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The Sopwith Two-Seat Scout (or Type 880) was a 1910s
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biplane Anti-Zeppelin scout biplane designed and built for the Admiralty by the
Sopwith Aviation Company
The Sopwith Aviation Company was a British aircraft company that designed and manufactured aeroplanes mainly for the British Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps and later the Royal Air Force during the First World War, most famously ...
. It was nicknamed the Spinning Jenny due to a tendency to enter a spin.
Design and development
First flown in November 1914 the Two-Seat Scout was developed from the
1914 Circuit of Britain seaplane. It was two-bay unswept biplane with equal span wings and ailerons fitted on all four wings and a braced tailplane and a single rudder. It had a fixed tailskid landing gear with a cross-axle type main gear with twin wheels carried on vee legs under the fuselage. It was powered by a nose-mounted 100 hp (75 kW)
Gnome Monosoupape
The ''Monosoupape'' ( French for single-valve), was a rotary engine design first introduced in 1913 by Gnome Engine Company (renamed Gnome et Rhône in 1915). It used a clever arrangement of internal transfer ports and a single pushrod-operated ...
rotary engine driving a two-bladed propeller. It had two tandem open cockpits and could carry small bombs under the fuselage.
Operators
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Royal Naval Air Service
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps t ...
Specifications
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{{Sopwith Aviation Company aircraft
1910s British bomber aircraft
Two-Seat Scout
Aircraft first flown in 1914
Rotary-engined aircraft