MR HAWKER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 21 May 1919, Page 5

MR HAWKER.

Mr Harry G. Hawker, the noted Australian aviator, flies a Sopwith bipltsne, of the land type, with an engine oi 375 horse-power, weighing 61001b5., and with a flying speed of 105 miles per hour, and a cruising, range of 25 hours. Hawker, who has b«en with Raynhani and other aviators for a long lime in Newfoundland, lux's been repeatedly delayed by bad weather and boggy conditions on the aerodrome. Hawker has been very successful in exhibition and prize flights. He won the prize of £1000 given by the Daily Mail for the Around Great Britain competition. He came to Australia in January 1914, and gave exhibition flights at CaulfLeTJ (\ letoria) and Randwick. His machine then was a-Spp,with biplane, of small dimensions, engined with an 80 h.p. Gnome. When Hawker took up avia« tion first he spent a year in England learning all that could be taught in those days (1912-13). and.in the course of h%: studentship he made a British aviation record by flying for 8 hours 23 minutes without a stop. After that hf .made what were then height records for pilot alone, pilot and one passenger, pilot and two passengers, and pilot and three, passengers. Just before the war broke out he succeeded in a flight around Great Britain on a Sopwith seaplane. j