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Canterbury Road has a new factory called the Sopwith Aviation Factory
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The Sopwith Pup was invented by Herbert Smith.
-It was the first British single seated fighter aircraft which decreaseed weight.
-It had a top speed of 111mp/h which compared to other planes was quite high.
-It was armed with a single Vickers machine gun sycronised with the propeller. -
Tommy Sopwith developed invention the Camel.
-Had 4 bombs along with two twin Vickers machine guns as part of its armoury.
-It was made of aluminium which was a very light metal and was very good for manouverability, -
In 1920 Tommy Sopwith joined with his test pilot Harry Hawker to create the Hawker aviation company which later went on to produce some of the most famous british aircrafts.
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The Hawker fury was the predecessor to the Hurricane and was built by Sydney Camm.
-The Hawker Fury broke the world record and was the first plane to reach over 200 mph.
-It had four vicker machine guns which was much higher than the other plane of the time as many of the other planes had only tow machine guns -
The Hawker Hurricane was invented by Sydney Camm.
-It served in all major battles of WW2 and accounted forf 60% of all the RAF air victories in WW2
-It broke the world record with a top speed of 423mph
-It had four vicker machine guns which was much higher than the other plane of the time as many of the other planes had only tow machine guns -
The Hawker Typhoon was invented, like many other planes ,by Sydney Camm
-The Hawker Typhoon also broke the world record with 652mph
-The typhoon was armed with four vickers machine guns
- It could also be armed with four RP-3 rockets under each wing. -
The Hawker Hunter was invented by Hawker Siddely.
- Broke the world speed record reaching 727 mph
-Was used by all major Air Forces across the globe
-Had four 30 mm ADEN cannon, with 150 rounds of ammunition per gun. -
The Hawker Harrier was invented by Sydney Camm.
-The Harrier took off vertically using rotating nosels, which directed the flow of air down instead of behind, thrusting the plane up not sideways.
-It was armed with one Vickers machine gun and one Lewis gun carrying a maximum of 1,000 lb of bombs
-The top speed of the Hawker Harrier was considerably high with 1,175 mph. -
One of Kingston's prides closes with the richmond factory of Bae systems, Hawker siddley, Hawker and Sopwith finally shut down to end an era of great British aviation
