Thomas Sopwith decided to compete for the 10,000 pound prize with the Sopwith Atlantic, a land plane built in just six weeks. It was powered by a single 360 horsepower Rolls-Royce Eagle 8 V12 engine ...

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.

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 ...

A few years ago my friend Javier Arango and I got to talking about certain oft-repeated statements about the airplanes of World War I. Javier has a collection of very accurate reproductions of World ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom Kozura's New Year's Resolution probably reads a bit differently from the rest of ours: "Make significant progress on building an authentic reproduction of a World ...

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, ...

Scotland's East Lothian region is renowned for its rugged beauty-windswept coastlines, rolling hills, and storied castles steeped in history. But tucked away near North Berwick, another piece of ...