Sopwith Spinning Jenny

The Sopwith Two-Seater Scout or Spinning Jenny was a landplane version of the Sopwith Type 807 with equal-span wings. About twenty-four were delivered to the RNAS. It was intended as an anti-airship fighter, but the fact that its ceiling was three thousand feet when fully loaded, and its makeshift collection of light weaponry, made it unlikely to achieve success. They had a proclivity to enter a spin, and in those days few pilots knew how to recover. The Spinning Jennys were probably all withdrawn by the end of 1915.