salamander
		Acting in response to a request in late 1917 from the Ministry of Munitions, the Sopwith Aviation Company began to study the adaptation of its most successful aircraft - the Camel - to the role of ground attack aircraft.
		Sopwith then thought about adapting its most recent fighter - the Snipe - to the same role and a new armoured fuselage was designed that when mated to the Snipe's wings produced what was to be known as the TF.2 Salamander.
		The last part to be put in place was a propeller, and for this I used the aeroclub prop that came in the same bag as the Bentley, which I painted in brown enamel and then worked on with watercolour pencils until I got to a colour I was satisfied with.
	www.internetmodeler.com /1999/november/aviation/salamander.htm (2746 words)

	Sopwith Salamander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sopwith Salamander TF2 was a British World War I ground attack aircraft.
		The Sopwith Salamander, a derivative of the Sopwith Snipe was first built in 1918 by the Sopwith Aviation Company.
		The TF stood for Trench Fighter, it was the second, following after the TF1, an adapted Sopwith Camel.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sopwith_Salamander (129 words)

	Free World War One Sopwith Pup Aircraft Computer desktop background wallpaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sopwith became Chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group in 1935 and was president of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors.
		The elegant Sopwith Pup was a design much beloved by pilots which flew it, one of the descriptions of the Pups handling being, "it was so light to the touch, if you sneezed, you looped".
		Halberstadt The Sopwith Camel had great agility in combat because of the fantastic torque of its rotary engine and because the engine, pilot and guns were all located in the first seven feet of the wooden airframe.
	www.moorewallpaper.com /ww1-2.htm (2046 words)

	First Flight Centennial
		Sopwith (1888-1989) won a prize for the longest flight across the English Channel in 1910, and founded the Sopwith Aviation Co. in 1912, building many of the aircraft used in World War I, such as the Sopwith Camel.
		Poberezny is one of the most decorated men in the international aviation community, having received hundreds of trophies, awards and honors for his countless contributions to the world of flight.
		Prior to joining APCO, Garvey was the first-ever five-term administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, where she successfully navigated the year 2000 transition, established a risk management approach across the entire aviation community to improve safety, and worked to expand the capacity and capabilities of the air traffic control system.
	www.firstflightcentennial.org /100_Aviation_Heroes.html (9420 words)

	The Sopwith Aviation Company in Profile
		The Sopwith Aviation Company Ltd of Kingston-on-Thames was formed in 1912 and produced many outstanding designs prior to its demise in 1920, some of which are illustrated here.
		The first Sopwith design to see widespread service was the Land Clerget Tractor - better known as the 1 1/2 Srutter due to the arrangement of its cabane struts.
		The Sopwith Pup indeed appears to have been whelped from the 1 1/2 Strutter.
	207.228.243.100 /awn/98-june/profile-1.htm (480 words)

	The Sopwith Aviation Company
		The Strutter was produced in two variants: a single-seat bomber was used by the RNAS Wings as well as license-produced in France (in fact the French built more Strutters than the British); and a two-seat fighter which was used by both the RNAS and the RFC.
		Maneuverable and able to hold its height in a turn, the Sopwith Pup went on to become a firm favorite of both the RFC and the RNAS.
		The Sopwith Dolphin represented almost as radical a departure from standard Sopwith designs of the day as did the earlier Triplane.
	www.cbrnp.com /profiles/quarter1/sopwith-aviation.htm (1190 words)

	Sopwith Camel
		SOPWITH CAMEL: was the most successful fighter of World War one.
		Sopwith Camel with 65 Squadron, on routine patrol, meet head-on with the unmistakable Albatross fighters of the German air force.
		One of the very last opportunities for aviation art enthusiasts and collectors to acquire a print by Robert Taylor individually hand-signed by a First World War fighter pilot: Henry Botterell, now 100 years of age, is believed to be the last living fighter pilot of all nations who fought in the First Great War.
	www.aviationartprints.com /sopwith_camel.htm (1359 words)

	Photo N1915K Pruitt Ken Sopwith Pup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 1992 built Pruitt Ken Sopwith Pup N1915K is a replica of the original Sopwith Pup which played a major rule in the early years of WWI.
		About 1770 airframes of the Sopwith Pup were built by and under license for the Sopwith Aviation Company Ltd. The Sopwith Aviation Company Ltd in Kingston-on-Thames was founded in 1912 by Tommy, Thomas Octave Murdoch, Sopwith.
		The Sopwith Pup remained in service on the front until late 1917 when it was replaced by the Sopwith Camel.
	avia-dejavu.net /photo%20N1915K.htm (349 words)

	The Sopwith Triplane - Great Britian
		It has been said that Anthony Fokker was so anxious to produce an aircraft which would be an adequate reply to the new Sopwith fighter that he resorted to subterfuge to obtain an example of the Triplane.
		He contrived to arrange for the delivery to his works of the remains of a Sopwith Triplane which had been shot down, despite the fact that the aircraft should have gone to the German experimental field at Adlershof.
		One Sopwith Triplane, N.5431, was used in Macedonia.
	www.aviation-history.com /sopwith/triplane.html (1351 words)

	The First Overseas Aviation Companies
		During this time, there was a shift from aircraft designers, builders, and pilots all being the same people to having entrepreneurs who ran the business and built the planes and others who flew them.
		Sopwith built several aircraft for World War I, including the Pup, an important pursuit aircraft, the 1-1/2 Strutter, and the Triplane.
		But its most famous plane and most important was the Sopwith F.1 Camel, which was regarded as the finest British fighter of the war although difficult to fly.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/earlyoverseas/Aero45.htm (1453 words)

	Sopwith Camel \| Aviation History\| Blueprints
		Indeed, many experts in military aviation consider the Camel to be one of the greatest fighting aircraft of its time.
		Although it was most effective as a fighter, the powerful Sopwith scout was sometimes used for ground-attack missions, during which it carried four 20-pound bombs in addition to its other armament.
		Although the Sopwith Camel scored numerous victories over enemy aircraft, three of its achievements are of particular importance in the annals of military aviation history.
	www.aviationshoppe.com /Sopwith_Camel.html (828 words)

	STAN STOKES AVIATION ART - Fast and Furious (Sopwith Camel)
		With the start of WW I, Sopwith Aviation shifted its focus to military aircraft, and was to become one the major suppliers to both the Royal Air Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
		The Strutter was a precursor of the Sopwith Pup, which would serve as the Royal Navy's first carrier aircraft.
		The fore and aft decks were connected by a narrow ramp on either side of the funnel and bridge, and this permitted aircraft to be to moved between the two decks.
	www.stanstokesart.com /ststavartfaa2.html (585 words)

	Sopwith Camel
		The Sopwith Aviation Company produced the Sopwith F.1 Camel, a famous biplane of World War I and well known to readers of the "Peanuts" cartoons.
		The Camel was the most successful fighter plane of the war and very difficult to defeat when flown by a skilled pilot.
		Although highly maneuverable, the aircraft was tricky to fly, and more men lost their lives while learning to fly it than did during combat.
	centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/Camel/DI78.htm (331 words)

	STAN STOKES AVIATION ART - Royal Navy Ace (Sopwith Triplane)
		Two other early Sopwith designs were the Bat Boat, one of the first flying boats flown by the Naval Wing, and the Three-Seater, a large observation aircraft.
		The fabric was separated from the structural members by thin strips of spruce, and the forward section of the fuselage was covered with sheet aluminum.
		Sopwith also produced a 200-HP Hispano-Suiza powered triplane that had larger wings to compensate for the increased engine weight.
	www.stanstokesart.com /ststavartron.html (676 words)

	The Great Sopwith Cookup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This project will attempt to show that British aircraft of WWI are not a boring subject as well as that there are many attractive schemes and that the aircraft themselves are as beautiful as a German or French designed aircraft of the same period.
		As with the Albatros build-up, it is hoped that the end results of the project produce a wonderful example of the elegance and beauty of aircraft from this sometimes forgotten period at the dawn of aviation.
		The development of the Camel, the Sopwith Snipe represented the maximum efficiency that could be gained from the small rotary engined scout.
	wwi-cookup.com /sopwith (688 words)

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