Sopwith Collection (page 7)

Sopwith 1F Camel entered service in mid 1917 with both the Royal Navy and Army air arms

Sopwith 15 Strutter (forward view, on the ground)

Sopwith 2B2 Rhino first flown in October 1917, two were built but poor performance led to itsabandonment

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from gun platform
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter single-seat bomber of the RNAS, taking off from a warships gun platform. Date: circa 1918

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter fighter plane
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter fighter plane. Seen here is serial no. 6901, the first of 100 aircraft produced for the RFC. It first flew in December 1915 and was introduced in April 1916. Date: circa 1915-1916

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from ship
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter, launching from a makeshift turret-top platform on board a ship. Date: circa 1916-1918

Sopwith 15 Strutter two seater of the Armys Royal Flying Corps

Sopwith 15 Strutter 2-seat fighter (side view)
Sopwith 15 Strutter 2-seat fighter (side view, on the ground)

Sopwith Buffalo two-seat support and reconnaissance plane
Sopwith Buffalo two-seat close air support and reconnaissance plane. It first appeared in September 1918, too late to go into production. Seen here is serial no. H 5892. Date: circa 1918

Sopwith 3F2 Hippo, (forward view, on the ground)

Sopwith 2F Camel fighter plane on HMS Tiger X turret
Sopwith 2F Camel fighter plane, designed for naval use. The first was completed and flying by March 1917. It had a nose-mounted Vickers gun and an overwing Lewis gun

Sopwith 2FR2 Bulldog now with bigger wing seen going aloft

Sopwith 2F Camel fighter plane, designed for naval use. The first was completed and flying by March 1917. As seen here, it had a nose-mounted Vickers gun and an overwing Lewis gun

Sopwith 2FR2 Bulldog first flown in early 1918, this wouldbe Bristol F2B replacement was one of Sopwiths failures

Sopwith 2F Camel slung beneath R 23 airship
Sopwith 2F Camel, serial no. N6814 of No. 212 Squadron RAF, slung beneath a Vickers R 23 airship at the RNAS Airship Station at Pulham in Norfolk. Date: circa 1918

Sopwith 2B2 Rhino powered by a 220hp BHP engine

Sopwith 1F Camel two-seat trainer, serial no. B 3801. Date: circa 1918

Sopwith 2F1 Camel aft, climbing away from carrier HMS Furious

Fokker DrI produced to counter the Sopwith Triplane, it initially had fatal weak wing

Fairey Hamble Baby single-seat floatplane, a development on the Sopwith Baby formula via the addition of wing edge flaps. They were used as anti-submarine patrollers from the summer of 1917

Collishaw, Raymond, chats to one of his RNAS Sopwith Camel pilots

Raymond Collishaw, air ace, in his Sopwith Camel
Raymond Collishaw (1893-1976) Canadian air ace with the RNAS in his Sopwith Camel. He had a total of 59 confirmed victories in the First World War

Wooden Propeller manufactured by Frederick Tibbenham of Ipswich (the companys transfer sign of a bumble bee was used on every propeller that the company made)

Grivillers & Maricourt, French aviators, Sopwith biplane
Grivillers and Maricourt (Somme) - French aviators with a Sopwith biplane, by Louis Dauphin (1885-1926)

The Royal Air Force in the west by G. H. Davis
The Royal Air Force in the west. Types of machines which have been fighting and bombing during the great assault, First World War. Date: 1918

Seaplanes of 1918
Latest Navy aircrafts. Seaplanes in there present stage of development of 1918 for World War One purposes may be roughly divided into three classes

Aeroplanes of 1918
Latest aeroplanes of 1918. Bristol was a general-purpose military aircraft, a two-seater biplane, Handley Page giant bombdropper

Illustration of Sopwith 1 1 / 2 Strutter, 1st World War biplane
Illustration of Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, 1st World War biplane

Guests in front of the Sopwith Pup belonging to the Shut?
Guests in front of the Sopwith Pup belonging to the Shuttleworth Collection at the 1951 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at White Waltham Aerodrome on 6 May

Sopwith Pup belonging to the Shuttleworth Collection at ?
Sopwith Pup belonging to the Shuttleworth Collection at the 1951 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at White Waltham Aerodrome on 6 May

The Sopwith Camel of the Nash Collection proved very pop?
The Sopwith Camel of the Nash Collection proved very popular inside the marquee at the 1954 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at London Airport on 13 June

The Maurice Farman F40 of the Nash Collection with the S?
The Maurice Farman F40 of the Nash Collection with the Sopwith Camel, left, and 1918 SE5A, G-EBIC, beyond inside the marquee at the 1954 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at London Airport

The 1917 Sopwith Camel, left, and 1918 SE5A, G-EBIC, of ?
The 1917 Sopwith Camel, left, and 1918 SE5A, G-EBIC, of the Nash Collection inside the marquee at the 1954 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at London Airport on 13 June

The 1917 Sopwith Camel of the Nash Collection inside the?
The 1917 Sopwith Camel of the Nash Collection inside the marquee at the 1956 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Wisley on 15 July

From left: Gloster Gladiator, Sopwith Pup and Bristol Fi?
From left: Gloster Gladiator, Sopwith Pup and Bristol Fighter at the 1953 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Hatfield on 14 June

From left: Lord Douglas, Major G. P. Bulman and Sir Thoma?
From left: Lord Douglas, Major G.P. Bulman and Sir Thomas Sopwith, at the 94th Anniversary Luncheon at the Dorchester Hotel, London, on 12 January 1960

A Sopwith Tabloid, single seater scout tractor biplane used during World War One
KW1547391 A Sopwith Tabloid, single seater scout tractor biplane used during World War One, from The Illustrated War News, 1915 (b/w photo) by English Photographer

Seaplane Race
4th September 1919: Jacques Schneider Trophy National Seaplane Race, Hawkers Sopwith seaplane at East Cowes. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

British Entrants
4th September 1919: The two British entrants the Hawkers Sopwith and Nicholls Fairey drawn up side by side at East Cowes during the Schneider Trophy International Seaplane Race

Sopwith Tabloid
Aviator Howard Pixton in a Sopwith Tabloid. The aircraft won the second Schneider Trophy race in Monaco. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Pictured alongside an Armstrong Whitworth AW52 experimental tailless aircraft at Bagibnton Aerodrome are, from left, T.O.M

A Blackburn-built Sopwith Baby seaplane, N1123

Sopwith Atlantic

Sopwith Snipe, April 1918. Date: 1918

Sopwith Scooter monoplane

Sopwith Scooter monoplane, July 1918. Date: 1918

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