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	Sopwith Aviation Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The company was founded in Kingston-upon-Thames by Thomas Octave Murdock (Tommy, later Sir Thomas) Sopwith, a well-to-do gentleman sportsman interested in aviation, yachting and motor-racing, in June of 1912.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sopwith_Aviation_Company (1018 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.
		The Sopwith Camel was first built in 1916 by the Sopwith Aviation Company.
		The Sopwith Snipe was due to replace the Camel in use, but the war ended first.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sopwith_Camel (360 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.
		We started a new little tiny company, really, inside the old works, and we called it the Hawker Company so that it shouldn't be confused with Sopwith Company, which was in liquidation and obviously was going to take six months or so to clear up, or probably longer.
		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)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Harry George Hawker (1889 - 1921)
		Harry Hawker was employed as a mechanic with the small Sopwith company and scarcely had he been placed on the payroll when he began lessons in flying as a pupil of Sopwith, his employer.
		The Sopwith Company men had gone to the trouble to rebuild the American Burgess-Wright biplane which had had a twin propeller, and to modify it to their own design in order to meet the competition requirements.
		The Sopwith `Tabloid' as the plane which Hawker brought to Melbourne was known, was produced at the Kingston factory of Sopwiths for the first time in November 1913, and in bringing it to Australia, Hawker was giving his people the opportunity to see the very latest in aircraft design.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/hawker.html (8301 words)

	Internet Modeler Profiles
		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.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2000/june/galleria/profiles.htm (1182 words)

	THOMAS SOPWITH FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thomas Octave Murdock Sopwith was born in Kensington, London.
		On December 18, 1910, Sopwith won a Â£4,000 prize for the longest flight from England to the Continent in a British built aeroplane.
		Another Thomas Sopwith (1803-1879) was an eminent geologist and fellow of the Royal_Society.
	www.gottaorderflowers.com /Thomas_Sopwith (351 words)

	Sopwith Camel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sopwith Camel was a British World War I single-seat fighter aircraft that was famous for its manoeuvrability.
		It was armed with two Vickers.303-in (7.7 mm) machine guns mounted in front of the cockpit, firing forward through the propeller disc.
		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.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sopwith_Camel (290 words)

	The First Overseas Aviation Companies
		Although the company was known mostly for traditional airplanes, the first plane it built was the Bat Boat, one of the world's first amphibious airplanes and the first in Great Britain.
		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.
		The company prospered during the war, but faltered during the poor post-war market and was dissolved in 1920.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/earlyoverseas/Aero45.htm (1453 words)

	Western Front Association Contributed Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The second is that the Sopwith 'Camel' was the only aircraft manufactured by Sopwith which was used on the Western Front and, thirdly, the only British unit to use Sopwith aircraft was the RFC (later RAF).
		The Sopwith aircraft used operationally on the Western Front, and elsewhere in the Great War, were all designed (jointly with others) and manufactured by an English aircraft designer Thomas Octave Murdoch (T.O.M.) Sopwith (1888-1989) or his licensees.
		The second Sopwith aircraft type that served on the Western Front, was generally known as the Sopwith 'Pup' (officially it was designated as the Sopwith 'Scout').
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/research/sopwith.htm (1861 words)

	Free World War One Sopwith Pup Aircraft Computer desktop background wallpaper
		Sopwith became Chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group in 1935 and was president of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors.
		The Sopwith Pup was produced by Thomas Sopwith and his Sopwith Aviation Company in 1916.
		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 /ww1-3.htm (2046 words)

	Sopwith Camel
		The Sopwith Camel was a British World War I single-seat fighter aircraft.
		It featured a 150-hp (110-kW) Gnome nine-cylinder rotary engine, and it was armed with two Vickers 0.303-in (7.7-mm) machine guns mounted in front of the cockpit, firing forward through the propeller disc.
		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)

	Strutter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sopwith 1 ½ Strutter was the first British machine specifically designed with a synchronized machine gun firing through the airscrew.
		When the Sopwith Aviation Company designed their two seat biplane, they were still contractors for the Admiralty.
		The 1 ½ Strutter has the distinction of being the first Sopwith aircraft to have the trademark rudder and tailplane surface, and it was also the first machine designed with an interrupter gear for a forward firing machine gun.
	www.homestead.com /RitterAllied/Strutter.html (1134 words)

	pup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sopwith Aviation Company was founded in 1912 by flight pioneer T.O.M. Sopwith.
		Sopwith Aviation specialized in fighter aircraft and, during the World War I, built some of the finest fighters of the time.
		Several years after the war, the company was absorbed by Hawker.
	usfighter.tripod.com /pup.htm (178 words)

	de Havilland, Hawker de Havilland - History
		Sopwith Aviation Company went into voluntary liquidation in 1920 after the British government cancelled all Sopwith aircraft orders at the end of WW1.
		Sopwith's patent rights were bought by a syndicate lead by Harry Hawker (an expatriot Australian aviator and chief test pilot at Sopwith).
		Moving to Sydney in 1930, the company acted as an agency, with assembly, repair and spares facilities for the company's popular sporting and airliner types.
	www.boeing.com /global/Australia/History/hdh.html (983 words)

	Sopwith Aviation Company -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The company was founded in (Click link for more info and facts about Kingston-upon-Thames) Kingston-upon-Thames by (Click link for more info and facts about Thomas Octave Murdock (Tommy, later Sir Thomas) Sopwith) Thomas Octave Murdock (Tommy, later Sir Thomas) Sopwith, a well-to-do gentleman sportsman interested in aviation, yachting and motor-racing, in June of 1912.
		Soon after came the small and agile single-seat Scout, which quickly became better known as the (Young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf) Pup because of its obvious descent from the 1 1/2 Strutter.
		Upon the liquidation of the Sopwith company, Tom Sopwith himself, together with Harry Hawker, Fred Sigrist and Bill Eyre, immediately formed H.G. Hawker Engineering, forerunner of the (Click link for more info and facts about Hawker-Siddeley) Hawker-Siddeley Aviation company.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/sopwith_aviation_company.htm (868 words)

	Brooklands - The Birthplace of British Motorsport and Aviation
		A new Sopwith Aviation Company was formed in late 1912 with flight sheds at Brooklands and offices and additional premises in an old roller-skating rink in nearby Kingston upon Thames.
		Vickers survived in the aviation business through innovation and good management and despite the economic depression and lack of major orders for Britain's small peacetime air force and fledgling airline industry, the company came to specialise in large biplane bombers and transports for the RAF including the Virginia, Victoria and Valentia.
		This significant new group of companies was to produce the majority of British fighter aircraft in the 20th century - most notably the Hurricane fighter which played a decisive role in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940.
	www.brooklandsmuseum.com /aviation_history2.cfm (915 words)

	British Aviation 1918
		A descendant of the Sopwith Camel, the Sopwith Snipe was equipped with a more powerful engine and provided better visibility from the cockpit.
		On 27 October 1918, Canadian ace William Barker made the Sopwith Snipe famous in a single-handed battle with more than 60 enemy aircraft that earned him the Victoria Cross.
		Flying the Sopwith Snipe, Captain Elwyn King scored 7 victories making him the highest scoring ace to fly this aircraft.
	www.wwiaviation.com /british1918.shtml (95 words)

	Small Fry Links
		The Pup was later used for the first successful 'carrier' landing, but when the pilot tried to repeat the feat he unfortunately lost his life as the people who 'caught' the aircraft could not prevent it slipping over the side and the pilot was drowned - aircraft did not have brakes in those days.
		So almost every aviation project that the UK gets into is traceable back to dear old Tommy Sopwith - not that he was responsible for all this, but there IS an audit trail right back to him.
		Tommy was interviewed in his eighties and was asked "Of all the aircraft that Sopwiths and Hawker have turned out, which is your favourite?" he thought about it for some time then replied "It's like asking the father of a very large family to name his favourite daughter?".
	pages.sbcglobal.net /claryk/sopwithcamel.htm (448 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.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/Camel/DI78.htm (331 words)

	Royal Flying Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The RFC was intended to have had separate military and naval branches.
		The Royal Navy however was not keen on having naval aviation under the control of an Army corps and formed its own Royal Naval Air Service.
		Sopwith Aviation Company Baby Camel Dolphin Pup Snipe 1½ Strutter
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Royal_Flying_Corps (1278 words)

	Flashback 1/72 Sopwith 1.A2
		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.wwi-models.org /IM/French/strutter.html (1334 words)

	Hawker/Hawker Siddeley
		Harry Hawker got his start in the aviation industry with the Sopwith Aviation Company which he joined as a mechanic in 1912.
		In 1935, Tom Sopwith formed Hawker Siddeley Aircraft as a holding company for Hawker Aircraft, Gloster Aircraft, Armstrong Whitworth and Armstrong Siddeley Motors.
		In 1977, Hawker Siddeley, along with the British Aircraft Corporation and Scottish Aviation were nationalized and merged into British Aerospace.
	www.shanaberger.com /hawker.htm (150 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sopwith Pup was a single seater biplane fighter aircraft used by the British in World War I.
		It was manufactured by the Sopwith Aviation Company and was officially named the Sopwith Scout.
		The Pup was based on the personal plane of Sopwith's chief test pilot Harry Hawker.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Sopwith_Pup (311 words)

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