Sopwith Two-Seat Scout
# Sopwith Two-Seat Scout

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.

## 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 $m^2)$
* 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
