Jetrader - March/April 2009 - (Page 27) aviation history Sidney’s Planes and the Battle of Britain Shown here, the Hawker Hornet, which was the prototype for the Fury. B By Bill Bath ritish Air Ministry specification F.36/34 was issued for a replacement of the Bristol Bulldog biplane fighter. The design would be powered by a new Rolls-Royce engine, the PV-12, later to be named Merlin. Sidney Camm was the chief designer at the Hawker Engineering Company, based at Kingston-uponThames, west of London. Camm was born in 1893, and after serving an apprenticeship as a woodworker and building a man-carrying glider when he was 19, he joined the Martinsdale Aeroplane Company where he obtained aircraft design experience working there throughout WWI. In 1922 he joined Hawker and was soon promoted from senior draftsman to chief designer. His most successful design of those early years was the Hornet light bomber, which, being faster than the Bulldog, was used to develop the Hawker Fury. The Hornet was then renamed the Hart. Jetr Jetrader 27 etrader 27
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