Авиация и Время 1999-03 / А.Котлобовский - За полвека до "Бури в пустыне" /Аэроархив/

Hawker Audax 4-й авиашколы ВВС Великобритании, а/б Хаббания, май 1941г.

Авиация и Время 1999-03 / А.Котлобовский - За полвека до "Бури в пустыне" /Аэроархив/

Hawker Nisr из 1-й АЭ ВВС Ирака, а/б Мосул, май 1941г.

Мировая Авиация 152

В Ираке самолеты Audax получили местное обозначение Nisr. 34 машины были поставлены с двигателями Bristol Pegasus.

Air Enthusiast 2001-11 / K.Wixey - Hart Of The Matter (1)

It took just over a week to convert Hart K1438 into the prototype Audax in May 1931.

Air Enthusiast 2001-11 / K.Wixey - Hart Of The Matter (1)

First production Hawker Audax I K1995 at Brooklands, from where it made its first flight on December 29, 1931.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-11 / Personal album. Military

Two Hawker Audax two-seat army co-operation biplanes of 4 Squadron. The nearer aircraft, K2001, served with Nos 4, 13 and 211 Sqns and then passed to Nos 15 ERFTS, 3 FTS and 1 FTS, finally being struck off RAF charge in September 1941.

Air Enthusiast 2001-11 / K.Wixey - Hart Of The Matter (1)

P W S 'George' Bulman in Audax K2012, one of a batch of 40 delivered between December 1931 and June 1932. Note the message hook deployed.

Мировая Авиация 202

Audax - взаимодействие с Армией. В 1931 году британские ВВС сформулировали требования к преемнику Armstrong-Whitworth Atlas, самолету для взаимодействия с сухопутными войсками. Поскольку Hart уже показал свои возможности, то его решили использовать в новом качестве, и заказали 40 самолетов. От стандартных Hart они отличались удлиненными выхлопными патрубками, улучшившими летчику обзор вниз. На шасси установили поднимаемый крюк (на фотографии) для приема корреспонденции с земли без посадки. В 1932 году новым вариантом вооружили эскадрилью IV(AC). Следующие заказы (построено более 400 самолетов) разместили на заводах компаний "A.V. Roe", "Bristol", "Gloster", "Westland" и самой "Hawker". Самолеты эксплуатировались в метрополии, Индии, на Ближнем Востоке, экспортировались в Персию (с моторами P&W Hornet) и Ирак. В ходе укрупнения состава британских ВВС в середине 1930-х годов часть Audax передали в авиационные училища. На вооружении некоторых заморских частей первой линии Audax оставались до 1941 года.

Flight 1932-06 / Flight

Hawker "Audax" (Rolls-Royce "Kestrel" IB)

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-12 / J.Read - Fledgling (2)

The 'Art with the 'ook, the Jack-of-all-trades and mainstay of the Army Co-operation units during the mid-Thirties. The Audax could be distinguished externally from the Hart by its message-collecting hook and long exhausts.
Flt Lt “George” Bulman flying Hawker Audax K2012 from Brooklands in June 1932.

Flight 1935-02 / Flight Advertisements

HAWKER AUDAX : Army co-operation (Kestrel X engine - 550 h.p. at 3,000ft.); span, 37ft. 3in.; gross weight, 4,381 lb.; max. speed, 170 m.p.h. at 3,280ft. A machine possessing all the qualities required for Army Co-operation work, accurate manoeuvrability through the whole speed range, a good climb and a high top speed.

Flight 1935-12 / Flight

The Hawker Audax (Kestrel IB or X) is intended for army co-operation.

Flight 1933-09 / Flight Advertisements

Hawker Audax fitted with Rolls-Royce'Kestrel" Engine

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1992-01

Hawker Audaxes of No.13 Squadron.

Air Enthusiast 2007-07 / A.Thomas - Fledgling Eagles /Air forces/

The first four Audax to arrive at Cranborne for the SRAU initially retained their RAF serials and all were fitted with underwing panniers

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-03 / H.Levy - Middle East exiles

Hawker Audax K3124 at El Kabrit, Egypt, early in 1943.

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-03 / H.Levy - Middle East exiles

Hawker Audax K3124 at El Kabrit, Egypt, early in 1943. The Audax was an army co-operation variant of the Hart, but by the time this picture was taken the type was relegated to "general dogsbody" duties.

Flight 1934-11 / Flight

A LINE-UP: Hawker "Audax" machines (Rolls Royce ''Kestrel" engines) of the School of Army Co-operation.

Flight 1935-03 / Flight Advertisements

Aiding the Infantry: An "Audax" picking up a message. In field conditions the two posts between which the message cord is extended might be replaced by rifles with fixed bayonets driven into the ground.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Lamb - Return to Papplewick

Hawker Audax K3698 was the actual aircraft in which the author's friend Plt Off Ronnie Morgan Elms, was killed at Old Sarum on May 29, 1937. This photograph was taken in September 1934, when the aircraft was with No 16 Squadron, Old Sarum.

Flight 1935-06 / Flight

A standard type, which equips the majority of army co-operation squadrons, is the "Kestrel"-engined "Audax".

Flight 1935-01 / Flight

Группа Audax из 16-й эскадрильи взаимодействия с армией Королевских ВВС. Самолеты этого типа несли службу как в самой Британии, так и на Ближнем Востоке и в Африке.
THE ARMY'S OPTIC NERVE: A flight of three Hawker "Audax" machines (Rolls-Royce "Kestrel"), of No. 16 (Army Co-operation) Squadron, which is stationed at Old Sarum.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-11 / J.Read - Fledgling (1)

Three Hawker Audaxes of 16 Sqn up from Old Sarum in September 1934.

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-09 / T.Dudgeon - The Habbaniya campaign (1)

A formation of three Hawker Audax Is of No 16 Sqn from Old Sarum photographed during September, 1934. Aircraft from this same production batch were on the strength of No 4 FTS.
Audax K3701, K3698 and K3692 wearing the black fuselage band of No 16 Squadron, Old Sarum. The Audax had a Hart-type rear cockpit, extra-long exhaust pipes and, being an Army Co-op. type, an underfuselage hook for picking up messages

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1986-04

Audaxes of No.9 FTS

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1980-02 / E&RFTS

Hawker Audax I K3712 of No.18 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School, Fair Oaks

Air Enthusiast 2001-11 / K.Wixey - Hart Of The Matter (1)

Standing on Gloster's Hucclecote airfield, the first of 25 Audax Indias, K4838.

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-05 / Personal album

Three RAF aircraft at Lahore in 1938. On the right is Airspeed Envoy N9107 of the Delhi Communication Flight. In the centre is Hawker Audax K4862, which flew with Nos 20 and 39 Sqns before diving into the ground at Risalpur in May 1939. At left is Envoy N9018, also of the Delhi Communications Flight and previously G-AFJE. This aircraft crashed at Mingaladon in Rangoon in February 1942.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Airspeed Envoy / AS.6 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-05 / N.Hearn-Phillips - Pilot's progress

The Hawker Audax differed from the Hart mainly by way of the rear cockpit, which was fitted out for an observer/gunner. Each exercise on the advanced course was carried out by a pair of pilots acting alternately as pilot and observer.

Flight 1939-02 / Flight

S.S.V.A.F. Audaxes at Mergui aerodrome, Burma. The natives squatting in the foreground are Burmese priests.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-07 / J.Meadows - Flying for fun (2)

Hawker Audax K5150 of the Royal Air Force College. It first flew with 10 FTS and was struck off RAF charge in July 1940.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1989-02 / Picture page

At first glance, the photograph appears to be of a fighter unit but despite the colours, the aircraft are Audax army co-operation aircraft transferred to No.4 Flying Training School at Abu Sueir. The individual letter is carried below the rear cockpit.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-03 / D.Edwards - Flights and frights in the thirties (1)

Audax I K5562 spent its career in India, serving with 28 Sqn RAF at Ambala and Kohat before going to No 2 Sqn Indian Air Force probably in September 1941. It finished up with No 1 Armament Training Unit, and was struck off charge in 1944. It is seen here with its nose tucked into what appears to be a small engine- or equipment-bay.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-11 / J.Read - Fledgling (1)

The author stands by Hawker Audax K7314 at RAF Tern Hill. This aircraft first flew with the Station Flight before duties with 8 FTS. K7314 was eventually sold to the South African Air Force on October 22, 1940. Audaxes in use as advanced trainers were fitted with de-rated Rolls-Royce Kestrel X engines.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-03 / D.Edwards - Flights and frights in the thirties (1)

Pupils and instructors preparing for a training exercise in Hawker Audaxes at RAF South Cerney in May 1938.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-12 / J.Read - Fledgling (2)

Hawker Hart (Audax ???) instructors and pupils at 3 FTS, South Cerney, April 1938.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-04 / D.Edwards - Flights and frights in the thirties (2)

Hawker Audax I K7362 of 6 FTS dropping its 25lb practice bombs during an exercise. In November 1940 this aircraft became No 1843 in the South African Air Force.

Air Enthusiast 2001-11 / K.Wixey - Hart Of The Matter (1)

Avro-built Audax I K7424 serving with 1 Service Flying Training School, Netheravon, November 1941.

Aviation Historian 2 / J.Wood - The Lion and its Claws

Leading Aircraftman Rogers (furthest right) and his groundcrew colleagues stand beside Hawker Audax I K7429, probably some time before he joined No 263 Sqn, which re-formed at Filton on October 2, 1939, as a fighter squadron equipped with Gloster Gladiators.

Aeroplane Monthly 2000-02 / J.Golley - A Clandestine Assignment /Secret ferry flights/

As well as Lodestars, Stuart Hall and his fellow officers ferried Douglas DC-2s across the Atlantic. Here DC-2 DG469 of 31 Sqn is seen at Beersheba, Hebron, Israel. Aircraft in the background include (on the left) Hawker Audax K7514.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2 / C-32 / C-39 - СШАUSA - 1933

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-03 / G.Levett - From Penguin into Eagle (2)

Swinging the compass of a Hawker Audax at Cranwell in 1937.

Aeroplane Monthly 2000-12 / P.Preston, W.Burrows - Personal album /Readers' photographs/

A detail of an underwing bomb on Audax K7523. The aircraft collided fatally with Audax K7517 near Baghdad on September 12, 1940.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-07 / P.Lamboit - Eyes in the sky (2)

Loading cameras and equipment into an RAF Hawker Audax at the School of Photography at Farnborough in the late Thirties.

Flight 1934-11 / Flight

PHOTOGRAPHY: An airman is handing up a camera to be fitted inside an "Audax"

Flight 1936-07 / Flight

AT SINGAPORE: His Highness the Sultan of Johore about to fly as passenger in an Audax with Sqn. Ldr. L. H. Flinn, Royal Air Force Station, Singapore. It will be remembered that last year His Highness made a gift of ?500,000 for Imperial Defence, of which ?100,000 will be devoted to the construction of buildings for the Straits Settlements Volunteer Air Force, of which Sqn. Ldr. Flinn is O/C.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-03 / D.Edwards - Flights and frights in the thirties (1)

This frontal view of a Hawker Audax shows well the positioning of the exhaust pipes, running down both sides of the fuselage. The author climbed out onto one of these pipes when he seriously considered abandoning his aircraft.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-12 / J.Read - Fledgling (2)

The author flying an Audax from Old Sarum.

Flight 1940-07 / Flight

Dive bombing is but one of the subjects in which pupils are given instruction and practice in the Advanced Training Squadron. Here is a Hawker Audax entering its dive.

Flight 1937-05 / Flight

A WHIFF OF CORDITE: An Audax pilot at front-gun practice on the range at Hell's Mouth, an inlet on the Carnarvonshire coast. The drogue target is towed on a 1,000-ft. wire.

Flight 1934-11 / Flight

THE PUFF TARGET: Practising artillery reconnaissance. The "Audax" is flying low so as to appear in the photograph. Small smoke cartridges are exploded on the ground to represent shell bursts round a target, and the pilot sends down W/T messages to correct the aim.

Flight 1935-01 / Flight

Artillery Reconnaissance: This "Audax" of No. 16 (A.C.) Squadron is practising with a puff target. The smoke puffs are exploded from the ground to represent shell-bursts, and the pilot sends down a wireless observation after each salvo until he has directed the battery on to the target. This machine is flying comparatively low in order to appear in the photograph.

Aviation Historian 40 / V.Flintham - Dirty work (1)

A Hawker Audax of No 4 Flying Training School drops practice bombs filled with stannic chloride at Abu Sueir in Egypt in 1936. As stannic chloride is an oxide of tin, which was in short supply by the end of the First World War, it was sometimes substituted with a mixture of silicon tetrachloride and titanium tetrachloride, which had much the same effect.

Flight 1937-05 / Flight

A Hawker Audax at the Northolt Empire Air Day rehearsal picks up a message strung between rifles.

Aeroplane Monthly 2000-12 / P.Preston, W.Burrows - Personal album /Readers' photographs/

An airborne close-up of an Abu Sueir Audax; note the cooling louvres in the top cowl, to keep it cool in the Middle Eastern heat.

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-11

An Audax of the Advanced Training Squadron, No 4 FTS Abu Sueir. Note ATS fuselage markings, the thermometer fastened to the rear starboard interplane strut, and the ring and bead gunsight. Audaxes were used in ATS for front gun air-to-air tiring against drogues towed by Fairey Gordons, and for air-to-ground firing. Bombing was "high level” from 6,000ft. using a course setting bomb sight and had to be done by pupils working in pairs. The thermometer was needed for setting temperatures in bombing corrections - possibly for airspeed corrections. The Audax was also used for navigation cross country training.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-11 / J.Read - Fledgling (1)

The author’s snapshot of RAF Tern Hill taken from either a Hart or an Audax. Flying training from Tern Hill began in February 1936 and was to continue there right up to 1976.

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-05 / N.Hearn-Phillips - Pilot's progress

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-05 / N.Hearn-Phillips - Pilot's progress

In practising wind finding and bomb aiming exercises with the course-setting bomb sight, the observer lay prone in the rear cockpit beneath the pilot’s feet, peering through the opening in the floor, frozen and nauseated by fumes from the engine.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-12 / J.Read - Fledgling (2)

A trio of 9 FTS Hawker Audaxes taking off from RAF Hullavington in April 1940.

Flight 1940-07 / Flight

Shadows and camouflage lend a bizarre air to this take-off picture of a flight of Audaxes. The Audax has been many years in service but is still giving a good account of itself. It is fast being replaced by monoplanes like the Master and Harvard.
Audax trainers (K7425 nearest) make a low pass over an airfield under construction. They are wearing the standard training camouflage introduced just before the war - green and brown top-sides and yellow undersurfaces

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-01 / F.Adkin - Memoirs of Aircraftsman (1)

A sight to inspire would-be Aircraftmen; the Hawker Audaxes of No 26(AC) Squadron with message hooks at the ready at the Hendon Pageant of June 1935.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-06 / ??? - RAF Pageantry

With hooks at the ready six 26 Sqn Audaxes come in low over the crowd to snatch messages from the ground.

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-06 / ??? - RAF Pageantry

Schoolchildren marvel at 26 Sqn’s Audaxes from the roof of a bus.

Flight 1935-07 / Flight

Juvenile, but nevertheless critical, interest was not lacking. The picking-up of messages by the six "Audaxes" of No. 26 (A.C.) Squadron certainly met with approval.

Flight 1936-01 / Flight

IN THE EAST: A striking picture of a flight of three Hawker machines of No. 208 (Army Co-operation) Squadron flying over Cairo. This squadron is stationed at Heliopolis and is the only one of that class in the Middle East Command. It has been stated that the concentration of Italian troops and Air Force units in Libya is regarded as a possible menace to Egypt, in case Signor Mussolini should decide that some sanctions constituted a casus belli. Sir Samuel Hoare, however, made mention of British reinforcements in Egypt, Malta and Aden.

Flight 1937-01 / Flight

The hook suspended from the axle of this Hawker Audax (Rolls-Royce Kestrel), in close formation with another over some of Cairo's more modern buildings, indicates that it is an army cooperation type and as such an invaluable unit in the organisation of Middle-Eastern defence.

Flight 1935-01 / Flight

In Echelon: A Flight of No. 16 (A.C.) Squadron Hawker "Audax" machines (Rolls-Royce "Kestrel").

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-09 / ??? - Hendon Pageantry 1920-37

A Hawker Audax neatly disposes of a kite balloon, much to the satisfaction of the 1932 crowd.

Flight 1934-07 / Flight

THE ATTACK: A low-down "strafe" upon the Magazine by No. 13 (Army Co-operation) Squadron, while the balloon, forming part of the "apron," is brought down in flames

Flight 1936-07 / Flight

Hawker Audaxes dropping supplies by parachute in the Army Cooperation event - nine machines each dropped two 150 lb. containers, which would mean over a ton of supplies in all

Flight 1935-07 / Flight

Hawker "Audaxes" of No. 26 (A.C.) Squadron deliver the goods. Provisions are dropped in special parachute-equipped containers from the bomb racks.

Air Pictorial 1977-07 / M.Bowyer - R.A.F. on Parade - the 1935 Jubilee Review

Hawker Audax of No. 26 Squadron pass by with their message pick-up hooks down, a helpful feature in identifying this variant of the Hart

Flight 1935-10 / Flight

The Attack: Dive bombing has recently been added to the functions of army co-operation squadrons. Here the two leading "Audax" machines are beginning to "cartwheel" in turn into the dive.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-12 / J.Read - Fledgling (2)

16 Sqn Audaxes during exercises near Old Sarum in September 1934.

Flight 1938-07 / Flight

Training aircraft of No. 9 F.T.S.: Anson, Hart and Audax.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Avro Anson / Type 652 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1935Hawker Hart - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1928

Flight 1939-02 / Flight

Hawker Audax army co-operation machines of the Straits Settlements Volunteer Air Force over the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon, on their first International flight - Singapore-Rangoon-Singapore - about four months ago.

Flight 1934-09 / Flight

RECONNOITRING: A flight of No. 2 (Army Co-operation) Squadron flying over a camp in recent Army manoeuvres. The machines are Hawker "Audax" with Rolls-Royce "Kestrel." Working in a flight usually indicates that A.C. machines are on medium reconnaissance. Close reconnaissance is carried out by a single machine.

Aeroplane Monthly 1992-07 / I.Martin - In at the deep end

Hawker Audaxes of 208 Squadron in 1935, probably at RAF Heliopolis in Egypt.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-03 / W.Smith - The Flying Shuftis

An impressive line-up of 208 Squadron Audaxes, Fairey Gordons and Vickers Valentias at RAF Heliopolis in early 1939. Atlases had been phased out of service with 208 Squadron by the end of 1935, superseded by the Audax.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Fairey Gordon / Seal - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1931Vickers Valentia - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1980-03

R.A.F. bomber squadrons are stationed abroad. Here is a striking “pose” by the machines and personnel of the R.A.F. station at Heliopolis. This picture was taken last year, before re-equipment.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Fairey Gordon / Seal - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1931Vickers Valentia - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934

Air Pictorial 1977-05 / J.Holmes - The Hart Family (2)

Line-up of Audax (India) of No. 20 Squadron in the late 1930s. Nearest two machines are K4854 ”N" and K4845 "A", both built by Gloster

Air Enthusiast 2007-07 / A.Thomas - Fledgling Eagles /Air forces/

An Audax of 1 Squadron SRAF still un-camouflaged at a barren strip in Kenya in late 1939.

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-08

S. Edwards sends this photo of a South African Air Force Audax taken in 1941 at No 22 Air School, Vereeniging, where aircraft were assembled. When Japan entered the war it was rumoured that Audaxes might be armed - were they?

Моделист-Конструктор Ближние разведчики, корректировщики и штурмовики Второй мировой войны

Южноафриканский "Одэкс" I, 1940 г.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1990-02

Aeroplane Monthly 2001-12 / D.Gratze - The Takoradi Run /Wartime ferrying/ (2)

Hurricane “4”, with its cockpit protected from the glare of the sun, on a Middle East airfield. In the background are a Hawker Audax, a Bristol Blenheim, and another ferry-tank-equipped Hurricane.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Bristol Blenheim IV / Bolingbroke - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1937Hawker Hurricane - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1935

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1980-02 / Weston-on-the-Green

GAL Hotspurs and glider-tug Audax K7328 of No.2 Glider Training School, Weston-on-the-Green, 24.6.42

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Avro Anson / Type 652 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1935General Aircraft Hotspur / Twin Hotspur / GAL.48 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1940

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-07 / B.Gunston - Hotspur hindsight

Hotspurs at a Glider Training School, 1942. Avro-built Audax tug K7328 and an Anson can be seen in the distance.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Avro Anson / Type 652 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1935General Aircraft Hotspur / Twin Hotspur / GAL.48 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1940

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1995-03

No. 72 Squadron on a (hopefully) friendly visit to their suppliers, Gloster Aircraft at Hucclecote. There is a Cierva C-30A lurking in the background beside Audax K3098.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Cierva/Avro C.30A / Rota - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1932Gloster Gladiator - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934

Aeroplane Monthly 1992-07 / I.Martin - In at the deep end

This aerial view of RAF Habbaniya shows how Audaxes and Gladiators were tucked in by the trees in order to hide them from the guns on the plateau at the top of the picture. Two of these aircraft are burning, having been strafed by Iraqi Audaxes.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Gloster Gladiator - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934

Air Pictorial 1977-05 / J.Holmes - The Hart Family (2)

One of twenty-four Armstrong-Siddeley Panther-engined Audax built by Avro for the Ft. Egyptian A.F. and delivered in 1937-38. Serials were K400-405 (with Panther V1A engines) and K501-518 (Panther X)

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1938 / 02 - The progress of the world in military aviation during the year 1937-38

"Одэкс" египетской авиации с мотором "Пантер"
One of the Hawker "Audax" Biplanes (750 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley "Panther X" engine) recently supplied to the Egyptian Army Air Force, which, under the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, shares with the R.A.F. the responsibility for the air defence of Egypt, the Sudan and the Canal Zone.

Flight 1937-02 / Flight

THE INSCRUTABLE SMILE: Several Avro 626s with Siddeley Cheetah engines have been supplied to the Egyptian Army Air Force, which has now ordered some Hawker Audaxes, as seen here, with Panther engines, presumably because of its experience with Siddeley products and not out of national gratitude for the well-known trade mark. Note how the Vickers gun mounting has been transferred outboard and the cowling grooved to clear the engine.

Flight 1939-02 / Flight

A Hawker Audax of the Egyptian Air Force. This version is fitted with a Siddeley Panther X two-row engine.

Air International 1982-05 / ??? - Egypt: an air power in transition (2)

One of the REAF's Panther-engined Audaxes in service with No 4 Sqn at Almaza in 1940. Posed in front of the aircraft is its pilot. Lt Mustapha Mahir.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1983-01 / The Egyptian Air Force 1931-1945

First real 'operational' type with the REAF was the Hawker Audax, fitted with a Panther VI engine

Aviation Historian 37 / L.Andersson - Wings over Baghdad

Four of the first batch of five Nisrs for the RIAF shortly after their departure from Brooklands for their new home in Iraq on September 24, 1934. The Audax was originally developed as an Army Co-operation machine for the RAF, based on the Rolls-Royce Kestrel-engined Hart Trainer, but the Iraqis fitted theirs with Pegasus engines.

Flight 1937-02 / Flight Advertisements

SUPPLIED TO IRAQ - Part of the first formation of Pegasus-engined Hawker "Audax" leaving Brooklands.

Air Enthusiast 2001-01 / Round-Out

The Hawker "Audax" ("Pegasus"), No.28, a number of which have been ordered for the Iraqi Army.

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-11 / T.Dudgeon - The Habbaniya campaign (3)

A British Pegasus powered Iraqi Air Force Audax

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-10 / T.Dudgeon - The Habbaniya campaign (2)

Thirty-four Hawker Audaxes were ordered by the Iraqi Air Force and delivered during 1936. They were powered by Bristol Pegasus engines and given the name Nisr by the IAF.
A Hawker Nisr (Audax type) army co-operation biplane of the Royal Iraq Air Force. The engine is a Bristol Pegasus.
The Royal Iraq Air Force was formed in 1931 and its first few officers were trained at the RAF College, Cranwell.

Air Enthusiast 2001-11 / K.Wixey - Hart Of The Matter (1)

FOREIGN APPRECIATION: One of the Hawker types supplied to foreign air forces. An Iraqi "Audax" ("Pegasus").
Hawker Iraqi Audax, note the Osprey-type tail unit and message pick-up hook fitted to landing gear spreader bar.

Aviation Historian 37 / L.Andersson - Wings over Baghdad

Bearing serial 28, the first of 34 Hawker Audaxes powered by Bristol Pegasus engines (and named Nisr in RIAF service) is seen here at Brooklands with the distinctive banked racing track in the background. The first 12 were delivered in late 1934 and early 1935, the remainder during 1936-37. Six more were ordered but not delivered.

Air Pictorial 1977-05 / J.Holmes - The Hart Family (2)

Another customer for the Pegasus-powered Audax was the Iraqi A.F. which acquired thirty-four aircraft. The type was known as the "Nisr" in Iraqi service

Aviation Historian 37 / L.Andersson - Wings over Baghdad

Iraqi student pilots in immaculate white flying suits pose beside a Hawker Nisr during their training in the UK circa 1934.

Flight 1934-10 / Flight

IRAQI OFFICERS: A group of pilots and observers who are flying the "Audax" ("Pegasus") machines from Lympne out to Iraq.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1938 / 02 - The progress of the world in military aviation during the year 1937-38

No. 1 Squadron, Royal 'Iraq Air Force. The machines are Hawker "Audaxes" (Bristol "Pegasus" engines).

Aeroplane Monthly 1985-06 / P.Capon - Capon's Corner

Hawker “Persian” Audax, powered by 750 h.p. Pratt & Whitney Hornet engine, seen at Brooklands in September 1933.

Air Enthusiast 2000-11 / L.Andersson - Iranian Eagles

Еще один "Одэкс" иранских ВВС, середина 30-х годов
Persia took delivery of fifty-six Audax in two versions. Shown here is an aircraft of the first batch of thirty, powered by the Pratt & Whitney Hornet. The remaining twenty-six had Bristol Pegasus engines.
The Hawker Audax became the IIAF's main operational type in the mid-1930s.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1938 / 02 - The progress of the world in military aviation during the year 1937-38

Officers of the Iranian Air Force.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1938 / 02 - The progress of the world in military aviation during the year 1937-38

Hawker "Audax" Biplanes of the Iranian Air Force.

Air Enthusiast 2000-11 / L.Andersson - Iranian Eagles

Иранский Р-5 на аэродроме. Справа - разведчик Хаукер "Одэкс" английского производства, закупленный иранцами позднее. Середина 1930-х гг.
Ten Polikarpov R-5 reconnaissance aircraft were acquired from the Soviet Union in 1933, but this type was not very popular in Iran. Aircraft 33 preparing to take off, Tiger Moth to the left and Audax is the foreground.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: De Havilland Tiger Moth / D.H.82 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1931Поликарпов Р-5 - РоссияRussia - 1928

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1994-01

Иранский Хаукер "Одэкс" летит в сопровождении "Фьюри"
A formation of an Audax and a Fury, both looking decidedly foreign by the fitment of Pratt & Whitney Hornet radials. Thirty Audaxes and sixteen Furies were ordered with Hornets but the later order for thirty-four Audaxes and six Furies required Bristol Pegasus and Mercury engines respectively as the Hornet had proved troublesome.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Hawker Fury - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1931

Aeroplane Monthly 1973-07 / ??? - Persian Audax

Persian Audax

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v3

Hawker Audax built for Persia.

Air Enthusiast 2000-11 / L.Andersson - Iranian Eagles

The standardised IIAF markings consisted of roundels on the wings, the Shah's crown emblem on the fuselage and the national colours on the rudder. The serial number was painted on the fuselage, on the rudder and under the wings. Audax 208 in the air.

Aeroplane Monthly 1973-07 / ??? - Persian Audax

Persian Audax

Aeroplane Monthly 1973-07 / ??? - Persian Audax

Persian Audax

Air Enthusiast 2000-11 / L.Andersson - Iranian Eagles

The Persian Audax was initially powered by the American Pratt & Whitney Hornet (illustrated) but the last 26 acquired were fitted with the Bristol Pegasus instead.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1989-01

The Instant Hurricanes are Audaxes from No.4 SFTS parked around Habbaniya during the attack by Iraqi forces on this airfield in June 1941. There is a Gordon in the background. This is, of course, one of Habbaniya's operational types! A number of Audaxes were struck off charge when 4 SFTS was disbanded soon after the siege and most of these were presumable the dummies produced to fool the enemy into thinking that there was something more potent in the way of fighter defence than a handful of elderly Gladiators.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Fairey Gordon / Seal - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1931

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1989-01

Jack also provided the two photographs of Audax K3084 which hit a ditch and overturned in, apparently, Egypt, assuming our Egyptian Police uniform recognition holds out. The owner is not evident but the pilot was Flt Lt Grace and the passenger LAC Reed.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1989-01

Jack also provided the two photographs of Audax K3084 which hit a ditch and overturned in, apparently, Egypt, assuming our Egyptian Police uniform recognition holds out. Because the Audax straddled the ditch, the fin and rudder remain uncrushed as seen in the view of the aircraft being righted. Any ideas as to the unit concerned?

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-03 / D.Edwards - Flights and frights in the thirties (1)

10 FTS Hawker Audax K5206 causing disruption on the LMS railway line between Madeley and Whitmore, 10 miles south of Crewe, on September 9, 1936.

Aeroplane Monthly 2000-12 / P.Preston, W.Burrows - Personal album /Readers' photographs/

Having survived an earlier crash at Abu Sueir on June 17, 1937, Hawker Audax K7538 undershot on approach at night on October 25, 1938, and hit the hut in the background. Both were written off.

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-12 / T.Neil - Montrose Memories

“We bend ’em, you mend ’em"; Harts and Audaxes had a tendency to bounce and turn over when light. Audax K5151 was with 5 FTS when it went missing off the Isle of Man on January 8, 1940.

Aeroplane Monthly 2000-12 / P.Preston, W.Burrows - Personal album /Readers' photographs/

Bristol-built Audax K5234 flew into the ground while attacking a target on the Abu Sueir ranges on May 17, 1939.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1988-03 / Picture page

Audax K4842 of No.20 Squadron crashed on approach to Peshawar on 24 April 1940 and was written off. It bore the code letter HN-B, designed to conceal the squadron's true identity from any German spies disguised as Pathans.

Aeroplane Monthly 1997-02 / J.Maynard - Drawn to the skies (1)

Habbaniya, May 1941, when Oxfords and Audax trainers of 4 FTS in Iraq fought off an anti-British uprising led by Raschid Ali.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Airspeed Oxford / AS.10 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1937

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