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Sopwith Aviation Company - Images of Aviation (Paperback)
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In the autumn of 1910, when he was twenty-two years old, Tommy
Sopwith bought himself an aeroplane, took it to Brooklands
aerodrome and taught himself to fly. In those early days he soon
achieved prominence, capturing Britain's endurance and distance
records - and the attention of King George V - within weeks of his
first flight. He could hardly have imagined then, however, that
just two years later he would be head of the Sopwith Aviation
Company, nor that during the coming conflict that were to emerge
from its workshops - and those of its many sub-contractors -
thousands of Britain's best warplanes: the Triplane, the Snipe, the
Dolphin, the Cuckoo and - most famously of all - the Sopwith Camel,
credited with destroying more enemy planes than any other fighter
of the First World War. He would have been even more surprised to
learn that, though this first company would not long survive the
end of hostilities, in its place would arise a new one which, under
his guidance, was in the course of time to grow into the giant
Hawker-Siddeley Group. But that is beyong the scope of this book,
which focuses on those early days when a young man took up flying
as a sport, only to find that he had evolved into an aviation
entrepreneur.
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