Editing Sopwith Camel (section)

==Notable appearances in media==
[[Biggles]] flies a Sopwith Camel in the novels by [[W. E. Johns]] during Biggles's spell in 266 Squadron during the First World War.  The first collection of Biggles stories, titled ''The Camels are Coming'', was published in 1932. The first two collections of stories (broken into three books in Australia) were all true stories or events, lightly fictionalised—some of them are identifiable in official war records, e.g., the accidental discovery of a major camouflaged airfield when rescuing a downed pilot.<ref name = Butts>{{cite book |last = Butts | first = D | editor1-first= T |editor1-last= Watkins |editor2-first = D | editor2-last = Jones |title=A Necessary Fantasy?: The Heroic Figure in Children's Popular Culture |publisher=[[Routledge|Garland Publishing]] | chapter = Biggles – Hero of the Air |location=New York |year=2000 |pages= [https://books.google.com/books?id=3UTyDNVjYxoC&pg=PA137 137–152] |isbn=0-8153-1844-8 }}</ref>

The Sopwith Camel was featured as a flyable aircraft in the [[Microsoft Flight Simulator]] series, starting with [[Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0]], released in November 1982.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0VKjwnGrhNwC&pg=PA508 | title=Into the Wild Blue Yonder with Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 | accessdate=21 November 2024 | author=Jeff Prosise | date=31 October 1988 | publisher=PC Mag | pages=508}}</ref> Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 was the last version to include the Sopwith Camel with the game.

The Camel is the "plane" of [[Snoopy]] in the ''[[Peanuts]]'' comic strip, when he imagines himself as a World War I flying ace and the nemesis of the [[Manfred von Richthofen|Red Baron]].<ref>Murphy and McNiece 2003, p. 87.</ref>