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Kingston Aviation Timeline
starting with the sopwith camel and ending in the hawker harrier -
Sopwith camel
most successful allied fighter in WW1 -
Sopwith Dolphin
first four gun fighter plane -
Sopwith snipe
Best fighter in the First World War and RAF standard fighter to 1925 -
Sopwith Atlantic
Harry Hawker attempts the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight -
Hawker Cygnet
Sydney Camm’s highly successful very light aircraft -
Hawker Hart Light Bomber
Easy-to-build steel tube structure, faster than the RAF’s best fighters -
Hawker Fury
First 200mph aircraft in RAF service -
Hawker Hurricane
The RAF’s first 300mph aircraft. The first 8-gun fighter and with a retractable undercarriage Crucial in the Battle of Britain, the most successful allied fighter in World War Two -
Hawker Typhoon
The first 400mph aircraft in RAF service -
Hawker Tempest
Downs more V1 flying bombs than any other type -
Hawker Sea Fury
Amongst the world’s fastest piston-engined aircraft -
Hawker Sea Hawk
Navy buy 420, far more than any other jet aircraft type -
Hawker Hunter
Made a “Super Priority” aircraft for the RAF and NATO – nearly 2000 built -
Hawker Siddeley Harrier
unique vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing aircraft the world’s first operational VTOL aircraft - wins air race between New York and London city centres in 1969
