On the morning of April 20th, 1918, amidst the grim realities of World War I, a squadron of British Royal Air Force Sopwith ...

Snoopy, the Flying Ace, sits on top of his dog house with gritted teeth, wearing his cap, goggles and scarf. His house stands in for his plane: a Sopwith Camel.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Sopwith Camel is among the most significant and famous of all WWI aircraft. Camels downed 1,294 enemy aircraft, ...

Britain last week showed off a delta-wing plane, the Gloster Javelin, which its builder thinks is the fastest, longest-range, all-weather day & night fighter ever built. Nobody needed to guess who the ...

Comstock Park — A Sopwith Camel crashed somewhere between Lincoln and Felsted in eastern England on Aug. 24, 1917. The fighter plane was en route to the Western Front. Tom Kozura has the proof. The ...

SEATTLE - A priceless piece of history has come in for a landing at the Museum of Flight's Personal Courage exhibit. "We have been searching for this artifact for almost 100 years," said curator Dan ...

The average life expectancy of British and Canadian pilots in the First World War was just 17 hours during an air offensive 100 years ago that was so deadly it was called “Bloody April.” Planes and ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Single-engine, single-seat, British-built World War I biplane fighter; 230 horsepower Bentley B.R.2 engine; Olive drab ...

The story of World War I will be told many times—and in many ways—as the centennial unfolds. In John Hughes-Wilson and Nigel Steel’s new book The First World War in 100 Objects (Firefly Books, 2014), ...

Pilots of the Sopwith Camel complained that the engine, guns, fuel tank, and pilot were clustered too close. They didn't know the airplane's very shape generated drag that hampered its performance.