In order to design an aircraft that was superior to any produced in Germany, the design team at Sopwith in early 1916 designed a triplane, this machine having three narrow chord wings but the wing area giving plenty of lift.

A further design by the Stoddard Hamilton organisation at Arlington, Washington, like the Glasair the GlaStar is produced in kit form and has become very popular, providing good performance on the power available.

The Bushbaby is South Africa’s most successful kit aircraft, produced in some numbers since the early 1990s.