The Sopwith Camel was challenging to fly but also successful in downing enemy planes, and it went on to gain pop-culture fame ...

In popular culture, the Sopwith Camel was Snoopy’s plane of choice. The anthropomorphic dog in the “Peanuts” comic strip, one ...

The airplane was also immortalized in the Peanuts comic strip as Snoopy, the cartoon Beagle with the rich imagination, pretended to be a WWI flying ace at the controls of a Sopwith Camel while ...

The Sopwith Camel is named for a hump on the engine cowling, which covered the biplane’s dual .303 machine guns. The model first appeared in 1918 and is a replica built for the Canadian Museum ...

Two replica Sopwith Pups, built at the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, B.C., are headed to France this spring for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

Object Details Physical Description Single engine, single-seat, WWI biplane fighter, with 130 HP Clerget 9B rotary engine. Summary The Sopwith Camel is among the most significant and famous of all WWI ...