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Taken at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton.
Sopwith Triplane
The following information is taken from this website:-
The Sopwith Aviation Company
Of the many famous aircraft manufacturers in the period 1914-1918, one of the most recognizable names would have to be that bearing Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's name. 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.
Sopwith Triplane
"It seemed light and elegant and yet wiry... what it lacked in quickness it made up in the smoothness and grace of its movements. A Triplane looping looked like no other machine and gave the loops an individual quality. Irreverent pilots said it looked, when doing aerobatics, like an intoxicated flight of stairs..." so wrote Major Oliver Stewart of the Sopwith Triplane.
The Triplane was an attempt to improve on the Pup's already impressive performance by replacing the Pup's two wings with three wings of reduced chord but the same span, resulting in much more lift. The reduced chord also improved the pilot's visibility. Once again the only disappointing feature was the single Vickers - which in some cases was corrected by the fitting of a second gun. So successful was the Triplane that the Germans and the French set about emulating it".
Taken as JPEG: PP in PTLens, PS 7 and FastStone
The lighting within these halls is not particularly good, so I increased the ISO to 800. |
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