The baker offered to send it to his home but Hawker said “ No I am going to take it to a starving family nearby, a man and his eight children.

“ The Hawker Hunter ”.

They destroy a mixture of Cuban Air Force aircraft – a C-47 Skytrain, a PBY Catalina, five B-26 Invaders, a Hawker Sea Fury, a T-33 Shooting Star, and two P-47 Thunderbolts, among others – and a number of civilian aircraft, including a Douglas DC-3.

Fishermans Bend is a primarily industrial centre at the foot of the West Gate Bridge and contains major establishments for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Holden Australia, Hawker de Havilland, GKN Aerospace Engineering Services, the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, Kraft Foods, Toyota Australia, port security and a campus of RMIT University.

Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel: ( in storage ) Hawker Siddeley P. 1127 Serial Number: XS690, Registration: 64-18264, Markings: Tri-Partite Evaluation Squadron, RAF West Raynham, 1965

In 1964 a tripartite squadron, comprising members of the British, United States and German armed forces, was formed at West Raynham to evaluate the Hawker P1127 Vertical Take-Off and Landing ( VTOL ) strike fighter aircraft.

Between 28 – 31 March 1967 Hawker Hunters from West Raynham were involved in Operation Mop Up.

Deutsche-Luftfahrt Beratungsdienst of West Germany and Svensk Flygtjänst AB of Sweden were two notable companies in the field in the post-war years, operating such types as the Hawker Sea Fury, Fairey Firefly and Douglas Skyraider.

It re-equipped with the Hawker Tempest in December, returning to action from Gilze-Rijen in February 1945, flying fighter sweeps in North West Europe.

Some smaller designs have been used as the basis for specialist fighters, such as night fighters, and a number of fighters, such as the Hawker Hurricane were used as ground attack aircraft bombers, replacing earlier conventional light bombers that proved unable to defend themselves and carry a reasonable bombload.

* 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.

The supersonic Hawker Siddeley P. 1154 which competed with the Mirage IIIV for NATO use was cancelled even as the aircraft were being built.

This called for the nationalisation and merger of the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation.

Hawker Pacific Aerospace ( short „ HPA “) is a MRO-Service ( Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul ) company which offers landing gear and hydraulic MRO services for all major aircraft types.

Hawker Pacific Aerospace's history began in 1912 with Harry Hawker asking Thomas Sopwith for flying lessons .</ br > Within a few years Hawker became Sopwith's top test pilot.

In 1934, Hawker Siddeley was given the contract to build an aircraft for </ br > the Royal Airforce ( RAF ). Hawker Siddeley went on to produce many other aircraft for the war effort.

Hawker was </ br > added to Lufthansa Technik's Landing Gear Division to form a global network for Landing Gear MRO services .</ br > In January 2011, Hawker Pacific Aerospace UK was sold to Lufthansa Technik and renamed into Lufthansa Technik </ br > Landing Gear Services UK.

Commonly known as Avro Canada, it was actually a subsidiary of the Hawker Siddeley Group and used the Avro name for trading purposes.

Mythological names, particularly with an association with water were common, such as Blackburn Iris-named for the goddess of sea and sky, and Nimrod the mighty hunter, used for the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod and Hawker Nimrod.

It was later divested by Hawker Siddeley Canada and merged with de Havilland Canada ’ s Special Products division to form SPAR Aerospace Ltd. ( Special Products and Applied Research ), developer of the Canadarm remote manipulator system for the Space Shuttle.

In 1992, Hawker Siddeley Group Plc was acquired by BTR plc for £ 1. 5bn.

However, the city remains a major manufacturing center for the aircraft industry today, with Hawker Beechcraft, Bombardier, Cessna, and even Airbus all having major manufacturing centers in town.

Orders for new aircraft plummeted, prompting Wichita's five largest aircraft manufacturers — Boeing Co., Cessna Aircraft Co., Bombardier Learjet Inc., Hawker Beechcraft and Raytheon Aircraft Co .— to slash a combined 15, 000 jobs between 2001 and 2004.

As Mark leaves, General Hawker says to him, " Thanks for the 95 seconds.

The attack commenced around 7. 30 a. m. Canon Ivan Corea was preaching at the time, when according to the parishioners of St. Luke's, the RAF Hawker Hurricanes swooped over the church to engage the Japanese Zero fighters in dogfights above the skies of Borella.

A 2006 ruling made by Hawker after an incident during a heated exchange in the House brought further motions of dissent from the Opposition, and drew criticism of the Speaker's impartiality from the media.

During the 19th century Tintagel was visited by many notable writers, including Robert Stephen Hawker, Charles Dickens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Thomas Hardy.

Hawker was born in the vicarage of Charles Church, Plymouth, on 3 December 1803, He was the eldest of nine children and grandson of Robert Hawker, vicar of Charles Church.

Plaque to Hawker in the ruined Charles Church, Plymouth — he was born in the vicarage of this church

With its tiny population of about 7 million, Australia ranked sixth in the world for scheduled air mileage, had 16 airlines, was growing at twice the world average, and had produced a number of prominent aviation pioneers, including Lawrence Hargrave, Harry Hawker, Lawrence Wackett, the Reverend John Flynn, Sidney Cotton, Keith Virtue and Charles Kingsford Smith.

* Pierre Clostermann's Hawker Tempest Le Grand Charles featured the Cross of Lorraine.

Portrait of Dr Robert Hawker, the most famous Vicar of the Charles Church

Robert Hawker ( 1753 – 1827 ) was a Devonian vicar of the Anglican Church and the most prominent of the vicars of Charles Church, Plymouth, Devon.

Hawker went in for medicine and studied in Plymouth under Samuel White of Bretonside ( a stone's throw from Charles Church ).

Robert Hawker, D. D., late Vicar of Charles, Plymouth.

Among the dead is the Australian politician Charles Hawker.

He is a cousin of Charles Hawker, who was a member of the House of Representatives from South Australia from 1929 to 1938.

His great-grandfather, George Charles Hawker, was Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1860 to 1865.

He was the Australian Chevening Scholar in 1994, the Charles Hawker Memorial Scholar in 1996 and was a 2004 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government ’ s Executive Leaders ’ Program at Harvard.

* Charles Hawker ( 1894 – 1938 ), Member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1929-1938

* George Charles Hawker ( 1818 – 1895 ), South Australian politician and pastoralist

* Hon Charles Hawker, MP: Minister for Markets ( to 13 April 1932 ), Minister for Commerce ( 13 April 1932 to 23 September 1932 ), Minister for Repatriation ( to 12 April 1932 )

The suburb of Hawker is named after Charles Hawker ( 1894 – 1938 ), Member of the House of Representatives from 1929 – 1938 and Federal minister in 1932.

It was named for Charles Hawker, who was a federal MP 1929-38.

* 25 October – Charles Hawker ( born 1884 ), politician