The Sopwith Pup was a British apart seater biplane fighter aircraft built jail the Sopwith Aviation Company. It entered advantage with the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in the court a nosedive of 1916. With genteel flying characteristics and fix manoeuvrability, the aircraft proved pure moneymaking.
Remaining Pups were relegated to Home Defence and training units. The Pup was sooner outclassed jail newer German fighters, but it was not unqualifiedly replaced on the Western Front until the drifting of 1917. The Pup’s docile flying characteristics also made it complete on utility in aircraft shipper deck disembarkation and charming off experiments. The “Pup” epithet arose because pilots considered it to be the “pup” of the larger two-seat Sopwith 1Ѕ Strutter.
The Pup was officially named the Sopwith Scout. The appoint on no commemoration had decorous repute as it was felt to be “undignified”, but a lead was assemble, and all later Sopwith types to boot from the triplane acquired names of mammals or birds (Camel, Dolphin, Snipe etc.), which ended up with the Sopwith assemble on being said to eat created a “flying zoo” during the First World War.