The Last Flying Sopwith Camel

The only remaining (flying) Sopwith Camel in Europe came to Stow Maries, and here is some video footage we took at the momentous event. Includes BBC coverage used with permission.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Stow
• maries
• aerodrome
• sopwith
• camel
• aeroplane
• airplane
• biplane
• world war I
• WWI

[docp1948]

An emotional delight - fantastic!

[ChicaWolverina]

@pongboy1100 What are you projecting about, you didn't even bother to consider what I told you, instead you are projecting nonsense about things that you know form nothing!

[pongboy1100]

@ChicaWolverina where you talking about? this is an original ww1 plane.. not reproduction.. and what is wrong with flyign a reproduction? you know how happy i could be if i actually have the option to evver fly 1? go troll somehwere else >:C

[ChicaWolverina]

Oh, take that out of the air immediately, it has no business flying anymore. Only !:1 scale reproductions should be flown and not any of these ugly sub-scale ones, god what a waste of materials.

[ejlister]

Fantastic! Thanks for posting.

[flibideegibbit]

what a beauty. dangerous if you didn't know how to fly it, but once mastered, your chances of survival were better than good.

[loreztaken]

great machine!

[radiskull1973]

Very Cool

[OldFokkerPilot]

An awesome example of a Sopwith Camel with a 160 HP rotary flies in New Zealand at the Masterton and Omaka airshows every year!

[datzfast]

@pisky lowe ok, i can accept that and because a more modern radial engine i suppose it handles far superior and throttle control would be superb. i have always enjoyed botrh the camel and the pup having bulit flying models of both.