This airplane may have been the second most significant airplane in history, after the various Wright Flyers. This second post on the air show includes some more of the pictures I took, although they are far from “professional” Spent the week before down in Virginia Beach at the “Warbirds Over the Beach” airshow. This is link is worth looking at, showing how one is constructed, fully documented in pictures: I gather this is a field improvisation, but was done during the Great War.
But then, I am really not that patient enough to be a good photographer. Not sure why his picture looks brighter and better than mine. This picture below taken by a friend of the same plane at the same time. I gather 1,280 were built in England and 4,500 were license-built in France by 11 different companies. It had a 130 horsepower French built Clerget 9B 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine. It was also the first airplane to have air brakes (the Wikipedia article on air brakes only started discussing their history in 1931). It was the first British aircraft to enter service with a forward firing synchronized machine gun that fired through the propeller.
The Sopwith 1 1/2 stutter did its first flight in December 1915 and was introduced to combat in April 1916. This is a flying model of the Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter. This third post on the air show includes some more of the pictures I took, and a few other more “professional” pictures. In early October I spent the weekend in Virginia Beach at the “Warbirds Over the Beach” airshow.
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