I speak, of course, of the Sopwith Camel. A fighter plane, that -- her peaceful zoological namesake notwithstanding -- became a legend, mainly due to her real-life exploits in the deadly skies of ...

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.

This First World War-era aircraft has a fascinating backstory. Despite some models being delivered to frontline squadrons on ...

all birdsong and stillness—until an airplane shatters the calm with the startling brrruuuppp…brruuppp of its rotary engine. A Sopwith Camel crosses the fence and seems to pause, kestrel-like ...