The Sopwith Pup was a British single seater fighter biplane built by the Sopwith Aviation company. It entered active service with the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in the autumn of 1916. It enjoyed a very good maneouvrability and was very pleasant to fly, proving to be very successful. It was outclassed by German fighters but, however, it wasn't taken out from active service in the Western Front until the last part of 1917. The remaining airplanes were used for training and Home Defence duties. Thanks to it's great maneouvering characteristics, it was used for carrier take-off and landing experiments.
Some versions of it were made:
- Sopwith Admiralty Type 9901: The RNAS designation
- Sopwith Pup: The unofficial, most famous designation. (The official one was Sopwtih Scout)
- Sopwith Dove: Two seater civilian version
- Alcock Scout: Ad-Hoc version built from scratch using the remains of a crashed Pup.
- Beardmore Type 9901a: The prototype of the Beardmore W.B.III
- Beardmore W.B. III: Shipboard variant designed to fold into the smallest possible volume.
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