The Sopwith Camel and Sopwith Pup to me, are they most beautiful aeroplanes of WWI. Thank you for the wonderful video and the cameraman for keeping the plane centered, in focus, and the video smooth.
Steve - I agree. Thank you for your kind comments about the film - I am also the 'camera operator' as well as everything else - a 'one man band'! Steve.👍
These planes were the P-51 Mustangs of World War I. They both have a lot in common. Apart from being fighters, they also served as light bombers. And they were both used by various allies in both wars.
An excellent display! What a pity the NAW is not still building these wonderful "late production" aeroplanes, now new engines are being made, and with the essential jigs it would be possible to produce a few more of these without the problems that NAW had initially. Many thanks for posting. Chris B.
Yes, a great pity, but at least we can see 3 beautiful 'new builds' that they produced and others I hope will carry on building similar reproductions. There's a Sopwith 1 and a half Strutter nearing completion in Scotland - see here - facebook.com/strutterapss/ www.strutteraviation.com/?fbclid=IwAR2BxD4xR0u3KaaRbmonLlfIcNAzKUUysgoiLMz4gLYhvOI7ibTMe5biOjA
Ah my favourite plane - I (try to) fly it in Rise of Flight and Flying Circus, and have a 1/32 model sat in the man cave ready to build! Dull factoid - rotary engines like this ran on a total loss oil system, and the favoured oil was castor oil, which would end up covering the pilot as it came out of the exhaust. You might say that all RFC pilots were regulars..... I'll get my coat.
Imagine what people thought in 1918 when these machines were flying around at 100mph...most people still walked or rode on horseback...imagine being able to get to a city 50 miles away in 30 minutes....an 18 year old in 1910 would have taken 12 hours to move 50 miles (ignoring the train)... by 1946 (wars end) at 54 he/she can travel 1000 miles in one day if he/she needs to...1900 to 1970 really was an incredible time to be alive....imagine being born in 1890...theres no such thing as planes when you're 12 years old... and then when your 79 people are walking on the moon
Absolutely stunning. Real fighters have big props. That's a real fighter.
The Sopwith Camel and Sopwith Pup to me, are they most beautiful aeroplanes of WWI. Thank you for the wonderful video and the cameraman for keeping the plane centered, in focus, and the video smooth.
Steve - I agree. Thank you for your kind comments about the film - I am also the 'camera operator' as well as everything else - a 'one man band'! Steve.👍
These planes were the P-51 Mustangs of World War I. They both have a lot in common. Apart from being fighters, they also served as light bombers. And they were both used by various allies in both wars.
An excellent display! What a pity the NAW is not still building these wonderful "late production" aeroplanes, now new engines are being made, and with the essential jigs it would be possible to produce a few more of these without the problems that NAW had initially. Many thanks for posting. Chris B.
Yes, a great pity, but at least we can see 3 beautiful 'new builds' that they produced and others I hope will carry on building similar reproductions. There's a Sopwith 1 and a half Strutter nearing completion in Scotland - see here - facebook.com/strutterapss/ www.strutteraviation.com/?fbclid=IwAR2BxD4xR0u3KaaRbmonLlfIcNAzKUUysgoiLMz4gLYhvOI7ibTMe5biOjA
2:45 to 3:10 is simply glorious! :)
Thankyou.😊
Ah my favourite plane - I (try to) fly it in Rise of Flight and Flying Circus, and have a 1/32 model sat in the man cave ready to build!
Dull factoid - rotary engines like this ran on a total loss oil system, and the favoured oil was castor oil, which would end up covering the pilot as it came out of the exhaust. You might say that all RFC pilots were regulars..... I'll get my coat.
Thanks, a nice factoid! 👍
Beautiful.
Nicely done!👍
Imagine what people thought in 1918 when these machines were flying around at 100mph...most people still walked or rode on horseback...imagine being able to get to a city 50 miles away in 30 minutes....an 18 year old in 1910 would have taken 12 hours to move 50 miles (ignoring the train)... by 1946 (wars end) at 54 he/she can travel 1000 miles in one day if he/she needs to...1900 to 1970 really was an incredible time to be alive....imagine being born in 1890...theres no such thing as planes when you're 12 years old... and then when your 79 people are walking on the moon
My grandmother was born in 1880, before the first car, in a world of horsedrawn vehicles. She lived to see men walk on the moon.
Beautiful reproduction.
No one seems to dare to stunt a Camel in the way WW1 pilots are known to have done - that is an experience 'lost to history'!
Hmmm, l wonder why that is.
@@thegreat_I_am They are probably not allowed to?