Sopwith Pup

The Sopwith Pup was a biplane fighter plan British of the First World War.

Pup was manufactured by the company Sopwith Aviation Company and was officially called Sopwith Scout . But one gave him the name of Pup (French: Pup ) because it was smaller than the two-seater Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter also called Scout . Pup was derived from the personal plane of Harry Hawker, the leader pilot of test of Sopwith.

Pup was a hunter very handy, pleasant and easy to control. Its large wing Surface conferred a good climbing speed and a good maneuverability to him, in particular with high-altitude. Manfred von Richthofen itself rented this apparatus for its handiness, but he criticized it for his weak aptitude to accomplish flights in piqué. Pup was equipped with a machine-gun Vickers cal. 7,7 mm synchronized or, for the planes of the Royal Naval Air Service, of a machine-gun Lewis cal. 7,7 mm fixed at the higher wing.

First Sopwith Pup entered in service on the face of the west in October 1916. With the mid- 1917 they were withdraw face to take part in the defense of the kingdom against the attacks of Zeppelin S. the August 2nd 1917, the squadron to order Edwin Dunning, to the orders of Pup, managed for the first time during the First World War to be posed on a Porte-avions, HMS Furious. Dunning nevertheless was killed at the time of its third landing whereas its plane slipped on the bridge of the ship after the bursting of a tire and was crushed in the sea. After the First World War, these apparatuses continued to be employed to carry out tests with aircraft carriers. On the whole 1.770 Sopwith Pup were built.

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