FIGHTING AEROPLANE.
NAMED AFTER HAWKER. AIRMAN’S “LIFE” PUBLISHED. London, Sept. 21. The “Sopwith-Hawker No. 1,” a super-fighting scout aeroplane carrying a pilot and gunner, is being built to the order of the Air Ministry by the Hawker Engineering Works, which were founded by the dead Australian airman. The machine has a speed of 160 miles an hour, a landing speed of 40, and a height capacity of more than 30.000 feet. The press appreciatively review’s the life of Hawker written and published by his widow. The London ’‘Evening News” says: “It is an intensely interesting record, not only of achievements, but of the character, aims and disposition of an aiirman whose exploits will forever live in the history of aviation.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 244, 28 September 1922, Page 5
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120FIGHTING AEROPLANE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 244, 28 September 1922, Page 5
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