The Bit That Actually Makes it Fly
Camels usually have four legs, a bit of a hump or two and a somewhat unpredictable temperament.
Not so this 1917 Sopwith Camel though, which has four wings at the front instead of a leg at each corner, and that bit that usually threatens to spit in your face or bite your arm if you look at it the wrong way, has been replaced by a nine cylinder radial engine, a nice wooden propeller and dual synchronised machine guns.
I'm not sure that the mammalian version (The Mammal Camel, if you will) actually has any built-in heavy weaponry, synchronised or otherwise, but I do suspect that you'd really know it if one of them decided to kick you.
Of course, that nice wooden propellor will properly kill you if you get on the wrong side of it when it's having a turn, but, generally speaking, the mechanical camel variant is much better behaved than its humpy counterpart. The one pictured above allowed me to go right up to it when taking the portrait that you see here.
Such are the joys of the Goodwood Revival.
The Bit That Actually Makes it Fly
Camels usually have four legs, a bit of a hump or two and a somewhat unpredictable temperament.
Not so this 1917 Sopwith Camel though, which has four wings at the front instead of a leg at each corner, and that bit that usually threatens to spit in your face or bite your arm if you look at it the wrong way, has been replaced by a nine cylinder radial engine, a nice wooden propeller and dual synchronised machine guns.
I'm not sure that the mammalian version (The Mammal Camel, if you will) actually has any built-in heavy weaponry, synchronised or otherwise, but I do suspect that you'd really know it if one of them decided to kick you.
Of course, that nice wooden propellor will properly kill you if you get on the wrong side of it when it's having a turn, but, generally speaking, the mechanical camel variant is much better behaved than its humpy counterpart. The one pictured above allowed me to go right up to it when taking the portrait that you see here.
Such are the joys of the Goodwood Revival.