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Tom Sopwith (LOC)

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  • Bruce Ryerson said:
    Wasn't Snoopy's aircraft the "Sopwith Camel"? from the wiki - In June 1912 Tom Sopwith with Fred Sigrist and others set up The Sopwith Aviation Company. The company produced key British World War I aircraft, most famously the Sopwith Camel. Sopwith was awarded the CBE in 1918 Learn something new everyday....
  • Mark in NOVA said:
    Interestingy Sopwith lived until 1989! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sopwith
  • Kilted Cowboy said:
    appears to be this machine: pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx?CID=isg&mediauid={42F3D440-8531-47B1-9EDD-0763FB057904} which was the first plane ever to land on the grounds at Windsor Castle February 1st 1911
  • Kees Kort said:
    The machine T.O.M. Sopwith is sitting (or really posing, even in those times people were not really flying in costume !) is the Howard Wright Biplane of 1910. Howard T. Wright was no relation to the Wright brothers. He was an English engineer building flying machines from 1907 on. Incomprehensibly Sopwith bought the machine and startled everybody when he made his first test flight on October 22, 1910 without ever having flown ! Machines were in constant modification, so on the LC picture a structure can be seen in front shielding the aviator from the (cold) wind. Originally the aviator was full blown in the wind. Also can be seen a big fuel tank somewhat behind the pilot. At first a smaller tank was dangerously above the aviator. Sure this is the machine that landed in Windsor Castle on February 1, 1911, probably not in this configuration on the picture. Sopwith took this Howard Wright Biplane to the USA in his 1912 trip, but crashed in the water off Manhattan Beach on September 10, 1912. The machine was completely destroyed, but Sopwith lived on to a very old age in the nineties. Sources: Bruce Robertson - Sopwith. The man and his aircraft. Harleyford, 1970 Peter Lewis - British Aircraft 1809 - 1914. Putnam, 1962 Cheers Kees
  • Mary said:
    Varese2002: thank you for the Howard Wright biplane verification and references. We'll add this information to the source data and reload the description.