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	Thomas Sopwith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Octave Murdock Sopwith was born in Kensington, London.
		On December 18, 1910, Sopwith won a £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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Sopwith (382 words)

	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)

	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)

	No. 1510: Thomas Sopwith
		The WW-I air war was, in large measure a duel between Sopwith and the maker of German airplanes, Fokker.
		Sopwith learned to fly in 1910, when he was twenty-two.
		Both Sopwith and Fokker were still under thirty in the fateful summer of 1917.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1510.htm (577 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888 - 1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
		Thomas Sopwith reformed his company in the postwar period as the Hawker Engineering Company and assembled a consortium of talent and production which remains active as a major element of the British Aerospace Industry.
		Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith was born in 1888.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/sopwith.html (2767 words)

	HALL
		Thomas Richard Beaumont of Bretton Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire was born about 1758 and his younger days joined the army as a cornet in a cavalry regiment.
		Thomas Richard Beaumont and Diana’s son Wentworth Blackett Beaumont was born in the Parish of St James, London on 11 April 1829.
		Sopwith was the chief engineer of the Blackett Beaumont Company in Allendale who mechanised the lead industry by applying waterpower to the mining operation in the Allendale valleys.
	www.geocities.com /bywell2004/HALL.html (1047 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)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888 - 1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sopwith built a number of prototypes, one of which introduced a cutout in the upper wing center section.
		To Sopwith the significance of the Dolphin was not, however, merely technical, for they themselves were given orders for well over a thousand of the 1,500 built before the Armistice, with production at Kingston succeeding that of' Camels and preceding work on Snipes at Ham.
		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.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/sopwith2.html (6468 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888 - 1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sopwith and pilot Howard Pixton expected the Tabloid to fare well in the race, but the tiny plane's performance exceeded even their most optimistic hopes.
		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)

	Free World War One Sopwith Pup Aircraft Computer desktop background wallpaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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 /ww1-3.htm (2046 words)

	The Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny”
		Development of the Jenny began in 1913 when aircraft manufacturer Glenn Curtiss visited the factory of Thomas Sopwith in England.
		Sopwith had been manufacturing aircraft with a tractor propeller configuration, and Curtiss was interested in developing this type of aircraft.
		Douglas Thomas would join the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation and design the Curtiss J and N models, and Royal Navy pilot John Porte would be one of the pilots who crossed the Atlantic in a Curtiss seaplane.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Jenny/Aero3.htm (1374 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		In 1910, Britain's Sir Thomas Sopwith taught himself to fly, and later that same year he went on to win the de Forest prize for the longest flight to the European continent from England.
		Sopwith: No, she didn't, but she owned the airplane, and it was flown by a Frenchman.
		Sopwith: Oh, I was competing for a prize of 500 pounds put up by the Missionary Company for the longest flight in England before the end of 1910, for a British machine.
	www.fathom.com /feature/121854 (1438 words)

	Prints
		Sopwith was a motorist with an early interest in motorcycles and motorcars.
		Later, in May of 1911, Sopwith gathered his aviation ventures and traveled to America to promote and learn, setting up at Hempstead Plains, the home of the Moisant flying school; unfortunately, John Moisant was killed in an airplane accident on December 31, 1910 so the two never had the opportunity to compete.
		Sopwith's aviation enterprises blossomed from his flying school at Brooklands into a full-blown manufacturing operation at Kingston-Upon-Thames area as he designed his first airplane, a 3-seat biplane, in 1912 and began the Sopwith Aviation Company.
	www.commercemarketplace.com /home/CollectAir/Prints.html (8544 words)

	Jennybuilders.org -- Jenny History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Thomas had extensive aircraft design experience, with previous employment at Vickers and later with Sopwith.
		Thomas spent the winter of 1913-1914 working on the design.
		To produce an aircraft as fast as possible, Thomas used the fuselage from the "J" model.
	www.jennybuilders.org /static/jennyhistory.html (2135 words)

	Sopwith Aviation Company -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
		This aircraft, better known as the (Click link for more info and facts about 1 1/2 Strutter) 1 1/2 Strutter due to its unconventional cabane strut arrangement, was used from 1916 by both the RNAS, RFC and the French Aviation Militaire as a single-seat bomber, two seat fighter and artillery spotter and trainer.
		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)

	No. 84: Thomas Sopwith
		Sopwith was 15 when the Wright brothers flew.
		But that was far from the last of Sopwith.
		Sopwith finally celebrated his hundredth birthday on January 18th, 1988.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi84.htm (400 words)

	Air Power and the new Imperialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sir Thomas Sopwith was born in 1888 – fifteen years before the Wright Brothers demonstrated that heavier than air powered flight was possible and he died in 1989, as the Cold War, ended after an extraordinary lifetime of devotion to aviation.
		Trenchard, who had had his first flying lessons at Sopwith's flying School, did much to preserve the delicate flower that was the RAF, and we remember his advocacy of the Imperial Policing role as a cost effective way to keep the far flung Empire under control.
		Thomas Sopwith had no shortage of imagination and innovation – let us hope that we can match such vision today.
	www.tgarden.demon.co.uk /writings/articles/2002/020701raes.html (4113 words)

	Written biography of Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith \| Life of Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		During a long life, British aviation industrialist, Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888-1989) was a race car driver, yachtsman, speed record holder, balloonist, pioneer pilot, and engineer.Thomas Sopwith was born January 18, 1888, into a family distinguished for several generations in engineering and business.
		However, by 1963, at 75 years old, Sopwith had retired as chairman and assumed an ever smaller role.Usually engaged in several interests, he never gave work undivided attention, interspersing hunting, travel, and other diversions.
		The influence of Sopwith can be indirectly seen in the many books on British aircraft, but the common biographical sources are weak.
	www.newessay.com /biographies/Thomas_Octave_Murdoch_Sopwith-34254.html (320 words)

	Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith Biography / Biography of Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith Biography Biography
		During a long life, British aviation industrialist, Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888-1989) was a race car driver, yachtsman, speed record holder, balloonist, pioneer pilot, and engineer.
		Thomas Sopwith was born January 18, 1888, into a family distinguished for several generations in engineering and business.
		Sopwith did not distinguish himself academically in the private schools he attended as the son of a reasonably well-off family.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/thomas-octave-murdoch-sopwith (256 words)

	Sopwith F1 Camel airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		The Camel, designed by Thomas Sopwith, was the highest scoring fighter of the First World War.
		This single-seat fighter took its name from the hump over the breeches of the two front machine guns; the nickname given it by one of the squadrons was rapidly adopted as the types' name.
		The Camel saw extensive service in home defence, over the Western front, in the UK on training and test work until 1923 and in other countries up until 1928 - a remarkably long career for the time.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /sopwith-f1-camel.htm (224 words)

	ccfc-aircraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Designed by Sir Thomas Sopwith (1888-1989) in 1916, the prototype Triplane made its first flight on May 28, 1916.
		The Sopwith eventually served on the Western Front until December 1917.
		Although the airplane was extremely promising, its short combat career of about a year was overshadowed by that of its more famous successor, the Sopwith Camel.
	www.chicagocentennialofflight.org /aircraft_sopwith.htm (165 words)

	AIN Online: century In review 1910s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		On Oct. 22, 1910, Sir Thomas Sopwith, having bought and assembled a Wright-Howard biplane, attempted to combine the maiden flights of both himself and his new machine.
		Sopwith took his first passenger aloft that same evening, and within three weeks, after logging no more than 10 hours, he had established new British distance and duration records.
		Thomas escaped unhurt, but Dickson was seriously injured and never flew again.
	www.ainonline.com /Departments/centurypast/century1910.html (1502 words)

	Thomas Sopwith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sir Thomas Octave Murdock Sopwith (de enero el 18 de 1888 - de enero el 27 de 1989) era un pionero británico de la aviación así como un dueño de un yate celebrado.
		La octava Murdock Sopwith de Thomas fue llevada en Kensington, Londres.
		De diciembre el 18 de 1910, Sopwith ganó un premio £4.000 para el vuelo más largo de Inglaterra al continente en un avión construido británico.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/th/Thomas%20Sopwith.htm (451 words)

	MR. SOPWITH LOST IN CLOUD FLIGHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Thomas O. Sopwith, the English aviator, in his Bleriot monoplane, made a remarkable flight from the Brighton Beach race track yesterday afternoon to the field at Nassau Boulevard.
		Sopwith found his way until he located the Long Island Railroad tracks near East New York.
		Sopwith carried as a passenger George F. Campbell-Wood, secretary of the Aero Club of America.
	roynagl.topcities.com /mrsopwith.htm (216 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Sopwith Building is a 14 million pound purpose-built building that houses three of the four schools that make up the Faculty Of Technology.
		The building is named after Sir Thomas Sopwith who was knighted for his pioneering work on aircraft design and manufacture.
		The Sopwith building is a replacement for the Canbury Park site which the Faculty of Technology has now vacated, and was designed to reflect the needs of the schools that use it.
	www.kingston.ac.uk /eann/venue (537 words)

	Thomas Sopwith Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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	BBC SPORT \| Other Sports \| Sailing \| Americas Cup \| History \| The inter-war years
		Thomas Sopwith took over from Sir Thomas Lipton and found immediate reward.
		After a dispute over pay Sopwith set off across the Atlantic with an amateur crew that took a surprise 2-0 lead in the series.
		Thomas Sopwith's second boat, again designed by Charles Nicholson, was even better than his first but he had the misfortune to come up against the greatest boat in the history of the Cup.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/low/other_sports/sailing/americas_cup/history/2218928.stm (406 words)

	Thomas Sopwith - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		Thomas Lipton saw the America's Cup race as an opportunity to market his tea to America.
		After her America's cup campaign was over she was sold to Thomas Sopwith founder of the Sopwith Aviation Company and Sir Richard Fairley in the 1930's.
		Endeavour originally owned by aviation mogul Sir Thomas Sopwith that was the 1934 challenger for England.
	www.klmpub.com /seachest/jclass.htm (1453 words)

	Hawker Siddeley, one of the largest and best-known
		The failed firm, Sopwith Aviation, had been very active during World War I and had built the famous Sopwith Camel fighter plane.
		Unable to pay it, Sopwith responded by declaring that it was bankrupt.
		Thomas Sopwith, chairman of Hawker, took the initiative by drawing on profits from sales of Harts as he raised capital of £2 million, some $10 million.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Hawker/Aero51a.htm (1427 words)

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