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HISTORICAL MINIATURES BY GEORGE GRASSE |
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HISTORICAL MINIATURES BY GEORGE GRASSE |
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SOPWITH PUP N.6205, No.3 SQDN, RNAS, 1916
by George Grasse
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| This 3-view drawing is credited to J. D. Carrick or F. Yeoman and appeared in Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War compiled by W. M. Lamberton and published by Harleyford Publications Limited. The introduction of the Sopwith Pup in early 1916 represented the first British tractor biplane with a syncronized machine gun that blunted the run-away success of Germany's Albatros D-type biplane fighters. The balance of air power was more or less equalized with the addition of the Sopwith Triplane introduced at about the same time. |
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| Sopwith Pup N.6205 "Betty" was flown by Flight Commander Joseph 'Joe' S. T. Fall of RNAS Squadron No.3, France 1917. He scored three victories of his 11 'Pup' victories and went on to score 25 more flying the Sopwith 1F.1 'Camel' for a total score of 36. The 'Pup' was powered by a variety of rotary engines ranging from the 80 hp to 110 hp. Its armament was a single .303 Vickers machine gun. There were eight operational 'Pup' squadrons in France: 48, 54, 66 RFC; 3, 4, 8, 9 Naval (RNAS), and one of the Dunkirk-based Seaplane Defence Flight. At the time of its introduction in the early fall of 1916, the Fokker Eindeckers had been chased away and the 'Pup' came up against the various interim German biplane fighters that preceded the full-scale introduction of the Albatros D Series, mostly Fokker and Halberstadt D biplanes. By October 1916 the main 'Pup' adversary was the Albatros D.II followed by the D.III. Nonetheless, 'Joe' Fall's 11 victories included one Halberstadt D.II, two unknown seaplanes, three Albatros D.II, four Alabtros D.III, one early Albatros D.V. |
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