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Hawker and Tornado
Current examples: F-15E Strike Eagle, F / A-18 Hornet, Sukhoi Su-34 ' Fullback ', Chengdu J-10, Xian JH-7, Dassault-Breguet Mirage 2000, and the Panavia Tornado ; historical examples: Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik, Heinkel He 111, Dornier Do 17, Dornier Do 215, Junkers Ju 88, Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, P-47 Thunderbolt, Hawker Typhoon, and F-4 Phantom II.
The radar was flight tested on a Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer and first flew in a Tornado F. 2 in June 1981.
* Hawker Tornado, a World War II, single – seat British fighter aircraft
It was also used by Hawker Aircraft for development work on its Tornado design.
The ADEN entered service on the Hawker Hunter in 1954, and subsequently used on every British gun-armed aircraft until the advent of the Panavia Tornado in the 1980s.
More recent notable aircraft include a Hawker Siddeley Harrier which served during the Falklands War with No. 1 Squadron RAF, and a Panavia Tornado, which flew the highest number of bomber sorties of any Tornado in the 1991 Gulf War.

Hawker and 1940
The earlier Hawker Hurricane and the Spitfire were the mainstay of RAF Fighter Command fighter aircraft which fought off the Luftwaffe bombing raids with fighter escorts during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940.
On 21 September 1940, Lt John MacMillan Stevenson Patton of the Royal Canadian Engineers risked his life when he and five others manhandled an unexploded German bomb away from the Hawker aircraft factory at Brooklands and rolled it into an existing bomb crater where it later exploded harmlessly-his bravery was subsequently recognised by the award of the George Cross.
" Nevertheless, on 31 October 1940, the Falchi scored their first confirmed air victories in North Africa against the Hawker fighters.
The RAF demonstrated the importance of speed and maneuverability in the Battle of Britain ( 1940 ), when its fast Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane fighters easily riddled the clumsy Stukas as they were pulling out of dives.
On the third day of the offensive, 12 May 1940, west of Liege, Belgium, at a height of about, flying a Messerschmitt Bf 109, Galland with Gustav Rödel as his wingman claimed his first aerial victories, over two Royal Air Force Hawker Hurricanes.
When the invasion did come on 10 May 1940, the Germans were not only in possession of more aircraft and weapons than the western Allies ( among them were approximately 400 aircraft from the RAF, including Hawker Hurricane fighters and outclassed Fairey Battle bombers ), but many of them were veterans of the war in Spain and so had brought their comrades up to speed as to how to conduct the air element of the war by " preparing the ground " for the Panzer divisions of the German Army.
It was on the fortress-island at the centre of the Mediterranean in June 1940 that the SM. 79s started to lose their reputation of invulnerability, when Gloster Gladiators and Hawker Hurricanes were encountered.
* 62s Hawker Hurricane ( 1940 )
Hans-Joachim was killed in action on 11 July 1940, when his Bf 110 was shot down by Hawker Hurricanes of No. 78 Squadron RAF.
It includes a flypast of 300 British aircraft over the city that stretches for 60 miles ( 97 km ), led by a Hawker Hurricane that had fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
On 29 March 1940, a day after being recalled to the England squad to play Wales, Pilot Officer Obolensky was killed during training when his Hawker Hurricane Mark 1 crashed on Martlesham Heath, Suffolk.
After downing a Hawker Hurricane on 20 May 1940, on 22 May he claimed two Breguet 690 bombers and a Potez 63 near Cambrai.
Hawker MK. II Hurricane: Hawker Hurricane Markings: Royal Air Force, 257 Squadron, 1940.
41 Squadron was formed at AFS Waterkloof on 16 October 1940 as an army co-operation squadron equipped with the Hawker Hartbees aircraft, serving in East Africa.
In October 1939, the squadron became a flying training school, operating de Havilland Tiger Moth and Hawker Hart biplanes as well as Wapitis, but was re-equipped with Bristol Blenheim bombers by the end of 1940.
During World War II, RAF Gloster Gladiators ( No. 263 Squadron RAF ) and Hawker Hurricanes ( No. 46 Squadron RAF ) operating from Bardufoss played a vital part in keeping the Luftwaffe at bay during the fighting on the Narvik front in the April-June 1940 Norwegian Campaign.
The AASF then consisted of 8 squadrons of Battles, 2 squadrons with Bristol Blenheim medium ( by the standards of 1940 ) bombers, and 2 squadrons of Hawker Hurricane fighters, to be reinforced by a further squadron of Hurricanes in response to any major military action.
The unit made a significant contribution to the defense of Finnish Lapland, from January 7, 1940, with 12 Gloster Gladiator II fighters, five Hawker Hart bombers, and eight other planes, amounting to a third of the Swedish Air Force of that time.
After advanced training at an RAF OTU he was assigned to the newly formed Polish No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron, based at RAF Northolt flying Hawker Hurricanes and entering service in the Battle of Britain on 31 August 1940.
On 15 September 1940, Sergeant Holmes was flying a Hawker Hurricane fighter when he spotted a damaged Dornier Do17 bomber of KG 76 apparently making a bombing attempt on central London.

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Lufthansa Technik ( short LHT ), a subsidiary of Lufthansa German Airlines, acquired Hawker Pacific in 2002.
The British system used fairly large solid fuel rockets to shoot planes ( typically the Hawker Hurricane ) off a small ramp fitted to the fronts of merchant ships, known in service as Catapult armed merchantmen ( or CAM Ships ), in order to provide some cover against German reconnaissance planes.
Howe, as Minister of Reconstruction and Minister of Munitions and Supply ( later Reconstruction and Supply ), brokered the deal with the Hawker Siddeley Group to take over the Victory Aircraft plant in 1945 with Frederick T. Smye hired by HSG's Roy Dobson as its first employee.
Avro Aircraft ( Canada ), their first ( and, at the time, only ) division, turned to the repair and servicing of a number of Second World War-era aircraft, including Hawker Sea Fury fighters, North American B-25 Mitchell and Avro Lancaster bombers.
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.
ESRO organised the development of early satellites such as ESRO 2B ( Iris ), built by Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Engins Matra.
* Sir Thomas Sopwith, ( 1888 – 1989 ), aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the Sopwith Aviation, H G Hawker Engineering, Hawker Aircraft and Hawker Siddeley aircraft companies, lived at Compton House, Cobham in the 1920s.
The Cuban air force armed inventory included Douglas B-26 Invader light bombers, Hawker Sea Fury fighters, and Lockheed T-33 jets, all remaining from the Fuerza Aérea del Ejército de Cuba ( FAEC ), the Cuban air force of the Batista government.
British Aerospace was formed on 29 April 1977 by the nationalisation and merger of The British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ), the Hawker Siddeley Group and Scottish Aviation.
He took part in the design of many Hawker aircraft, including the Tomtit, Cygnet ( his first Hawker plane ), Hornbill, Nimrod, Hart and Fury.
Working with Camm at Hawker were Sir Frederick Page ( later to design the English Electric Lightning ), Leslie Appleton ( later to design the advanced Fairey Delta 2 and Britain's first air-to-air missile, the Fairey Fireflash ), Stuart Davies ( joined Avro in 1936 and later to be chief designer of the Avro Vulcan ), Roy Chaplin ( became Chief Designer at Hawker in 1957 ) and Sir Robert Lickley ( Chief Project Engineer during the war, and later to be Chief Engineer at Fairey ).

Hawker and Typhoon
The Hawker Typhoon posed a serious threat to German armour and motor vehicles during the Battle of Normandy in 1944.
The main source of controversy surrounding Wittmann's demise comes from the claim that he was killed when an RP-3 rocket from a Royal Air Force Hawker Typhoon struck his tank.
Similar markings had been used when the Hawker Typhoon was first introduced into use as it was otherwise very similar in profile to a German aircraft.
* 7 August 1944, a RAF Hawker Typhoon strafed a squad from ' F ' Company / US 120th Infantry Regiment, near Hill 314, France, killing two men.
Around noon on the same day, RAF Hawker Typhoon of the 2TAF was called in to assist the US 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion in stopping an attack by the 2nd SS Panzer Division between Sourdeval and Mortain but instead fired its rockets at two US 3-inch guns near L ' Abbaye Blanche, killing one man and wounding several others even after the yellow smoke ( which was to identify friendlies ) was put out.
Around the same time, a Hawker Typhoon attacked the Cannon Company of 120th Infantry Regiment, US 30th Division, near Mortain, killing 15 men.
* 9 August 1944, a RAF Hawker Typhoon strafed units of the British Columbia Regiment and the Algonquin Regiment, 4th Canadian Armoured Division, near Quesnay Wood during Operation Totalize, causing several casualties.
The devastation was only partially caused by the battle ; at first light on 14 June RAF Hawker Typhoon s attacked the town hours before this photograph was taken.
At first he was only fit for instructional duties but by 1943 he was in command of 125 Wing with the Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber.
He then moved to designing aeroplanes that would become mainstays of the RAF in the Second World War including the Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest.
Hawker Typhoon
The engineering of the aircraft to travel at higher speeds and handle compressibility effects was one of the challenges of the day, but with his small design team of one hundred members at Hawker, Camm managed to solve these problems and make the Typhoon an effective combat weapon even at these speeds.
The lessons learned on the Hawker Typhoon were incorporated in the follow-up to this design, the Hawker Tempest.
* Hawker Typhoon and Tempest
Aircraft like the Ilyushin Il-2, Hawker Typhoon, and the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt wreaked havoc among the Panzer Divisions.
The RPAF began with 2, 332 personnel, a fleet of 24 Tempest II fighter-bombers, 16 Hawker Typhoon fighters, 2 H. P. 57 Halifax bombers, 2 Auster aircraft, 12 North American Harvard trainers and 10 de Havilland Tiger Moth biplanes.
Notable examples include the Focke-Wulf FW 190, Hawker Typhoon and Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
Hawker and its successors produced many more famous military aircraft, including the inter-war Hart, and Demon ; World War II's Hurricane, Typhoon, and Tempest ; and the post-war Sea Fury, Hunter and Harrier.
During the Second World War, the Works were used to build parts for Lee-Enfield rifles, bomber plane timber frames, Hawker Typhoon wings, Horsa Gliders, and ambulances.
The attack went in during heavy rain which turned the ground to mud and bogged down the Canadian armoured support and kept the Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber support from the RAF from showing up.

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