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Sopwith Camel
The Sopwith Camel was a single seat biplane dog fighter which took part in WWI. It was manafactured by the Sopwith Aviation Company. It a two twin Vickers machine guns that shot throught the propellor. Although it was hard to handle its manouverability was unbeaten. It retired in January 1920 and in that time 5,490 of those planes were made. The Camel was known for taking out 1,294 enemy aircraft whihc is more than any Allied fighter of the War. It was first flown at Brooklands by Harry Hawker. -
Hawker Harrier
The Hawker Harrier was an experimental biplane torpedo bomber it was designed by Sydney Camm and its manafacturer was Hawker Aircraft Limited. It has one forward firing Vickers gun and one Lewis gun on the rear cockpit and it also carried one torpedo bomb. The Harrier could hold two people. The Hawker Harrier was made to replace the HAwker Horsley as a high altitude bomber. It was built fot the RAF to use in the 1920s. -
Hawker Hurricane
The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the Royal Air Force. The Hawker Hurricane was developed by Sydney Camm. As a fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane was to revolutionise all future fighter plane design. Although it was overshadowed by the Supermarine Spitfire the aircraft became renowned during the Battle of Britain as it was to thank for 60% of the RAF's victories in battle. 14,583 Hurricanes were built in total -
Hawker Sea Hawk FGA 6
The Hawker Sea Hawk was designed by Sydney Camm and manafactured by Hawker Aircraft and Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft. It was a single seat jet fighter that was used by the Royal Navy. There were 542 made and it had a very recogniseable feature knon as its fold up wings. It was used on Germany Netherlands and India as well as England. In the final years of the Second World War the Hawker design team were stretching and modifying previous models andthey moved the cockpit to the front of the plane -
Hawker Hunter
The Hawker Hunter is a subsonic British jet aircraft developed in the 1950s. The single-seat Hunter entered service as a manoeuvrable fighter aircraft, and later operated in fighter-bomber and reconnaissance roles in numerous conflicts. There were two seat variants made to be used in training for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. It was manafactured by Hawker Siddley and it broke the world air speed record in 1953. There were 1,972 made and they were used in the India, Sweden and Switzerland. -
Hawker P.1127
The Hawker P.1127 was the experimental and development aircraft that led to the Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first vertical and/or short take-off and landing jet fighter-bomber. The pane was designed by Sydney Camm and Ralph Hooper and it was manafactured by Hawker Aviation and Hawker Siddley. The first three aircraft crashed during testing, one at the 1963 PAris Air Show. The Hawker P,1127 was never used to fight it was only used in test conditions to test its vertical take off manouver. -
Hawker Siddley Harrier
The Hawker Siddley Harrier was the first operating vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The Hawker Siddley HArrier was derived from the Hawker P.1127. It was manafactured by Hawker Siddley. It was used by Spain, Thailand and the United States. There were 278 Aircrafts made and it was formerly started by Sydney Camm and Ralph Hooper. Although this was the first operating vertical takeoff and landing it was still used and a protoype to improve and make it even better.
