At the same time, the RAFM selected an aircraft to send to the Smithsonian in place of the Typhoon. This would be Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc, RAF serial LF686/5720M, which is today displayed at the ...

As the premier fighter of the RAF, tacticians assigned the pilots to engage with German fighters at high altitudes while the less capable Hawker Hurricane ... with the Mk 24 being the final ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

0:54 Hawker Hurricane replica unveiled at aviation museum in Shearwater, N.S. The Hawker Hurricane was used in the Second World War to defend Canada’s Atlantic sea approaches. The replica will ...