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Designed by Herbert Smith as a successor to the Sopwith Pup and Triplane, the Sopwith Camel, introduced in December 1916, was far from docile aircraft with some vicious tendencies that resulted in the demise of many trainee pilots. For those who mastered it, turning its idiosyncracies to there advantage in combat, it was a superb fighting machine, and was credited with destroying more enemy aircraft than any other Allied type.
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