Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Sopwith Camel is among the most significant and famous of all WWI aircraft. Camels downed 1,294 enemy aircraft, ...

Sopwith and his designer, Harry Hawker, formed a new company, H.G. Hawker Engineering. Sopwith stayed in the background, but his influence shaped the company's culture. Over the next decades, Hawker ...

Click to open image viewer. Single-engine, single-seat, British-built World War I biplane fighter; 230 horsepower Bentley B.R.2 engine; Olive drab upper surfaces, gray and olive drab fuselage, buff ...

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 ...

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.