Sopwith Camel:

Produced by Sopwith Aviation Company, this is perhaps the most iconic and well- known fighter of the Great War. With a characteristic "hump" over the two Vickers .303 machine guns, from which the Camel's namesake is derived, it had a 28 foot wingspan. Powered by a Clerget 9B air-cooled rotary-type engine, it had a max speed of 113 mph (182km/h), a 300 mi (480 km) range, and a 19000mi (5800km) service ceiling. The Camel is equally noticeable on the silver screen. The most famous is, of course, Snoopy from Peanuts, when he imagines himself to be a WW1 Flying Ace his doghouse to be a Camel, taking to the skies to battle the Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen). Also, author Captain W.E. Johns's daring pilot Biggles flew a Camel in some of his early adventures.
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| Snoopy as the World War One Flying Ace, in The Peanuts Movie. |

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