Editing Sopwith Cuckoo (section)

==Operational history==
[[File:Sopwith Cuckoo.jpg|thumb|right|Cuckoo launching practice torpedo]]

After undergoing service trials at [[RAF East Fortune]], the T.1 was recommended for squadron service. Deliveries to the Torpedo Aeroplane School at East Fortune commenced in early August 1918. Training took place in the [[Firth of Forth]], where  Cuckoos launched practice torpedoes at targets towed by destroyers. Cuckoos of No. 185 Squadron embarked on [[HMS Argus (I49)|HMS ''Argus'']] in November 1918, but hostilities ended before the aircraft could conduct any combat operations.<ref name="Davis p123">Davis 1999, p. 123.</ref>

In service, the aircraft was generally popular with pilots because the airframe was strong and water landings were safe. The T.1 was easy to control and was fully aerobatic without a torpedo payload.<ref name="Robertson p127">Robertson 1970, p. 127.</ref> The Arab engine proved unsatisfactory, however, and approximately 20 T.1s were converted to use [[Wolseley Viper]] engines.<ref name="Thetford Navy p318">Thetford 1978, p. 318.</ref> These aircraft, later designated Cuckoo Mk. IIs, could be distinguished by the Viper's lower thrust line. The Arab-engined variant was designated Cuckoo Mk. I.<ref name="Davis p123">Davis 1999, p. 123.</ref>

The Cuckoo's operational career ended when the last unit to use the type, [[No. 210 Squadron RAF|No. 210 Squadron]], disbanded at Gosport on 1 April 1923.<ref name="Thetford Navy p318">Thetford 1978, p. 318.</ref> The Cuckoo was replaced in service by the [[Blackburn Dart]].

===Planned use===
Throughout 1917, Commodore Sueter proposed plans for an [[aerial torpedo]] attack on the German [[High Seas Fleet]] at its base in Germany.<ref name="Layman Naval p191">Layman 2002, p. 191.</ref> The carriers ''Argus'', {{HMS|Furious|47|2}}, and {{HMS|Campania|1914|2}} and the converted cruisers {{HMS|Courageous|50|2}} and {{HMS|Glorious||2}}, were to have launched 100 Cuckoos from the North Sea.<ref name="Layman Naval p191">Layman 2002, p. 191.</ref> In September 1917, Admiral [[Sir David Beatty]], commander of the [[Grand Fleet]], proposed a similar plan involving 120 Cuckoos launched from eight converted merchant vessels.<ref name="Layman Naval p192">Layman 2002, p. 192.</ref>