Notable Appearances in Media
The Camel appears in literature and popular media as:
- One of the aircraft flown by Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown in the 2008 movie The Red Baron.
- The single-seater scout flown by the Royal Flying Corps Squadron in the semi-autobiographical, First World War air combat book Winged Victory written by Victor Maslin Yeates.
- The fighter flown by Biggles in the novels by W.E. Johns during the character's spell in 266 Squadron during the First World War. He also wrote a book, The Camels Are Coming.
- The "plane" of Snoopy in the Peanuts comic strip, when he imagines himself as a World War I flying ace and the nemesis of the Red Baron.
- The type of aircraft flown in the First World War by John and Bayard Sartoris in William Faulkner's Flags in the Dust.
- In the Percy Jackson book The Titan's Curse, Annabeth's father, a historian, uses a restored and modified Sopwith Camel to aid the heroes at one point during the novel.
- The plane used during the climactic aerial battle scenes in the 1975 film "The Great Waldo Pepper", starring Robert Redford.
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