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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Mk 1 Hawker Hurricane of 245 Squadron took off from ... Messerschmit 109 and the badly injured pilot managed to bring the aircraft down in one piece. For years after the war the aircraft ...

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 ...