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Nice write-up Nuuumann, but all Sopwith's owe a debt to the 11/2 strutter...Another was the Sopwith Pup, which had a big impact on naval aviation. Pups carried out take offs from platforms around 15 feet long over gun turrets and off seaplane tenders' decks, not to forget the very first landing on an aircraft carrier's deck. Pups equipped the very first aircraft carrier air group, 'F' Squadron, HMS Furious' air component, headed by Sqn Cdr Edwin Dunning, who carried out the afforementioned deck landing. Pups were also expended in experiments to find the best way of restraining an aeroplane after landing aboard a carrier, aboard Argus and Furious.
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Also, the Sopwith T.1 Cuckoo. The very first landplane (with wheels, as opposed to seaplane with floats) to enter service that was designed specifically to operate from aboard a ship, the first aircraft carrier based torpedo bomber, which equipped the very first aircraft carrier based torpedo squadron, 185 Sqn, RAF, formed in October 1918 for operations aboard HMS Argus. Cuckoos were also exported to Japan and were the IJN's first torpedoplanes, which operated aboard Japan's first carrier IJNS Hosho.
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Nice write-up Nuuumann, but all Sopwith's owe a debt to the 11/2 strutter
It was the design type that all the others were based on. Dean
I wouldn't consider the kite a WW1 plane but for sure it is quite rare.
You don't suppose there's a little Fokker DNA in there do you?