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Sopwith aviation company
This company was responsible for the production lots of many planes designed by Tommy Sopwith. Many of the Sopwith planes had the machine guns above the Propeller. Their fisrt factory was located in the Roller Skating Rink, Canbury park road, Kingston Upon Thames. It had 5000 employees. -
Sopwith Tabliod/Schneider
They were British Biplanes originally designed as sports aircafts, later used in service as military planes. 178 of the two planes were built in total, the majority of them being schneiders. -
Comparison of world I planes to World war II
Most world war oner planes were made by the Sopwith aviation company for example the Sopwith Tabloid and the Sopwith bat. The machinerb was mainly twin Vickers Machine guns. In world war 2 the machinery was much more advanced and also the planes were smaller, -
Sopwith Baby
This plane was very similar to the Sopwith Schneider howewver rather than eing a two seater aircraft it was actually a one seated air craft.The Royal Naval Air Service ordered 286 Sopwith Babies of which 100 were built by Sopwith at Kingston and 186 by BlackBurn Aircraft. -
Sopwith Pup
It was only used for two years until it was outclassed by German planes. It was very similar to the Sopwith Camel but slighly bigger. -
Sopwith Camel facts
This plane was deisgned by Tommy Sopwith. It had twin Vickers machine guns(bear in mind that theses guns were the powerfullest at the time). Ity was first flewn in December 22nd 1916. It was faster than the German Fokker Dr 1. -
Hawker Hurricane
There were over 14583 Hurricanes built. This single seat was designed mainly by Sydney Camm. It had an Rolls Royce Merlin engine. Its top speed was 547 kmph, It had superb machine guns. -
Supermarine Spitfire
Over 20, 341 spitfires were built.Spitfires fought in every operational theatre of the War and remained in RAF front-line service up to 1954. At the end of its development the Spitfire carried an engine producing more than twice the power of the original, its maximum take-off weight and rate of climb had more than doubled, its firepower had increased by a factor of five and its maximum speed had been increased by a third; all this in essentially the same airframe.
