Sopwith Two-Seat Scout

The Sopwith Two-Seat Scout, also known as the Type 880 and nicknamed the Spinning Jenny for its tendency to enter a spin, was a British anti-Zeppelin biplane designed and built for the Admiralty by Sopwith in the 1910s. It first flew in November 1914 and was developed from the 1914 Circuit of Britain seaplane. The two-bay biplane had equal-span wings with ailerons on all four, a braced tailplane, a single rudder and a tailskid undercarriage. A nose-mounted 100 horsepower Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine drove a two-bladed propeller, and the two crew sat in tandem open cockpits. It could carry small bombs under the fuselage, and the Royal Naval Air Service was its operator, with 24 built.