This World War I Plane Has Two Claims to Fame: It Was One of the Deadliest Fighter Aircraft of Its Time, and It Was Flown by Snoopy The Sopwith Camel was challenging to fly but also successful in ...

One of the legends clinging to the Sopwith Camel is that it was so reluctant to turn 90 degrees to the right that pilots preferred making a 270 to the left.

Kozura's plane actually includes what's known as a "data plate" culled from a Sopwith Camel whose serial number was B2337.

Comstock Park — A Sopwith Camel crashed somewhere between Lincoln and Felsted in eastern England on Aug. 24, 1917. The fighter plane was en route to the Western Front. Tom Kozura has the proof.

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 ...

But its instability also contributed to it being agile and maneuverable, and once its tricky characteristics were mastered, the Camel was a superior fighting airplane. In popular culture, the Sopwith ...

But its instability also contributed to it being agile and maneuverable, and once its tricky characteristics were mastered, the Camel was a superior fighting airplane. The Camel entered operational ...

THIS week's image is of a Sopwith Camel biplane, number K-157, which had just landed on Bathurst Racecourse in 1920. The image is from a private collection.

The Sopwith Camel was not just the name Snoopy gave his flying doghouse; it was one of the best-known aircraft of World War I. A rare surviving example of the plane is featured in the exhibition ...