Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAeS (5 August 1893 – 12 March 1966) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many Hawker aircraft designs, from...
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circulation. Camm was born in Windsor, England, the second child of twelve. The eldest, Sydney Camm, became a famous aircraft designer. He shared with Sydney an...
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with the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was designed during the 1920s by Sydney Camm and manufactured by Hawker Aircraft. The Hart was a prominent British...
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Even as Hurricane production began in March 1937, Sydney Camm embarked on designing its successor. Camm had contacted the Air Ministry and asked what projects...
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originated from discussions between RAF officials and aircraft designer Sir Sydney Camm about a proposed monoplane derivative of the Hawker Fury biplane in the...
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bombers and fighters for the Royal Air Force, the product of Sydney Camm (later Sir Sydney) and his team. These included the Hawker Hind and the Hawker...
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Liberal politician Sydney Caine (1902–1991), English educator and economist Sydney Camm (1893–1966), English aeronautical engineer Sydney Carline (1888–1929)...
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Camm or CAMM may refer to: Amanda Camm (born 1979), Australian politician David Camm (born 1964), former Indiana State Police acquitted of the murders...
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competition would be held to study aircraft submitted for both specifications. Sydney Camm of Hawker Aircraft designed the Harrier to meet the requirements of Specification...
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World War. The Fury's design process was initiated in September 1942 by Sydney Camm, one of Hawker's foremost aircraft designers, to meet the Royal Air Force's...
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Stanley Hooker of the Bristol Engine Company informed aeronautics engineer Sydney Camm of Hawker Aircraft that Bristol had been working a project that combined...
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Navy's traditional preference for radial engines, Hawker's designer Sydney Camm was convinced by his experience with the landplane Hawker Fury that the...
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harness this means of propulsion. Hawker Aviation's chief designer, Sydney Camm, had proposed the Hawker P.1040 for the RAF, but the demonstrator failed...
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for service with British military customers in mind. In October 1945, Sydney Camm, Hawker's chief designer, being satisfied with the results generated...
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take-off and landing) fighter-bomber aircraft – Hawker P.1127, designed by Sydney Camm The first commercial jet airliner (de Havilland Comet) The first Supersonic...
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structural engineer Terence Patrick O'Sullivan, aircraft design engineer Sir Sydney Camm, Indian Army General Sir Orfeur Cavenagh, and Austin Partner, a victim...
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Hawker Hurricane designer Sydney Camm as a young man, with a "twin-pusher" free flight model, circa 1915 in England, a type flown today in "old-timer"...
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Siddeley during the mid-1950s. It was designed by a team headed by Sir Sydney Camm. The P.1121 was initially funded as a private venture by Hawker Siddeley...
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the earlier Hawker Typhoon, the design team, under the leadership of Sydney Camm, had already planned out a series of design improvements; these improvements...
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produced rail cars, transit vehicles and engines (aircraft and ship). Sydney Camm Roy Chaplin Richard Clarkson Stuart Davies (engineer) John Fozard Bob...
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with poachers, for which there is good evidence. In early 1911 a young Sydney Camm watched Sir Thomas Sopwith land his aircraft on Datchet golf course,...
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(510 kW) Mk4 Kestrel engine, which gave improved speed and rate of climb. Sydney Camm designed a monoplane version of the Fury in 1933. It was not developed...
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Aviation's origins at Brooklands. Well known aviation personalities Sydney Camm, Harry Hawker and Tommy Sopwith were responsible for much of Kingston's...
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order. The P.V.3, design of which was led by Hawker's Chief Designer Sidney Camm, was an enlarged development of Hawker's Fury fighter, powered by the preferred...
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aircraft. During his early career he worked under the guidance of Sir Sydney Camm of Hawker Aircraft, designer of the Hurricane Fighter and the Harrier...
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origin United Kingdom Manufacturer Hawker Aircraft Limited Designer Sydney Camm Primary users Royal Air Force Iran New Zealand South Africa Number built...
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would be capable of supersonic speeds. HSA's chief aircraft designer Sir Sydney Camm decided that the company should investigate the prospects of developing...
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swaged and bolted duralumin tube structure, which had been developed by Sydney Camm and Fred Sigrist in 1925. The new design featured automobile-like side-opening...
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London: Crescent, 1998. ISBN 0-517-67964-7. Fozard, John W (editor).Sydney Camm and the Hurricane: Perspectives on the Master Fighter Designer and his...
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