Sopwith and his designer, Harry Hawker, formed a new company, H.G. Hawker Engineering. Sopwith stayed in the background, but ...
From canvas biplanes to stealthy jets, air superiority has been defined by a handful of warplanes that forced every rival to ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Sopwith Camel is among the most significant and famous of all WWI aircraft. Camels downed 1,294 enemy aircraft, ...
Britain last week showed off a delta-wing plane, the Gloster Javelin, which its builder thinks is the fastest, longest-range, all-weather day & night fighter ever built. Nobody needed to guess who the ...
1847 - An Army-Navy force begins the siege of Veracruz, Mexico. Approximately 12,000 U.S. troops land on the beaches, along with their horses, mules, artillery, and supplies. Veracruz surrenders March ...