Britain last week showed off a delta-wing plane, the Gloster Javelin, which its builder thinks is the fastest, longest-range, all-weather day & night fighter ever built. Nobody needed to guess who the ...

A few years ago my friend Javier Arango and I got to talking about certain oft-repeated statements about the airplanes of World War I. Javier has a collection of very accurate reproductions of World ...

Tom Kozura's New Year's Resolution probably reads a bit differently from the rest of ours: "Make significant progress on building an authentic reproduction of a World ...

Comstock Park — A Sopwith Camel crashed somewhere between Lincoln and Felsted in eastern England on Aug. 24, 1917. The fighter plane was en route to the Western Front. Tom Kozura has the proof. The ...

Thomas Sopwith’s 31-foot Atlantic biplane was built to win Britain’s £10,000 transatlantic prize. Powered by a single 360-hp Rolls-Royce engine, it carried 400 gallons of fuel for a 25-hour flight.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Single-engine, single-seat, British-built World War I biplane fighter; 230 horsepower Bentley B.R.2 engine; Olive drab ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Sopwith Camel is among the most significant and famous of all WWI aircraft. Camels downed 1,294 enemy aircraft, ...

One of the most iconic planes of the First World War will appear in the skies again next spring. Volunteers at the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, B.C., have built two replicas of the Sopwith ...