British WW1 Armoured biplane fighter/reconnaissance aircraft
Buffalo
Role
Armoured fighter/reconnaissance aircraft
Type of aircraft
National origin
United Kingdom
Manufacturer
Sopwith Aviation Company
First flight
19 September 1918
Status
Prototype
Number built
2
Developed from
Sopwith Bulldog
The Sopwith Buffalo was a British armoured fighter/reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War. A single-engined biplane, two examples of the Buffalo were built by Sopwith to carry out reconnaissance missions low over the trenches while protected against machine-gun fire from the ground, but no production followed, with the end of the war removing the need for such an aircraft.
SopwithBuffalo was a British armoured fighter/reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War. A single-engined biplane, two examples of the Buffalo were...
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being sighted in Lyme Bay, England, with all 36 crew missing. The SopwithBuffalo aircraft was first flown. Born: Penelope Mortimer, Welsh writer, author...
artillery spotters. No.4 Squadron entered the fighting last. Equipped with Sopwith Camels, the squadron was dispatched to a quiet sector around Lens initially...
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trainer flying boat. In 1914, Curtiss had lured B. Douglas Thomas from Sopwith to design the Model J trainer, which led to the JN-4 two-seat biplane trainer...
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national security reasons, for advertising purposes, or other reasons. The Sopwith Camel and other "fighting scouts" of World War I performed a great deal...
1984, to demonstrate its short landing capability, a de Havilland Canada Buffalo made a steep descent but hit the runway, collapsed its landing gear and...
converted to become the Royal Navy's first seaplane tender. When the rival Sopwith Special, designed from the outset as a torpedo bomber, failed to lift its...
experiments were conducted on British aircraft such as the Royal Flying Corps' Sopwith Camels to make their angle and direction difficult to judge for an enemy...
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