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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: TwinBoom on May 28, 2007, 09:55:01 AM
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A brief clip of a rare Rolls Royce Kestrel engined Hawker Nimrod filmed at Duxford in May 07
Nimrod (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfIJbVzVr7g)
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The Nimrod/Fury are beautiful aircraft, especially in 30's markings with the colourful squadron markings.
You can really see similarity to the Hurricane.
(http://www.clarkindustries.on.ca/images/props/Nimrod.jpg)(http://homepages.tesco.net/~mrogers/CBFS/HurrinFlight)
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yes very close
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I'm thinking I read somewhere that the original protype for the Hurricane was a biplane. When the specifications called for monoplane then Hawker reworked it
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nope hurri was always a monoplane. hawker produced the first brit monoplane during WWI . It was always designed as a monplaned fighter with 8 guns
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Neat!
I was watching the history channel this weekend and they were discussing the Hurricane designer's VTOL aircraft. He won a huge competition for a Mach 2 VTOL plane, but the UK squashed it with budget cuts after it began..
They did however, allow the development of a smaller, less expensive aircraft. That is of course, the ever-popular Harrier!
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yeah the TSR2 was also dropped during that cut. man how cool that bomber was. Mach 2 , super manoverable , HUGE payload and terrain following radar (acka the Torbado GR.1 ) so low level vally runs are safe :)
In fact the USNAF use a hawker design ; the Gosh hawk is a hawker
(now BAC ) hawk trainner ( light fighter ground support )
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Sir Sidney Camm is possibly the greatest aircraft designer that ever lived. He even had some input on what became the Panavia Tornado.
The Hurricane was originally named the Fury Monoplane in a very early stage of development.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/hawker_mkiic.htm
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Originally posted by B3YT
nope hurri was always a monoplane. hawker produced the first brit monoplane during WWI . It was always designed as a monplaned fighter with 8 guns
That is not true, Hawker were not about then and Britain had produced monoplanes before the first world war. They were deemed inferior to biplanes so were not used. One of the best designs of the first world war was the Bristol M1C which was doing ~130+ mph in 1915/16. Pretty much the fastest thing in the air at that time, but the bias against monoplanes kept it out of service in any significant numbers.
(http://lionels.orpheusweb.co.uk/RFCEgypt/Tanksand/MonoPl.jpeg)
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furball your proberly right but what about barns wallice,he was also a great aircraft designer and did a lot of other great designs for other things.
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hmm i thought that hawker was a subsitutary of bristol during WWI . But i'm probly wrong
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Originally posted by rogerdee
furball your proberly right but what about barns wallice,he was also a great aircraft designer and did a lot of other great designs for other things.
He wasnt really an aircraft designer on the scale of Camm. He was more of a genius who came up with solutions to existing problems (geodetic structure on the Wellington for strength, Tallboy bomb to finally sink the Tirpitz, Bouncing bomb to defeat the dams).
Originally posted by B3YT
hmm i thought that hawker was a subsitutary of bristol during WWI . But i'm probly wrong
IIRC Hawker was formed from Sopwith, then later became Hawker Siddely, then British Aerospace.
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Originally posted by Furball
Sir Sidney Camm is possibly the greatest aircraft designer that ever lived.
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everybody know Kurt Tank is the greatest designer of all time.
he even designed Chuck Norris. :)
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It would also have been nice to see what Mitchell would have come up with, had he lived....
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Originally posted by KG45
everybody know Kurt Tank is the greatest designer of all time.
he even designed Chuck Norris. :)
Oh, PLEASE! Go check your references. Kelly Johnson designed Chuck Norris.
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