Sopwith snipe
Sopwith snipe
- A use: Fighter
- A classification: Biplane
- A designer: Herbert Smith
- A manufacturer: Sopwith アビエーション
- The operational person ** Royal Air Force
- Maiden flight: October, 1917
- The number of the production: 2,097 planes
- An operational start: 1918
- Military retirement: 1926
The Sopwith 7F.1 snipe (Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe) is a single seat wings of a biplane fighter of the Royal Air Force. I designed it, and it was produced during World War I by Sopwith アヴィエーション company.
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A design and development
It was the most famous airplane of the company, and, in early 1917, Herbert Smith who was a chief designer of Sopwith Corporation started succession of the Sopwith camel that was an interesting plane and the design of the fighter that it was.
There were some small technical problems with the prototype of the snipe. The maximum velocity in particular was less than expectation from a beginning. The snipe was not a high-speed plane even in those days.
The structure of the snipe became heavier than early Sopwith fighter, but was very tough. I was not able to say the high-speed plane at the stage of 1918, but mobility was very good, and the view from the cockpit had particularly good front and upper part, and handling it was much than camel easier. In addition, the snipe was superior even in the rate of climb, and the substratospheric altitude performance was more excellent than the airplane before it, too and was able to fight against the German new model fighter than equality. Further improvement was given a snipe in wartime, postwar period. The snipe was made assuming the Bentley BR2 engine which was the last rotary engine used in the Royal Air Force and showed maximum velocity of 195km/h for 185km/h of the camel at altitude of 10,000 feet and had again 3-hour duration. The fixed armament was two ヴィッカース 7.7mm machine guns of the cowling top surface and I added it and was able to be equipped with a maximum of four 25 pounds (11 kg) of bombs for ground attack use. This was the same as camel. I was able to attach one Lewis machine gun to the center like Sopwith porpoise at the design stage, but was not adopted with the production type.
As for the snipe, the ordering more than 4,500 was carried out, and production was started in 1918, but I was canceled in the place that produced a little less than 500 planes in 1919, and it was canceled by war end remaining. The type of the snipe was only one kind of snipe I, but the production was carried out in plural companies of Sopwith, Boulton pole, Coventry Aude Nance, Napier & sun, new pole, ラシュトン Proctor.
Two snipe replaced an engine with a fried ABC dragon star type engine of 320HP, and production was carried out as Sopwith dragon. As for the armor type, production was carried out as Sopwith salamander.
Operational career
In March, 1918, the prototype got a high evaluation from the first plane supply depot (Aeroplane Supply Depot, No. 1 ASD). The Captain L, N Holling Hearst (I became an ace in Sopwith porpoises later and finally became Air Chief Marshal) rose to 24,000 feet in 45 minutes.
The snipe unfolded in France with the 43rd squadron in September, 1918. In addition, I was deployed in the Australian flying corps (AFC) in October. And I changed a model of the 208th squadron from camel in November, but this was not enough for the actual fighting.
Canada became after the war and managed a snipe, but retired in 1923 one year before R.C.A.F. (RCAF) was formed.
The war participation of the snipe was a few periods, but I handled various duties and demonstrated that it was a convincing fighter.
The most famous event about the snipe happened to the Canadian pilot of the Royal Air Force 201st squadron, Major William George Barker on October 27, 1918. The major flew then over a forest of French molar Malle. The snipe (No.E8102) of Barker should have been one-time use with a thing brought for a personal evaluation purpose in conjunction with the training duty in his British own country. When I was going to right go back to the U.K. in the last of the period to update actual fighting experience of Barker of 2 weeks, the battle was caused. As the last fight in the French battlefield sky, the Major Barker attacked a German double seats machine and easily shot it down. However, Barker was also attacked immediately by フォッカー D.VII fighter. It was shot down the trace that the plane showed some resistance, but Barker continued being attacked alone afterwards by a Germany in World War I's leading excellent fighter and 60 formation of done D.VII. Barker during the war got injured three times and lost some そのたびごとに awareness. The subsequent confused fight was witnessed by an Allied Forces soldier of enormous numbers. Although a snipe of 乗機 was destroyed at the time of a landing, Barker was able to come back somehow to the front of British troops. Barker was presented with Victoria cross decoration by this heroic battle. The last battle report (because Barker got injured, another person described it) of this case reports the shooting down of three enemy planes (written as four planes in the testimonial of the decoration).
The snipe got inside a significant number of victory between a few seasons during the Great War. In 1919, the snipe was used for interference operation of the allied powers which supported White Army opposed to a Russian communist in a civil war following the Russian Revolution. A snipe of few Royal Air Force was captured by a Russian communist and was sent to the operational unit on this occasion.
The snipe was chosen as a standard single seat fighter of the postwar Royal Air Force, and it was used, and it was that it was in 1926 that the last snipe retired.
Operational person
- The British Air Corps / Royal Air Force
- The first / 3 / 17 / 19 / 23 / 25 / 29 / 32 / 37 / 41 / 43 / 45 / 56 / 70 / 71 / 78 / 80 / 81 / 111 / 112 / 143 / 201 / 208 squadron
- Australian Air Corps
- The fourth squadron (France) / fifth (training) squadron (the U.K.) / eighth (training) squadron (the U.K.)
- R.C.A.F.
- The first squadron
Performance specifications
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Specifications
- A crew: One person
- Full length: 5.84m (19'2")
- Overall height: 2.90m (9'6")
- Wingspread: 9.47m (31'1")
- A wing area: 25.46m2 (274 ft2)
- Emptiness weight: 590 kg (1,305 pounds)
- Operational time weight: 955 kg (2,105 pounds)
- Power: Bentley BR2 rotary engine, 172kW (230 hp) *1
Performance
- Maximum velocity: 195km/h (3,050m)
- A flying range: Three hours
- Service ceiling: 6,100m
- The rate of climb: It is nine minutes 25 seconds to 296m/m, 3,050m (10,000 feet)
Armament
- Fixed armament: 7,7 mm ヴィッカース machine gun *2
- Bomb: 25 pounds (11 kg) of bomb *4
Allied item
Reference materials
- Franks, Norman. Dolphin and Snipe Aces of World War I (Aircraft of the Aces). London: Osprey Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-84176-317-9.
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