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The Sopwith Two-Seat Scout (or Type 880) was a 1910s British biplane Anti-Zeppelin scout biplane designed and built for the Admiralty by the Sopwith Aviation Company. It was nicknamed the Spinning Jenny due to a tendency to enter a spin.

Sopwith Two-Seat Scout
Role	Anti-Zeppelin biplane Type of aircraft
Manufacturer	Sopwith Aviation Company
First flight	1914
Primary user	Royal Naval Air Service
Number built	24

Design and development

First flown in November 1914 the Two-Seat Scout was developed from the 1914 Circuit of Britain seaplane. It was two-bay unswept biplane with equal span wings and ailerons fitted on all four wings and a braced tailplane and a single rudder. It had a fixed tailskid landing gear with a cross-axle type main gear with twin wheels carried on vee legs under the fuselage. It was powered by a nose-mounted 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine driving a two-bladed propeller. It had two tandem open cockpits and could carry small bombs under the fuselage.

Operators

 United Kingdom

• Royal Naval Air Service

Specifications

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Length: 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
• Wingspan: 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m)
• Height: 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m)
• Wing area: 440 sq ft (41 m²)
• Empty weight: 1,160 lb (526 kg)
• Gross weight: 1,800 lb (816 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Gnome Monosoupape nine-cylinder air-cooled rotary engine , 100 hp (75 kW)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 69 mph (111 km/h, 60 kn)
• Endurance: 3 hours 30 minutes

See also

Related lists

• List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service
• List of flying boats and floatplanes

References

• Bruce, J.M. (1957). British Aeroplanes 1914–18. London: Putnam.
• Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions.
• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985). Orbis Publishing. p. 2940.

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