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The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–40s which was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. for service with the Royal Air Force (RAF).
Hawker Sea Hurricane Mk.Ib (Z7015) arrives at the 2016 RIAT. The Sea Hurricane Mk IA was a Hurricane Mk I modified by Hawker or General Aircraft Limited. They were modified to be carried by CAM ships (catapult-armed merchantman). These were cargo ships equipped with a catapult for launching a single aircraft, but without facilities to recover them.
The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War. Replaced by newer designs later on during the Second World War, it has not survived as well as its contemporary, the Supermarine Spitfire .
A Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 aircraft (RAF serial V7670) painted in Luftwaffe colours. This aircraft was captured by the Germans in March 1941 and then recaptured at Gambut Airfield in 1942. The Luftwaffe operated some captured Hurricanes for training and education purposes.
Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAeS (5 August 1893 – 12 March 1966) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many Hawker aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters. One particularly notable aircraft he designed was the Hawker Hurricane fighter. [1]
Hawker Hart G-ABMR Hurricane Mk.I Sea Fury. The first Hawker design was the unbuilt Hawker Humpback of December 1920. [2] This was soon followed by the Hawker Duiker, the first prototype, which flew in July 1923. [3]
The aircraft also appeared in the Battle of Britain film in 1968. [1] In 1972 the aircraft was refurbished and presented by Hawker's successor company, Hawker Siddeley, to the Royal Air Force's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight then based at RAF Coltishall, reverting to its RAF serial as identity. [1] [4]
The Flying Legend Hawker Hurricane Replica is an Italian light-sport aircraft, designed and produced by Flying Legend of Caltagirone and introduced at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2011. The aircraft, a 72% scale replica of the British Hawker Hurricane Second World War fighter , was supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ...