Canadian WWI ace Arthur Whealy scored 27 aerial victories while flying Sopwith fighters with the Royal Naval Air Service and ...

Canadian WWI ace Frank Granger Quigley scored 33 aerial victories flying the Sopwith Camel in just six months before dying ...

The article investigates the persistent legend that the Sopwith Camel was reluctant to make right turns, attributing this to the significant gyroscopic effect of its unique spinning rotary engine.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of four photo albums containing factory photographs of Sopwith Aircraft built during 1918 and 1919. There are overall ...

Comstock Park — A Sopwith Camel crashed somewhere between Lincoln and Felsted in eastern England on Aug. 24, 1917. The fighter plane was en route to the Western Front. Tom Kozura has the proof. The ...

Pilot who flew many successful sorties scoring 15 victories in one month but who died during a take-off at Port Meadow PILOT George Thomson won the Military Cross for outstanding gallantry during the ...

Tom Kozura's New Year's Resolution probably reads a bit differently from the rest of ours: "Make significant progress on building an authentic reproduction of a World ...

Britain last week showed off a delta-wing plane, the Gloster Javelin, which its builder thinks is the fastest, longest-range, all-weather day & night fighter ever built. Nobody needed to guess who the ...

Pilots of the Sopwith Camel complained that the engine, guns, fuel tank, and pilot were clustered too close. They didn't know the airplane's very shape generated drag that hampered its performance.