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    The Sopwith Triplane is a British single seat fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by the Sopwith Aviation Company during the First World War. It...
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    The Sopwith Triplane was a successful example, having the same wing span as the equivalent biplane, the Sopwith Pup. Alternatively, a triplane has reduced...
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    Fokker Dr.I (redirect from Fokker Triplane)
    captured Sopwith Triplane while visiting Jasta 11. Upon his return to the Schwerin factory, Fokker instructed Reinhold Platz to build a triplane, but gave...
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    Tabloid Sopwith Baby Sopwith Sparrow Sopwith 1½ Strutter Sopwith Pup Sopwith Triplane Sopwith L.R.T.Tr. Sopwith Hispano-Suiza Triplane Sopwith Bee Sopwith Camel...
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  • The St Croix Sopwith Triplane is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by St Croix Aircraft of Corning, Iowa. When it was available...
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    Service (RNAS). Posted to the Western Front in June 1916, he flew Sopwith Pups, Triplanes and Camels with No. 8 Squadron RNAS, achieving thirty-eight victories...
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    When in level flight, the Camel was markedly tail-heavy. Unlike the Sopwith Triplane, the Camel lacked a variable incidence tailplane, so that the pilot...
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    German fighters. The RNAS replaced their Pups, first with Sopwith Triplanes, and then with Sopwith Camels. The RFC soldiered on with Pups, despite increasing...
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    AEG Dr.I (category Triplanes)
    production ensued. The Dr.I was a Dreidecker (triplane) variant of the D.I and had been inspired by a Sopwith Triplane that had been captured intact. A number...
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    British Sopwith Triplane involved in the action returned to base undamaged. Richthofen posted a claim for shooting down the Sopwith Triplane. However...
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  • single engined triplane, the Snark did not fly until after the end of the war, only three being built. In spring 1918, although the Sopwith Snipe had not...
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    Alcock Scout (redirect from Sopwith Mouse)
    fuselage and lower wings of a Sopwith Triplane, the upper wings of a Sopwith Pup and the tailplane and elevators of a Sopwith Camel, and married them to...
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    On the 24th, Allmenröder killed Naval 10's Robert Saunders in his Sopwith Triplane on a morning mission. The evening of the next day, Canadian ace Gerald...
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  • The Sopwith Long Range Tractor Triplane (L.R.T.Tr) was a prototype British long-range three-seat triplane escort fighter of the First World War. Its unusual...
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  • teacher Robert Tripe (1973–2015), New Zealand actor A nickname of the Sopwith Triplane First World War fighter aircraft Rock tripe, a lichen This disambiguation...
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    Caudrons and Nieuport 11s, he was chosen to test one of the earliest Sopwith Triplanes. This became his favourite type, and he achieved many victories with...
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    software portal Video games portal Triplane Turmoil, a 1996 VGA Freeware remake MacLean, Andrew (1993-10-14). "Sopwith Documentatio(6/6)". Newsgroup: comp...
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    Archived from the original on 3 July 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2017. "SOPWITH TRIPLANE". Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Canada Science and Technology Museums...
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    Type C Nieuport 12 Nieuport 17bis Sopwith Baby Sopwith Camel Sopwith Scooter Sopwith Triplane Sopwith 1½ Strutter Sopwith Camel A preserved Clerget 9B engine...
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    slowly being equipped with the new, fast-climbing and maneuverable Sopwith Triplane, and Collishaw found the aircraft "delightful", though still wished...
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  • Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1915. p. 91. Franks, Norman (2004). Sopwith Triplane Aces of World War I. London, UK: Osprey Publishing. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-84176-728-4...
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    injuries.[citation needed] June 29 – The Shuttleworth Collection's Sopwith Triplane hit a fencepost on landing near the Old Warden airfield, Bedfordshire...
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    patrol, leading a patrol of five in a prototype Fokker Triplane. In a chaotic dogfight with Sopwith Camels from No. 10 Naval Squadron, Wolff nearly collided...
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    Fokker V.4 (category Triplanes)
    aircraft of World War I. Inspired by the successful Sopwith Triplane, Anthony Fokker chose to create a triplane fighter. Reinhold Platz was responsible for the...
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    This is a list of aircraft types having triplane wings. Citations Davilla 1997, p. 46. "Besson canard". www.aviafrance.com. Retrieved 2011-01-27. "Besson...
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  • original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2011. Sopwith Triplane Aces, p. 26. Sopwith Triplane Aces, p. 56. The Edinburgh Gazette, 26 June 1917, p...
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    airworthy late production Sopwith Triplane (G-BOCK) fitted with an original 9B as well as an airworthy late production Sopwith Camel (G-BZSC) fitted with...
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    fuselage De Havilland DH89A Rapide G-AGSH painted as British European Airways Sopwith Dove G-EAGA Aircraft of the BAE Systems heritage collection were formerly...
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    The Sopwith 2B2 Rhino was a British two-seat triplane bomber designed and built by Sopwith Aviation Company as a private venture. The Rhino was powered...
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    (Nieuport 17, SPAD VII, Sopwith Triplane), increased to a twin-gun standard in later war fighters (Nieuport 28, SPAD XIII, Sopwith Camel), with exceptions...
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