The Hawker Tornado was a British single-seat fighter aircraft design of the Second World War for the Royal Air Force as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane...
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power the Hawker Tornado interceptor but with the cancellation of Vulture development, Hawker abandoned the Tornado and concentrated on the Hawker Typhoon...
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B11/41 Hawker P.1007 Hawker P.1008 Hawker P.1014 Hawker P.1017 Hawker P.1021 Hawker P.1025 Hawker P.1027 Hawker P.1028 Hawker P.1029 Hawker P.1030 Hawker P...
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The Hawker Tempest is a British fighter aircraft that was primarily used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Second World War. The Tempest, originally...
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Sabre engined fighters to F.9/37 was placed with Hawker on 10 July 1939. The official names 'Tornado' and 'Typhoon' were issued in August and December...
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The Hawker Sea Fury is a British fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by Hawker Aircraft. It was the last propeller-driven fighter to serve with...
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United States Airfer Tornado, a Spanish paramotor design Beardmore Tornado, a diesel airship engine fitted to the R101 Hawker Tornado, an unsuccessful World...
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a way of air-dropping vehicles Hawker Hotspur (RAF) turret fighter Hawker Fury (monoplane) (RAF) fighter Hawker Tornado (RAF) fighter Lockheed Lightning...
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engines) Hawker Fury & Sea Fury Hawker Tempest Hawker Tornado Short Shetland Vickers Warwick The Royal Navy Historic Flight operated a Hawker Sea Fury...
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taking place on 30 June 1939. The engine was considered for use in the Hawker Tornado and K9370 was later shipped to Wright Field in the US, where testing...
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flight of the prototype from Brooklands almost nine years earlier. The Hawker Tornado (1940), Typhoon (1940), Tempest (1942), Fury (1944), Sea Fury (1945)...
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A Hawker Tornado prototype fighter of WWII, with the RAF roundel colors of chrome yellow in the outermost ring, and the red centre giving false dark gray...
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proved unreliable in service and the planned fighter using it – the Hawker Tornado – was cancelled as a result. With the Merlin itself soon pushing into...
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This WW II British Hawker Tornado prototype's 'Type A.1' RAF roundel's outermost, chrome yellow ring renders as dark gray, due to orthochromasia....
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comparable role, configuration, and era Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Dewoitine D.520 Hawker Tornado Heinkel He 100 Kawasaki Ki-61 Macchi C.202 Messerschmitt Bf 109 Mikoyan-Gurevich...
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Flight (May - June 1944) Fleet Air Arm 778 Naval Air Squadron Hawker Typhoon Hawker Tornado Hawker Tempest Article XV Squadrons - the RNZAF proper did not use...
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Westland Whirlwind and the Gloster F.9/37. The Vulture was fitted to the Hawker Tornado and Avro Manchester, but proved unreliable in service. With the Merlin...
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Hawker Siddeley Harrier, Hawker Siddeley Hawk, Hawker Siddeley Nimrod McDonnell Douglas Phantom, SEPECAT Jaguar Panavia Tornado and Panavia Tornado ADV...
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Retired 542 Hawker Tempest UK 1942 Retired 1,702 Hawker Tornado UK 1939 Prototype 4 Hawker Typhoon UK Fighter-bomber 1940 Retired 3,317 Hawker Woodcock/Danecock/Dankok...
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British Aircraft Corporation (section Tornado)
Tornado GR1s and 152 Tornado F3s to the RAF. For most of its history, BAC was the subject of rumour and speculation that it was to merge with Hawker Siddeley...
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Blackburn Buccaneer (redirect from Hawker-Siddeley Buccaneer)
Brough, it was later officially known as the Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer when Blackburn became a part of the Hawker Siddeley Group, but this name is rarely used...
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the 325 had a pusher engine. Two designs from Hawker which led to the Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tornado were selected. The Type 327 was considered for...
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Hawker Henley as turret fighter Hawker Tornado United Kingdom 1939 4 Rolls-Royce Vulture powered equivalent of Hawker Typhoon Heinkel He 280 Germany 1940...
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No. 15 Squadron RAF (redirect from Tornado Weapons Conversion Unit RAF)
the Panavia Tornado GR4 from RAF Lossiemouth as No. XV (Reserve) Squadron. It was the RAF's Operational Conversion Unit for the Tornado GR4 which taught...
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nationalisation and merger of the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation. On 29 April 1977,...
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Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms and Tornado F3s, Italian Aeronautica Militare and Royal Saudi Air Force Tornados and Swedish Flygvapnet Saab Viggens....
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machine gun armament. Hawker Aircraft submitted a single seat, single engine design with two possible engines, the Hawker Tornado powered by the Rolls-Royce...
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13 to 16, 2012, a major tornado outbreak occurred across a large portion of the Great Plains. The storms resulted in six tornado-related fatalities, all...
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No. 17 Squadron RAF (section Tornados to Typhoons)
1941) Hawker Hurricane Mk.I (Apr 1941–Aug 1941) Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIb (July 1941–Nov 1941) Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIa (Jan 1942–June 1942) Hawker Hurricane...
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Gannet Folland Gnat Gloster Meteor Hawker Hunter Hawker Tempest Handley Page Victor Hawker Siddeley Harrier Hawker Siddeley Nimrod Hunting Jet Provost...
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