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From: silber@cs.uiuc.edu (Ami A. Silberman)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Rotary engine airplane troubles
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Date: 31 Oct 89 04:06:47 GMT
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From: "Ami A. Silberman" <silber@cs.uiuc.edu>

>Sopwith also built a triplane (the Sopwith Triplane - wow!) which I saw
>a photo of in a book once. It looked very similar to the famous Fokker
>machine. Who copied who ?

Fokker copied Sopwith.  As an interesting aside, the Royal Navy used Sopwith
Triplanes.  (From land bases, of course.)  One of their squadrons was an
all Black unit, and had at least one ace.

ami silberman, janitor of lunacy