This advanced model was responsible for downing more German fighters than any other RAF aircraft during the six-year conflict. It wasn’t the famous Supermarine Spitfire - it was the Hawker ...

Neurosurgeon Peter Kirkpatrick, 57, sits proudly in the cockpit of his newly restored Mk1 Hawker Hurricane. Picture: SWNS Mr Kirkpatrick, a married father-of-one, said: “Restoring this plane ...

The World War Two Mk1 Hawker Hurricane was shot down over Canterbury ... I believe passionately in the history of these aircraft and the role they played in the last world war.

When a pilot suffered an eye injury while flying a Hawker Hurricane Mk. I, Harold Ridley treated ... upside down and let himself fall out of the cockpit, then parachuted safely to the ground.

The Hawker Hurricane was manufactured by Hawker Aircraft Ltd, which is now part of BAE Systems plc – who currently happens to be the lead contractor on Britain’s 6th-generation stealth fighter ...

Just after midday on the morning of the 7th January 1940 a Mk1 (revised) Hawker Hurricane ... Leuchars in Scotland had become airborne. This aircraft had been fitted with special equipment ...

Planes such as the Gloster Gladiator Mk II and Hawker Hurricane MkI will be among those ... base and maintenance facility for battle-weary aircraft. There has been an active airfield at Church ...

In 1940 when the Nazi Germany air force launched its major attack on the United Kingdom, the Hawker Hurricane was there ... with four 20-millimeter Hispano Mk II cannons and either two 250 or ...