Sopwith Snipe - Part 1 - Kermie Cam 

Looks good.

(No funnel?) Sharing the fun like this is so fine and greatly appreciated! My grandfather sold castor oil to the Army in World War One. Also, there's an outfit in Germany making Bentley radials now (also a 5 cyl.1920's BMW radial for lightplanes like the Kiebitz ,) and the videos are up here somewhere on youtube.

Thank you so much for making such Videos, please never Stop it ; )

Kermit is King !! Keep these videos coming Kermit, I love ´em :-)

The very old brand name of the Wakefield Oil Company- Castrol is from the use of castor oil. The company is now called Castrol although it is now a part of BP.

Great video as usual! (:

One of my grandads was a rigger in WW1 and he used to tell me when I objected to being dosed by my mum with castor oil that fighter pilots took it regularly. He didn't explain how at the time, but I guess they weren't taking it with a spoon.

Maybe the best fighter of WWI... just too bad it came out so late in the war. What a beauty! Thanks for the video. (Also, there's something about an iPhone in a 1918 biplane that tickles me.)

The original death trap.

😃 Espectacular muy bien 😃👍👍

This is a flying work-of-art. I want one...So how much would one of these cost?

Cool plane!! :)

I am curous how You¨ll handle this aircraft with that big rotary engine :) Good luck Kermit!

...you deserve the 'Blue Max' for that documentary.........captured technology of the sub-human Englisher fascinates us.....please keep Sopwith in one piece....for us to poop on..........MvR

I wonder if the original Snipes had that nice seat cushion that flips in place over the fuel cap?! 😅

Just give me five. Reminds me of my younger days when I could scrap together a few bucks for gas(for the car of course). Didn't see a full take of gas except for on a rare occasion.

That would be Billy Bishop. Billy Barker was a famous English Canadian prospector.

why did you remove the fuel screen and fuel, instead of leaving it in and allowing it to screen the fuel?

I know I know a lot about the British aircraft and I really miss the chance of ever being up close to one again I really like to shop with I even like the camel is well someone has to spin the propeller to get started They didn't start the automatic ignition until after 1900 And it was a really automatic admitting ignition that hoping you have a safe flight and I really wish I was there with you bye

The pilot sits on the fuel tank. Scary!!!

In Pt 2, During the Pre Flight Checks, point out the "Landing and Flying wires".

"biggest rotary ever made" Actually the Bentley BR 2 wasn't the biggest in terms of size. The Siemens Halske SH.III was 11 cylinders (160-240 HP), the Gnome Delta-Delta was a two row rotary of 18 cylinders (200 hp) and there were a few scary experimental four row rotaries.

Congatuations on another great video! A word or two about rotary radials. The very first weren't airpane engines at all, they were motorcycle engines adapted by early aero experimenters in the 1880's. Clerget in France for instance. Use your imagination and picture a wheel and tire on the outside circumference of the engine with the cylinders becoming spokes of a wheel. Now capture the crankshaft in the rear frame... Voila! Now imagine you're an enterprizing early aeroplane inventor and you need a lightweight powerplant for your creation. Of course! Just like today, you can adapt almost any engine to a homebuilt airplane, so did many early experimenters in Europe. Not so much in this country where the Wright Brothers were engaged in trying to profit from their contraption by patenting the airplane and were forced by patent laws to produce their own engine. At the same time, Glen Curtiss was using his own Curtiss OX V8 liquid cooled motorcycle engine toward the same end. I find it difficult to credit the Wright's wholly with the invention of the airplane after they followed in the footsteps of other great inventors like the German Otto Lillienthal, Brazillian Santoz Dumont in France and others. Although plagued by the inherant drawbacks of the Rotory, it was pretty much all there was without desgning an engine from scratch. Specfically, the relatively heavy spinning crankcase caused dangerous gyroscopic precession to occur in the control inputs for instance, plus the difficulty in throttling the beast with only a rudementry carburator. Now, WWI comes along with a pressing need for military aircraft... more power, better range and reliability. What do you do, but re-invent the rotory engine with more power, range and reliability. Bigger and bigger rotories with even worse inherant problems. The reason the Bentley was the last in the line was because it reached the limit of the technology and was soon surpassed by fixed radial and liquid cooled engines untill turbojets came along. And the castor oil? On the total loss oil systems of the early engines, it proved to be far less combustable thereby providing better lubrication and less of a fire danger when pumped directly into the induction manifold, combustion chambers and out the exhaust. We had to use plenty of turpentine and elbow grease on our Neuport 24bis replica powered by a Le Rhone 80hp from a Thomas-Morse Scout to remove the gunk. peace-out..Tc

@ 8.00 MINS , MY MOTHER USE TO SAY ITS GOOD FOR THE STOMACH TOO

I've read that castor oil also makes you a "regular" guy. Have you had any experience with it?

How does the fuel in the lower seat tank get to the higher header tank for the engine..?

love the devil on the gun

Great plane for constipation ;)

the castor oil also gave the pilots loose stools ;)

how do the spark plugs wires rotate with the engine?

when the metalfilter is in you can use it as toilet too right ? :P

awesome videos - hehe, beauty secret, castor oil on your face. Love your videos.

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Where is the rest of this series?

Kermit; Did you mean to say Billy Bishop instead of Barker?.....Hal

If that was me I'd have had a extension tube made to fuel it up easier.

So you sit on the fuel tank? So if it catches fire, you're basically stuffed right away I guess lol.

Ah Yeah? I love airplanes,however, I am no so sure you would get me into one of those things or not? It's a kite with an engine. A Stearman is about the only thing you could get me into that has 2 wings and an open coclpit. Sorry Kermit. Cool video though.

It's amazing a bucket of bolts (and I mean this in the most loving, respectful way possible) like that can even get down the runway, let alone fly, LET ALONE take on the Germans!

WWII Invasion stripes? Good luck with that.

Where do I get the hood ornament?

Oh lordy they didn't care about their pilots did they. Sat them on top of a Molotov cocktail.

6:07 What is the purpose of that round horn like object on the small strut right there in the middle?

Does a Snoopy Sopwith camel exist?

So how does a rotary engine gets its fuel?

Where's the red Baron?

That thing looks hairy dude.

Windex good for removing Castor.

Flatulence assist ?

nothing like sitting on the gas tank to settle the nerves