The Sopwith Camel is a British single-seat biplane fighter designed by Herbert Smith and built by the Sopwith Aviation Company, entering Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force service in June 1917. Powered by a rotary engine and armed with twin synchronized 0.303 inch Vickers machine guns housed under a distinctive hump-shaped fairing that gave the aircraft its name, the Camel concentrated roughly 90 percent of its weight in its front two meters, making it extremely maneuverable but demanding to fly. Camel pilots were credited with downing 1,294 enemy aircraft, more than any other Allied fighter of the First World War, out of approximately 5,490 built, and the type continued in limited service through the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War before its withdrawal from RAF service in January 1920.
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Weapon ClassBiplane fighter aircraft 1 Introduced Year Classification
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World War I, Wars The Sopwith Camel, credited with more aerial victories than any other Allied fighter, fought through the final years of World War I
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WikipediaLead paragraph, first sentence (aircraft type)
The Sopwith Camel is a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft that was introduced on the Western Front in 1917.
Lead paragraph, first sentence (introduction year)
The Sopwith Camel is a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft that was introduced on the Western Front in 1917.
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retired = January 1920
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Used In: Russian Civil War, Wikipedia article text
Multiple British squadrons were deployed into Russia as a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
Used In: World War I, Wikipedia article text
The Sopwith Camel is a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft that was introduced on the Western Front in 1917.
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