The Sopwith 'Python'

SOPWITH PYTHON

With the operational success of the "Camel" the sopwith design team set out to produce their most radical and ambitious fighter yet.The Sopwith python took to the air in September of 1918.Despite its unorthodox look the "Python" Was a structurally sound machine.High maneuverable and armed with four belt fed vickers machine guns,twice firepower of most its german counterparts,the python was an unnerving sight to the German Imperial Air Service.Placing the two poer plants becide each other counteracthed the problem of gyroscopic rotation that plagued the F1 "Camel".Lansings proved to be more diffucult...

Only a Handful of Pythons were Produced and only two found teir way to the combat squadrons on the Western Front.There are no reported combat Victories by either machine.No Examples of this unique aircraft survive today.


Inspired from Robert Fitzgerald 's "revisionism" series.