the Bristol Bulldog, which had entered service the previous year in May 1929. Powered by the 525-hp Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIS engine on the 25th March 1931, flying from Brooklands and piloted by Hawker

would be part of a force of fighters escorting six Bristol Blenheims of No. 114 Squadron when they attacked an ammunition dump at Foret de Guines, France. The Spitfire Mk III was the next in the lineage

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a new engine was introduced in the form of either Bristol Hercules VI or the radial engine XI and the wing span was extended by a further 5 ft 4 in and on the 29th August 1943 the first production version

a pair of 2,500lb Bristol Siddeley Viper 203 auxiliary turbojets were added to the outboard engines to aid take-offs. As with the MR. Mk 2 further improvements saw the aircraft known as either Phase 1,

to be equipped with the type when it replaced their Bristol Blenheim Mk IVs. They performed their first sortie with the type on the 28th October 1942. The B-26B followed and with 1,883 built would be

Whilst the prototype aircraft was powered by two Bristol Pegasus IIIM engines the production Stranraers would have their power supplied by a pair of 920-hp Pegasus X engines and seventeen examples would

the Hart, whilst the Bristol Blenheim and Fairey Battle were still in development and so issued Specification G.7/34. The design submitted by Hawker was in fact based on the Hart. Known as the Hind

originally having a Napier Sabre powerplant the 2,400-hp Bristol Centaurus VII would be used instead, as the Sabre was needed for the Hawker Typhoon, and this gave birth to the Firebrand Mk TF.III and

fact fly on the 23rd October 1941 with a 2,120-hp Bristol Centaurus CE.4S powerplant and the Hawker Tempest Mk II would have its origins in this aircraft. Back to the top Technical Details Click