* * The Sopwith Cuckoo * *

[Radooh]

Nice shots! but it sorta looks like the curtiss jenny and it has a weird name :-tongue

[steve7fm]

Excellent Jerry. Top one is a real gem..

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[elcamino]

>>Nice shots! but it sorta looks like the curtiss jenny and it has a weird name.

It does look like a Jenny.

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Thanks Steve!!



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[center][font color="red" size="2" face="comic sans MS"]Great Shots mate, interesting little aircraft :)[/font color="red" size="2" face="comic sans MS"][font color="green"]

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[mcwdainow]

great shots Jerry! :-)
I've never heard of the Cuckoo before, shes looks cool..

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[Convairboy]

Thanks for sharing, Jerry...another "classic"...
I dont know why Microsoft left the default Sopwith out..I just added it the other day...
more and more I'm using FS2004 for the classics...
lets face it, those 2-slow-fps-D panels are "killing" my flying experience...
I tried to use another sweet one, the "Canuck" everything is fine, except for the propeller...doesnt show.:(
nevertheless, sweet model !
rc

[Chessie_Flyer]

Nice shots Jerry, and plane. Thanks for the "history" lesson.

Rob

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[FlyingKiwi]

Well I've certainly learned something new! :-lol

[elcamino]

The Cuckoo was designed towards the end of the Great War and much of its potential was not utilised. It has been
suggested that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour during WW2 was based around the British attack of the Italian
Fleet in Taranto the previous year. However, the Royal Navy Grand Fleet had a plan to attack the German High Seas
Fleet at harbour, the planned date being overtaken by the signing of the Great War armistice, and many suggest this
was the actual plan that formed the basis of the Japanese attack years later. The plan called for 121 Cuckoos to
attack the Fleet, the aircraft being carrier based. It is unknown how successful this undertaking would have been but
with the aircraft carrying no guns, just one torpedo, it would have been an eventful attack for the pilots!
Without its torpedo the Cuckoo was quite an agile aircraft and capable of competing with many of the current fighters.

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Sopwith Cuckoo torpedo bomber by Stuart Green. SERVICE DATE: October 1918
Length: 28 ft 6 in Wing span: 46 ft 9 in Weight:empty 2,199 / grosse 3,572 lbs
Power: Sunbeam-Coatalen Arab II V-8 @ 208 bhp Max Speed: 103 mph / 166 kph Production: 150 units

Available at: http://www.advsys.co.uk/peveril/hangar/planes/cuckoo.htm
For those who like to fly history in FS2004.

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