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1919 - 0163.PDF
FEBRUARY 6, IQIQ •MILESTONES" THE SOPWITH MACHINES ljLl?l^^il # ALTHOUGH OUT " Milestones " series are primarily intended to include machines built during the War, we reserve ourselves the privilege of referring, when it seems advisable to do so, to machines built before the outbreak of hostilities. This is sometimes necessary in order to fully grasp the significance biplane. This machine, although built in 1913, has had such an extraordinary effect on aeroplane design in general, and in particular was certainly the beginning of the greatness of the House of Sopwith, that it undoubtedly merits in clusion in this series of articles. We, therefore, makr no A HISTORICAL EVENT. "Flight" Copyright. -Mr. Hawker, on the first Sopwith side-by-side two-seater " Tabloid," pays bis first flying visit to Hendon in 1913 of the development that has taken place. A case in point, when dealing with the machines built by the Sopwith Avia tion Co., Ltd., of Kingston, is the Sopwith " Tabloid " • Previous instalments of this series appeared as follow;-:—Aircomachines: Jan. 9, 1919; Bristol machines: Jan. 23, 1919. A.I the scale diagrams of the "Milestones" series are to a uniform scale, and are thus immediately comparable as regards relative size. apology for including the " Tabloid," although it antedates the War by some twelve months. The Sopwith «' Tabloid " r* In its original form the Sopwith " Tabloid " was built as a side-by-side two-seater, with an 80 h.p. Gnome engine It was built for Mr. Hawker, the famous Sopwith pilot. "FUgh' Copyright Three stages in the evolution of the Sopwith " Tabloid."—The top photograph shows the machine in its original form as a side-by-side two-seater. On the left is a later type, single-seater, in which the chassis struts ->re slightly more raked, and which has a non-balanced rudder, in front of which is a triangular fin. On the right the Sopwith " Tabloid " in which the late Mr. H. Barnwell flew In the aerial Derby. This machine had a Vee-type undercarriage ' 1 G 2
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