Sopwith Camel

[jankees]

B1 was piloted by Clive Collett, a kiwi ace from Blenheim

camel (00006) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

camel (00003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

camel (00004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

camel (00009) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[Charl]

Good to see once more, a beautiful paint on a great model!
Hope you had an enjoyable break, JK.

For those like me, who wondered what became of Tom Sopwith's Company:
Falling on hard times post-war, the key players sold the company to defray expenses and formed Hawker!

[Splitpin]

Beautiful work indeed JK .

[jankees]

I worked a bit more on the textures, and uploaded them on fs.2

Collett(00005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Together with these ones:

Malik (00001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

camel (00016) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[Splitpin]

Superb !

[Naki]

[jankees]

and more Camels, I must say I like really like to model!

Olieslagers (00008) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Olieslagers (00003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

MacL(00004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

MacL(00001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[emfrat]

This may be of interest here, although perhaps it should be in the history thread.
In April 1917, as a teenager, P.G "Bill" Taylor was flying an RFC Sopwith Pup in France. I scanned the photos from his book 'Sopwith Scout 7309' along with a section of text describing how he modified his plane and made a leather face mask after a patrol at 12,000 feet when his nose got froze. Taylor survived WW1 and went on to receive a George Cross for saving the 'Southern Cross' after a smashed propellor blade forced a return to Sydney, 8 hours into a trans-Tasman flight. He was later knighted for his services to aviation as a pioneer navigator and pilot.

[Charl]

Interesting. In war you always are working the angles, hoping to find a small edge either of comfort or advantage.
Even so far as to claim a "Draught-free cockpit" in something which essentially is open to the elements, at 20,000ft!

[jankees]

I'm working on another Camal with a kiwi pilot, Captain Harold Beamish 'TIKI'

Screenshot (17819) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[hasegawa]

How does it fly? It doesn't have the best reputation and there is evidence in the literature that many have been lost during the training of young pilots.

[emfrat]

How does it fly? It doesn't have the best reputation and there is evidence in the literature that many have been lost during the training of young pilots.

Andreas - This article taught me a lot. I always knew taking off with a big rotary called for a bootful of rudder - now I know why.
It is a long article but the first half is about constructing the replica plane. Scroll down about halfway until the group photo appears. The flight comments start a couple of paragraphs above that.
In AFS4 I have a Camel and a community dev has made a Snipe for it, so it will be interesting to compare them.

https://www.key.aero/article/taming-little-beast

ATB
MikeW