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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...