Edgar Kain
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Edgar James Kain, DFC was a New Zealand fighter pilot and flying ace who flew in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
Royal Air Force France, 1939 1940. C1147
No. 73 Squadron Hawker Hurricanes in flight over France
A formal publicity photograph of Kain following the announcement of the award of his Distinguished Flying Cross
Cobber Kain, wearing his flying helmet and standing in the cockpit of his Hawker Hurricane
Hawker Hurricane
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The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–40s which was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. for service with the Royal Air Force. It was overshad
Edgar Kain
…RAF in 1936. He completed his flight training the following year and was posted to the RAF's No. 73 Squadron, flying the Gloster Gladiator and then the Hawker Hurricane. On the outbreak of the Second World War the squadron was dispatched to France. Kain began flying operational sorties during the Phoney War and gained…
Hurricane Mk I, R4118, currently the world's only airworthy Hurricane to have fought in the Battle of Britain
An early mock-up for the Hurricane's fuselage, showing side fuselage-mounted synchronised machine gun, like earlier British biplane fighters
K5083, the prototype, photographed before its first flight in November 1935
Hurricane production line, 1942