Dear Sir/Madam,
I have authored a book titled 'Aircraft Design' published by Cambridge University Press. In my next publication titled 'Aircraft Performance' and in the 2nd edition of 'Aircraft Design', I wish to use this 3-view diagram of the Sopwith Camel.
I will be grateful if you kind allow me to use the selected one, of course acknowledged with the credit 'Courtesy of......',.
Thanking you.

You will notice that its rudder and fin are unusualy small. This is surprising, seeng the tremendous torque developed by its rotary engine.

Maybe revisionist history, but the latest I read is that the Red Baron was brought down by ground fire.

It was a sonovabitch!!

Is the following well known?
"Hang up your Gold Star, mother. Your son's going up in a Sop."

I've been told that around 12 pints of castor oil per hour go straight out of the engine during flight (all over the pilot - and anyone behind i guess!). I can imagine the poor pilot permanently in a "goggle-wipe" status...!

As Major James Bigglesworth said "if you can fly a Sopwith Camel you can fly anything!" As stated because of the engine torque due to the rotary engine and a concentration of pilot, guns & engine in the front an inexperienced pilot often 'spun' into the ground. In the hands of a good pilot it was a formidable machine. Many of the aces flew SE5a's.Reference Cross & Cockade Internetional for WW1 aviation history.

I heard that alot of WW1 pilots died trying to master the camel.But why the heck did it have such terrible maneuverability?

My Dad, Jack Egerton Philbrick, RAF, flew them.His RoyalAero club Certificate No.6196 was awarded on 20/3/1918.
I have a pen and ink drawing of tha Camel by my father's friend and fellow pilot, Douglas E. Culver, who referred to the plane as the "Little Beast"

To a pilot this plane was Marmite (yeast extract spred) they either loved it or hated it. You could say it was 80 years ahead of its time with unstable flight to get maximum manouverability. It was just as likely to kill its own pilot as an enermy.

I'm in the course of reading "Winged Victory" by V M Yeates. Essential reading for anyone interested in Camels. I suspect you've pre-empted the last chapter!