could be catapulted from ships although in the end Hawker Hurricanes would fulfil this role. With the Fulmar seeing service in all theatres of war it provided the Royal Navy with a reliable long-range

larger numbers and the aircraft's vulnerability to the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire saw the aircraft move to night operations and other roles. One of these roles was as a transport aircraft

Specification P.27/32 for an aircraft to replace the Hawker Hart as a light day bomber. This called for a single engined two seater monoplane able to fly 1,000 miles and have a speed of 200 mph whilst

re-equipped with either the Supermarine Spitfire or Hawker Hurricane. The RAF also took delivery of the Mk II fitted with a 856-hp Bristol Mercury VIIIA which had specifically been fitted with gun synchronisation

met the Royal Air Force's Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane with all three aircraft being evenly matched. The next in the lineage was the Bf 109F 'Friedrick' which featured a re-designed airframe.

Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane along with the Red Arrows to fly in formation with the visiting Lancaster, however bad weather put paid to this happening. Despite the bad weather, after around

21, 464 and 487 Squadron, escorted by fourteen Hawker Typhoons attack Amiens prison in France with the intention of releasing resistance and political prisoners by breaching the prison wall. Whilst the

However they were able to secure the use of a navalised Hawker Hurricane known as the Sea Hurricane. Eventually in October 1941 permission for a Sea Spitfire was granted, with the first prototype flying

although both the North American P-51 Mustang and Hawker Tempest did score victories over the aircraft, although at low speeds it was vulnerable and was not as manoeuvrable as piston engined Allied fighters.

year until the introduction of the Spitfire Mk IX and Hawker Typhoon started to turn the tide back in favour of the RAF. In fact so concerned by the Fw 190 were the RAF that a number of ideas were considered