WWI Aircraft: Sopwith Camel

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  • The British Sopwith Camel was developed by the Sopwith Aviation Company as a successor to the Sopwith pup, which had become outpaced by the new German fighters that emerged in the skies.
    While they looked the same in appearance, the Camel was more difficult to handle and dangerous to fly.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 524

  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  7 років тому +261

    What Sopwith Camel variant is your favourite and why?

    • @massmurda494
      @massmurda494 7 років тому +6

      i love your amazing videos

    • @brmbismarck666
      @brmbismarck666 7 років тому +10

      Simple History, I think the trench one because it can stop troops from having the advantage.

    • @massmurda494
      @massmurda494 7 років тому +2

      tru

    • @mushroomroom4138
      @mushroomroom4138 7 років тому +5

      The Trench variant one seemed very effective.

    • @eonyx3905
      @eonyx3905 7 років тому +2

      Simple History trench fighter

  • @yomanana_2620
    @yomanana_2620 7 років тому +166

    When I was young I thought that the circles on the plane were bull's eyes for the enemy to shoot

    • @sabjiyom2893
      @sabjiyom2893 4 роки тому +8

      Same here

    • @godzillakaijuboy
      @godzillakaijuboy 4 роки тому +5

      Same

    • @z0m613xD
      @z0m613xD 4 роки тому +4

      That's the problem, to the enemy, They Are 0_0

    • @easypete3630
      @easypete3630 3 роки тому

      is that beef testorone as your pfp

    • @JW-zx5dr
      @JW-zx5dr 3 роки тому +4

      Ah thats where the entente messed up a bit. I think they wanted the roundels of their aircraft to use the same design but with each nations national colours. If I was a German I’d aim for that anyway

  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  7 років тому +83

    The Fokker DR.I will be the next plane in the series as voted by you

  • @alanmaclaren4118
    @alanmaclaren4118 5 років тому +31

    Yeah I know this little French place, we could bring some girls-
    WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT GIRLS?!? THIS IS AN AIR BATTLE!

  • @jesselopez9127
    @jesselopez9127 7 років тому +116

    Could you do a video about the Korean War? It's a very underrepresented war.

    • @Kevin-os2jh
      @Kevin-os2jh 6 років тому +1

      Jesse Lopez being a Korean, I'd rly like that

    • @skherd8913
      @skherd8913 5 років тому +2

      its not over yet

    • @mrredacted85
      @mrredacted85 4 роки тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/yxaegqvl4aE/v-deo.html

  • @ZethGamer
    @ZethGamer 5 років тому +25

    Honestly, I only know of Sopwith Camel thanks to my dad who's had quite a collection of Biggless books by W.E. Johns

  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  7 років тому +133

    Simple History fans around the world! Please translate this episode in your native languages :)

    • @HajiIe
      @HajiIe 7 років тому +1

      Simple History so I can translate this to Filipino

    • @doetanirbaja
      @doetanirbaja 7 років тому

      Simple History im translate to indonesian too

    • @facundoalonso213
      @facundoalonso213 7 років тому

      Im going to try translate it to spanish, this was agreat video btw

    • @jamesthetvworker3685
      @jamesthetvworker3685 7 років тому

      Simple History translated to slovak language

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  7 років тому +2

      The link to contribute:
      ua-cam.com/users/timedtext_cs_panel?tab=2&c=UC510QYlOlKNyhy_zdQxnGYw

  • @landennadelson210
    @landennadelson210 7 років тому +60

    May you please do a simple history on the Japanese WWII Kamikaze. I'm doing a project on them for school and I used your video on the gallipoli campaign as a source for my project. It was very helpful!

  • @F95XM1
    @F95XM1 7 років тому +162

    Come on, DICE, these are too OP against infantry, don't nerf the support class, nerf these instead...

    • @TheThirdTelecast
      @TheThirdTelecast 7 років тому +14

      JPAW Sakura Either: Get on a stationary AA gun, or get the artillery truck with the AA upgrade, not OP, you must need to do something about it rather than continuing to repeatedly die.

    • @Be4zle
      @Be4zle 7 років тому +4

      Snipers are always covering AA turrets. DICE could have made BF1 so much better.

    • @F95XM1
      @F95XM1 7 років тому +5

      Every time I do that I just get sniped by those darts or a torpedo bomber.

    • @TheThirdTelecast
      @TheThirdTelecast 7 років тому +4

      JPAW Sakura Hence the artillery truck, good placement and you'll kill them easily, that's coming from a rank 20 pilot

    • @Captain23rdGaming
      @Captain23rdGaming 7 років тому +5

      As dice later replies NO xD

  • @NewController01
    @NewController01 2 роки тому +4

    Sopwith Camel: the ancestor to the Hawker Hurricane, as the company that built it later became Hawker Engineering

  • @justanotheryoutubechannel
    @justanotheryoutubechannel 5 років тому +8

    The Sopwith Pup was an awesome vehicle too.

  • @Shimimanokit
    @Shimimanokit 7 років тому +3

    Volunteering at the Brooklands museum is great. To get up close and work with some of these great planes is something special

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  7 років тому

      What is your favourite plane there?

    • @Shimimanokit
      @Shimimanokit 7 років тому

      Simple History the camel is in my top 5 but I prefer the vc10 as we get to show people the cockpit and I'm learning to get my personal pilots license so it's second nature. The vc10 is also a substantial creation that came from weighbridge aircraft manufactures and it has shaped a path for modern aviation in its own way

    • @Shimimanokit
      @Shimimanokit 7 років тому

      Simple History also the full vc10 that we have used to belong to the sultan of Oman. Brooklands also has another vc10 fuselage at the museum. And a vc10 supa down at dunsfold aerodrome

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  7 років тому

      +Joe Wilson I also recommend Duxford

    • @Shimimanokit
      @Shimimanokit 7 років тому

      Simple History great thank you. Today I'm visiting the mosquito museum. To see a special variant of the mosquito plane. It's got a Molins gun inside it.

  • @lydiawen7069
    @lydiawen7069 5 років тому +7

    1:54 the sopwith camel is going like 1(mph).

  • @williamshortfilm5818
    @williamshortfilm5818 7 років тому +53

    Could you do the Spitfire and the D. 520 next ? Thank you ! :-)

    • @ry_an.
      @ry_an. 7 років тому +2

      William short Film I think they should stick with world war 1 at the moment

  • @eonyx3905
    @eonyx3905 7 років тому +6

    Loved the video thank you for making such good videos

  • @dominickmusco1608
    @dominickmusco1608 7 років тому +6

    0:57 YES he said aluminum correctly

  • @ethanb_5276
    @ethanb_5276 6 років тому +1

    Can't wait for that Fokker Dr.I video. I am still pretty excited for when it happens.

  • @goliathprime
    @goliathprime 7 років тому +5

    All my life, I thought these were called "Southwest Camels." No wonder I could never find any information about them.

    • @jayvynjohnson7509
      @jayvynjohnson7509 3 роки тому +1

      Southwest camel sounds like a subspecies of camel

  • @theirondukew.8522
    @theirondukew.8522 7 років тому

    Trivia: It gave the name to a 60's rock band called Sopwith Camel. Also an actual character in Jim Henson's famous Muppet Show was called Sopwith the Camel. An actual camel named Sopwith. :)
    Btw it was better than the Fokker Dr.1 . Few of those were made and they were never very popular among the pilots. They had a short frontline service and replaced by the far better Fokker DVII's.

  • @ww2soldier87
    @ww2soldier87 7 років тому +2

    You should talk about the WWI German artillery cannons, like the 75mm

  • @swerdtf7990
    @swerdtf7990 7 років тому +32

    Soup with camel...

    • @Christopher-N
      @Christopher-N 7 років тому +1

      "How we cheered when they spun. How we shouted when they dived. How we applauded when one chap got sliced in half by his own propeller." -- Lt George (Blackadder Goes Forth)

    • @notjustinyeetroblox9928
      @notjustinyeetroblox9928 3 роки тому +1

      Lol

    • @swerdtf7990
      @swerdtf7990 3 роки тому

      @@Christopher-N YAPO Y QUE ME INPORTA

  • @Rogue_Nine416
    @Rogue_Nine416 6 років тому +1

    My dad once bought me a Sopwith Camel model from the aviation museum in Washington D.C. Unfortunately, some kid I knew dropped it, and the wings came apart, and the propeller broke.

  • @kenross6472
    @kenross6472 7 років тому +2

    @Simple History can you please do a video on the Spanish Civil War? It's a really interesting subject because of all the different factions fighting

  • @mikeymike1621
    @mikeymike1621 6 років тому +1

    My son Patrick loves your videos and would like to see one on the F4U corsair Fighter plane of WWII. Keep up the good work.

  • @thisismagacountry1318
    @thisismagacountry1318 2 роки тому

    Snoopy had no problem flying HIS Sopwith Camel.

  • @pingucomunista857
    @pingucomunista857 7 років тому

    The narrator of thesse british stuff make things more interesting! You guys from Simple History are the best!

  • @astropictures4396
    @astropictures4396 7 років тому

    I'm watching a ww1 air show in New Zealand tomorrow! Apparently the sopwith will be there so I'm excited

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  7 років тому

      +AstroPictures its even better now you know the story :D

  • @massmurda494
    @massmurda494 7 років тому +4

    another great video keep up the amazing work :)

  • @anon9579
    @anon9579 7 років тому +1

    I wish you could get a snoopy logo on your plane in battlefield 1

  • @chrishansen8864
    @chrishansen8864 6 років тому +1

    *I LOVE THIS CHANNEL*

  • @mandoguy2014
    @mandoguy2014 7 років тому +1

    Hey Simple History, could you try the Nieuport 28 it wasn't as mass produced as others, but it was the first fighter the US flew in France. Among them was my great Grandfather, i don't know much about him and the plane he flew is obscure but a video about it would be a good tribute to the terrific little plane.

  • @samuraifury9823
    @samuraifury9823 7 років тому

    I told a AP History teacher about your channel and he loved it

  • @Uliio
    @Uliio 7 років тому

    Nice video :P. Make one about the Fokker D7

  • @viruschoccymilkgang
    @viruschoccymilkgang 3 роки тому +1

    Simple History: shows albatross killing pup
    Me: U have no logic Pups van shoot down Albatrosses

  • @callate5898
    @callate5898 7 років тому +19

    at 0:00 u mean plane ?

  • @danlemarksman5571
    @danlemarksman5571 7 років тому +1

    Could you do a video on the German Fokker Dr1 Dreidecker, which was flown by the red baron?

  • @canthischannelget15subswit6
    @canthischannelget15subswit6 7 років тому

    Why do people dislike these videos if you don't want to learn about history then why did you click on the video

  • @blackmesa1992
    @blackmesa1992 6 років тому +1

    Please do the Fokker D.VII, one of the best fighters in WW1.

  • @richardlew3667
    @richardlew3667 7 років тому +1

    I still chuckle when I hear Fokker

  • @Ok-nv6nt
    @Ok-nv6nt 7 років тому +2

    T.F.1- Trench Fighter because I know the struggle they had on some to stand up and fire the gun, but this one has a lower gun with easy axis.

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  7 років тому +1

      +The King of All the potatoes I believe there is some kind of pulley system there but to reload they must have had to stand up

  • @GamingTurkey
    @GamingTurkey 7 років тому

    ayyy brooklands waybridge Surrey, that's where i went college.

  • @pygzig
    @pygzig 7 років тому +1

    Looking forward to a video about the Spitfire!

  • @lukesowieralski9496
    @lukesowieralski9496 5 років тому +1

    My great grandfather flew with the RAF in ww1 right in the very end of the war

  • @corbin3615
    @corbin3615 7 років тому +4

    i love your chanel

  • @maxsfax9707
    @maxsfax9707 7 років тому

    YAY a new video uploaded by my favorite UA-cam channel

  • @worldwarweird6155
    @worldwarweird6155 7 років тому +1

    I like this series about ww1 tech but could you also do a ww1 airforces video just like the ww1 factions. Thank you.

  • @leanneseaton4264
    @leanneseaton4264 7 років тому +5

    why do people dislike the videos 11 million people gave there lives to give you a good life some people are just out right disrespectful

  • @akmalhossain8489
    @akmalhossain8489 7 років тому

    Thanks bro

  • @Wolfboy2012
    @Wolfboy2012 7 років тому

    I know this may be a very sensitive and very brutal topic to talk about in your videos.
    But think you can talk about the cases of Shellshock? I have seen videos that are just hard to watch and just sad.
    since your videos are educational, maybe you can talk about it to the people on how even the solders that survive are now suffering from trauma and depression.
    Thank you.

  • @kcab4321
    @kcab4321 6 років тому

    amaaaaaazing video!

  • @hunterwatkins714
    @hunterwatkins714 7 років тому +1

    Great video guys, keep it up!

  • @andresmartinezramos7513
    @andresmartinezramos7513 7 років тому +4

    Will you do a simillar video on a battleship?

  • @farpointgamingdirect
    @farpointgamingdirect Рік тому

    The Fokker Dr I was built in response to the Sopwith Tripe, a triplane version of the Camel

    • @BobBobson-q5i
      @BobBobson-q5i 6 місяців тому

      Yes the triplane, that entered service before the camel first flew was a verson onf te camel?!?!
      It was based on the pup

  • @Gamerafighter76
    @Gamerafighter76 6 років тому

    Awesome vid. I have to start watching you guys more; I'm a history buff.

  • @Captain23rdGaming
    @Captain23rdGaming 7 років тому

    This Video Proves that it's not the machine, its the man behind the machine who makes it an effective weapon!

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  7 років тому +1

      +Captain23rd Gaming very true. An effective pilot could take advantage of the fast right turn where as a rookie may meet his death from it

  • @WorldatWar21
    @WorldatWar21 7 років тому

    I like the experimental

  • @goodmanc1
    @goodmanc1 7 років тому +133

    The british military was the most advanced during ww1, but there tactics were horribly shit.

    • @ry_an.
      @ry_an. 7 років тому +14

      Mike Oxlong no, the German army was

    • @TheThirdTelecast
      @TheThirdTelecast 7 років тому +12

      Samuel J. Stuhlinger Well, the British had tanks and superior warships.

    • @goodmanc1
      @goodmanc1 7 років тому +33

      Debatable, the British equipment was better ( discluding artillery), the british EF were better trained and most had past war experiences, the only things germany had better of was tactics, trenches and artillery. But the soldiers themselves were more advanced in fighting. The generals and tactics was the main reason a hell of a lot of british died and fucked up. But I'd say british have a slight edge over the germans.

    • @Tom-2142
      @Tom-2142 7 років тому +5

      +Samuel J. Stuhlinger SMLE > gewher 98 in all situations but long range

    • @danw6109
      @danw6109 7 років тому +1

      But that all changed in ww2

  • @MichaelSmith-jd4sq
    @MichaelSmith-jd4sq 4 роки тому

    I love the comic night fighter

  • @massmurda494
    @massmurda494 7 років тому +5

    it would be so cool if you could do a video on czar bomba

  • @charemmagaming9138
    @charemmagaming9138 7 років тому

    I love your channel it's the best

  • @pancakelazaro3476
    @pancakelazaro3476 7 років тому

    WHY DOES THIS ONLY HAVE 2K VIEWS

  • @artturikauppi8470
    @artturikauppi8470 7 років тому

    awesome video again

  • @juliol.8018
    @juliol.8018 7 років тому

    Yay you did the video I requested. Thank you!

  • @carlos3du718
    @carlos3du718 7 років тому +9

    Nice! I really love your channel and make sure to keep up the work! Can you do a video on the Fokker DR1 Triplane Next? Or the RSAF during ww2?

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  7 років тому

      Vote in the poll!

    • @carlos3du718
      @carlos3du718 7 років тому +2

      Simple History where do I vote?

    • @samsonunchained7501
      @samsonunchained7501 7 років тому

      3DU Gaming you just have to click the little circle with the i in it ^^

  • @amcpos4818
    @amcpos4818 7 років тому

    Can you please do a video about the german anti tank rifle?. Big thanks if you do.

  • @Lucas-wq9tp
    @Lucas-wq9tp 7 років тому

    please do the battle of Vimy Ridge

  • @thegreatobiwan9844
    @thegreatobiwan9844 4 роки тому

    You should do a Bristol or Fokker

  • @puercofilms991
    @puercofilms991 7 років тому

    Simple History Can you please make videos about the Korean War.

  • @tuberculosis8451
    @tuberculosis8451 7 років тому

    Could you do the Hurricane Hawker please??

  • @NakulDalakoti
    @NakulDalakoti 7 років тому

    Please do a video on Fokker triplane

  • @thebluetankengine0622
    @thebluetankengine0622 7 років тому

    Can you do World War 1 factions about the Belgian army or the Bulgarian Army Simple history?

  • @thebeanman99
    @thebeanman99 7 років тому

    Wish this channel would put out more videos!

  • @chemsburger1821
    @chemsburger1821 3 роки тому +1

    This plane fought the red baron and some say a dog was at the controls

  • @simonsebastian7406
    @simonsebastian7406 7 років тому

    How about next video about the Fokker Eindecker?

  • @ElCap1van
    @ElCap1van 7 років тому +1

    Spitfire please

  • @olivertoronyi2462
    @olivertoronyi2462 7 років тому

    please make one about Fokker DR1

  • @dfm_
    @dfm_ 7 років тому +1

    I love your vids I wish you could make more but it takes a long time to edit

  • @afonsocastro3435
    @afonsocastro3435 7 років тому

    Simple History can you do the WW1 Portugal? Please!

  • @matthewwilson7894
    @matthewwilson7894 7 років тому +1

    Love it
    my dad has one

  • @ibrahimahmad346
    @ibrahimahmad346 6 років тому

    Can you talk about the boeing company history.

  • @erick-pj4yv
    @erick-pj4yv 7 років тому

    great video

  • @imsiqtv7297
    @imsiqtv7297 7 років тому +1

    This is very interesting!

  • @xsailor85
    @xsailor85 5 років тому

    Simple history forgotten on more variant of the fighter. Snoopy’s plane.

  • @tommasorucci4088
    @tommasorucci4088 7 років тому

    Can you do a video about the Caproni Ca.3, one of the best bombers in the war?

  • @glennwedemeyer9496
    @glennwedemeyer9496 7 років тому

    PLZ Do a Video about the b-17

  • @yaqqinyasin2274
    @yaqqinyasin2274 6 років тому

    Can u guys do ww2 fighter planes.I really hoped u guys do it

  • @sullivanashcraft9234
    @sullivanashcraft9234 7 років тому

    do a video on ww1 navy ships

  • @damiansauer3365
    @damiansauer3365 7 років тому

    oh my this fast at a simple history video!

  • @dasstrumtruppen1560
    @dasstrumtruppen1560 5 років тому

    These got nothing in my Fokker Dr. 1 with my bomber killer loadout.

  • @piwiarz6475
    @piwiarz6475 6 років тому

    Flight by Clyde Blackburn*

  • @pineapplelapolynesia1994
    @pineapplelapolynesia1994 7 років тому

    Do the Supermarine Spitfire or messhiment BF 109

  • @felixfeder7106
    @felixfeder7106 6 років тому +1

    do bristol F.2 fighter

  • @canadiansarthak4635
    @canadiansarthak4635 7 років тому

    make more world war 1 videos but could u talk about vimy ridge

  • @hypo7351
    @hypo7351 3 роки тому

    So how come some of the variants had Lewis guns on top of the wings yet only one was said to have one

  • @crossthreadaeroindustries8554
    @crossthreadaeroindustries8554 7 років тому

    Ooofff - 0:33 - what's with the 10-cylinder engine in the graphic - ODD # of Cylinders!!!
    Also, later, bombs drifting downward tail first. Whoever heard...

  • @SPAD_Sudoku
    @SPAD_Sudoku 7 років тому

    Try to do the Bristol fighter

  • @TheThirdTelecast
    @TheThirdTelecast 7 років тому +1

    Should do a video about Dreadnoughts

  • @kyleborboranmain8295
    @kyleborboranmain8295 4 роки тому

    I'm confused why the ammo from the maxim doesn't hit the front

  • @isaactarnasky288
    @isaactarnasky288 3 роки тому +2

    I thought it looked like a dog house

  • @Fox_1010_
    @Fox_1010_ 7 років тому

    please do a 1916 rising in Ireland