My friend Javier Arango, for whom flying a 1917 Sopwith Camel was as routine as flying a Skyhawk is for the average CFI, wrote that “…control forces in pitch and yaw are minimal throughout its ...

Eight years before Lindbergh’s solo feat, a two-man team won a high-stakes challenge to chart the first nonstop flight across ...

The Sopwith Camel was one of the most legendary fighter planes of World War I, dominating the skies with its agility and firepower. Used by the Australian Flying Corps, it became a symbol of early ...

The Sopwith Camel entered operational service in July 1917, and downed 1,294 enemy aircraft, more than any other Allied fighter in World War I. Arango, in 2014, in a reproduction Sopwith Camel ...

The Sopwith Camel is known for its agility and many victories, while the Bristol F.2 Fighter remains a symbol of versatility and firepower; these machines were at the heart of the Great War.

Images and text reprinted with permission from the publisher. Perhaps the best remembered British airplane is the Sopwith Camel, which entered service in the summer of 1917, helping to transform ...

His distinctive red Fokker triplane is in hot pursuit over the Somme Valley; in its sights are two British Sopwith Camel fighters. First one, and then the second are swiftly eliminated by the ...

But the Allies could produce many more aircraft than the Germans, and they built excellent fighters such as the British Sopwith Camel F-1 — an aircraft credited with more enemy kills than any ...

Below is Fort Brockhurst in Gosport with a pair of Sopwith Camel Biplanes banking overhead on their approach to land at Fort Grange Airfield nearby. The scene is set in 1917. Grange airfield was a ...