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- <title>
- Feb. 06, 1989: Died:Thomas Sopwith
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 06, 1989 Armed America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 78
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- <p> DIED. Thomas Sopwith, 101, British aviation pioneer who
- designed fighter planes for three wars, including the legendary
- Sopwith Camel, which shot down Germany's Red Baron in World War
- I; in King's Somborne, England. Sopwith began flying in 1910,
- but his influence on aviation continues today. Britain's Harrier
- jump jet and even Snoopy's doghouse Sopwith Camel owe their
- existence to him.
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- </body></article>
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