Sopwith Triplane Armament

[yankeedog]

Greetings All
I recently got to fly a Sopwith Triplane at a gaming convention last friday. This Tripe was attributed to R.N.A.S pilot Collinshaw.
The Tripe had two vickers machine guns. Was this a personal modification, at Collinshaws request. Were other Tripes also carrying two
vickers? I have only seen pictures of Tripes with one vickers. Does any one know of other dual vickers armed Tripes?

Bob aka Yankeedog

[OldGuy59]

Rob,
It was a trial version of the Triplane, if my understanding of the situation is correct. I noted this in this thread: WGF Series 6. RCBoater responded, and provided a book reference, if you want to check the history yourself.

As noted in the above thread link, I bought 5 "Little" Triplanes to paint up as the RNAS 10 "Black Flight" group (all single gunned Tripes).

Mike

[Baldrick62]

And more here - http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...t=shuttleworth

[Zoe Brain]

From memory, there were three Triplanes with 130hp engines and 2 MGs in Collishaw's squadron. Climb suffered from the extra weight, but otherwise they performed well. The triplane was removed from service mostly because of problems with maintaining it - accessibility to certain areas was poor, and required disassembly - and because the Camel without these faults, was becoming available.

[yankeedog]

Thanks to OldGuy59, Baldrick62, and Zoe. Well I scored two victories with the tripe. I will have to get one now. Good hunting all.

yankeedog

[The Cowman]

Greetings All
I recently got to fly a Sopwith Triplane at a gaming convention last friday. This Tripe was attributed to R.N.A.S pilot Collinshaw.
The Tripe had two vickers machine guns. Was this a personal modification, at Collinshaws request. Were other Tripes also carrying two
vickers? I have only seen pictures of Tripes with one vickers. Does any one know of other dual vickers armed Tripes?

Bob aka Yankeedog

At which Convention did you play ?

[yankeedog]

Howdy Cowman
The convention was Historicon 2013, at Frederickburg, Virginia. The scenario was Dogfight over the Trenches. Bill Michaels hosted the game.

Yankeedog

[The Cowman]

Howdy Cowman
The convention was Historicon 2013, at Frederickburg, Virginia. The scenario was Dogfight over the Trenches. Bill Michaels hosted the game.

Yankeedog

Noted... and welcome to the forums!

[Flying Officer Kyte]

Noted... and welcome to the forums!

Take a look here Ken.

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...3225#post53225

I keep on doing that as well.
Rob.

[Jager]

From memory, there were three Triplanes with 130hp engines and 2 MGs in Collishaw's squadron. Climb suffered from the extra weight, but otherwise they performed well. The triplane was removed from service mostly because of problems with maintaining it - accessibility to certain areas was poor, and required disassembly - and because the Camel without these faults, was becoming available.

Zoe:
Is there enough data to warrent altering the climb rate of the twin-gunned Tripehound?
Karl

[john snelling]

Ray Collishaw said "Six experimental models were in fact fitted with twin Vickers, and I was fortunate enough to obtain one of these before leaving "Naval 10". ....I found, in fact, that although there was a definite loss in performance above 10,000ft, it was relatively slight, and having twice the firepower at my command that I had before made a big difference." from Sopwith Triplane aces of World War One. Norman Franks.

[MoonSylver]

Ray Collishaw said "Six experimental models were in fact fitted with twin Vickers, and I was fortunate enough to obtain one of these before leaving "Naval 10". ....I found, in fact, that although there was a definite loss in performance above 10,000ft, it was relatively slight, and having twice the firepower at my command that I had before made a big difference." from Sopwith Triplane aces of World War One. Norman Franks.

Spoken from one of the greatest himself. Good enough for me.