Talk:Sopwith Triplane

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I have a lovely picture of a Sopwith Triplane in restoration. Although, the only problem is that it's somewhat mediocre in terms of lighting and quality, I can make the quality a bit better, but should be allow the picture to be up? It's quite a good picture. - RPharazon

Contents 1 YES! 2 Copyright of main picture 3 Major "Style" edit of Design and Development 4 Total numbers built

[edit] YES!

YES! By all means! If you can, upload it to Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org) so no copyright hound will complain over it. Then put it in Category:World_War_I_aircraft. Looking forward to it!

There. I did what I could to make it a little better. Such a nice change to a color version, especially one in such good restoration in these days! - RPharazon

I have lightened it and adjusted the contrast. Nice picture. Ian Dunster 23:05, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright of main picture

This picture of no. 1 squadron RNAS is a well known one, and has been frequently published - it has absolutely no connection whatsoever with Russia - or the single example of the triplane that somehow found its way to that country. I mention this because the PD tag is obviously the wrong one!!

[edit] Major "Style" edit of Design and Development

This was in several places rather unclear - and had many "echoes" of a well-known source (possibly to the extent of breaching copyright). I have re-written much of it to convey basically the same information rather more elegantly, anyway. Soundofmusicals 22:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Total numbers built

After referring to a number of different sources, Peter M. Bowers and Ernest R. McDowell's Triplanes: A Pictorial History of the World's Triplanes and Multiplanes (1993) has the most authoritative listing of all production contracts and emphatically declares there were only 147 Triplanes built, including prototypes. FWIW Bzuk (talk) 15:20, 2 March 2008 (UTC).