Sopwith Snipe

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as E6655, the Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe displayed by the RAF Museum: the Camel’s successor of 1918 and the RAF’s standard single-seat fighter until 1926, a two-bay biplane with horn-balanced overhanging ailerons, a 230 hp Bentley BR2 rotary in a round aluminium cowling and twin Vickers guns under a humped decking; shown as reconstructed by The Vintage Aviator in New Zealand in 2010–12 around original Snipe parts, including its engine, propeller, struts and tail surfaces, and finished as Dermot Boyle’s ‘B’ of No. 1 Squadron at Hinaidi, Iraq, in 1926: silver-doped fabric overall with a bare aluminium cowling, yellow fin and rudder horn, blue, white and red rudder stripes carrying a black ‘E’ over ‘6655’, a black ‘B’ ahead of the fuselage roundel and ‘E6655’ low on the rear fuselage, roundels on the fuselage, on top of the upper wing and under the lower wing, an outline ‘B’ under the starboard lower wing and yellow wheel covers. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 217 models · download .glb (1.1 MB) · Plate 36 in The Hangar