Aeroplane Monthly 1984-07
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A.Lumsden, T.Heffernan - Probe Probare (5)
Harts built for the Royal Swedish Air Force were powered by the 580 h.p. Bristol Pegasus IM2 radial engine.
Originally an Audax, K1996 was converted to a Hart Trainer and ended its days with the RAE before becoming an instructional airframe.
The very first Hawker Hart, J9052, being thrown around Brooklands by Hawker s test pilot P. W. S. Bulman for the benefit of Flight’s photographer. It was first flown in June 1928.
The very first Hawker Hart, J9052, being thrown around Brooklands by Hawker s test pilot P. W. S. Bulman for the benefit of Flight’s photographer. It was first flown in June 1928.
The Hind two-seat bomber and general purpose machine was powered by the 640 h.p. Rolls-Royce Kestrel V, had a cutaway rear gunner's cockpit and sported a tailwheel.
A last look at Shuttleworth's Hawker Hind in its Afghan colours. Its debut in its new 15 Sqn RAF scheme will be at Mildenhall on June 9-10, 1984.
No. 13 (A.C.) Squadron, at Odiham, is the first unit to be issued with Hawker Hectors, which mount the 24-cylinder Napier Dagger III air-cooled engine. On the photo, Sqn. Ldr. S. H. C. Gray is posing his machine for our photographer.
With the arrival of the Hector the classic Kestrel engine was replaced by the Napier Dagger. Gone too was the swept-back top wing; a straight wing counteracted the change in position of the c.g.
The fighter variant of the Hart, re-named Demon in July 1932. From October 1936 Boulton Paul-built Demons featured a Frazer-Nash hydraulic turret.
The deck-landing variant of the Hart was the Hawker Osprey two-seat carrier-borne seaplane fighter. It was available both as a landplane and a floatplane and had folding wings.
The Hawker P.V.4 dive bomber was the largest of the Hart family. Though it behaved faultlessly, the competition for the Spec. G.4/31 was won by the Vickers Wellesley.