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The Sopwith Camel was one of the best British fighters in WW1, which followed a series of earlier Sopwith designs. It was a great fighter and was agile to fly. This British aircraft was credited with downing more enemy aircraft than any other Allied plane. However, it was a little tricky during landing and take-off and almost as many of them were destroyed by accidents as destroyed in combat.

The aircraft got its name "Camel" because of the hump on top of the fuselage behind the engine cowling that partially covered the twin machine guns.

Actually only about 400 were destroyed, most in training accidents, with over 1,294 confirmed victories in World War I.

It was flown by British, American and Canadian pilots mainly, but because the engine rotated around a stationary crankshaft there was a lot of torque on the airframe. To an unsuspecting pilot this could put them in great danger.

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