Gloster Aircraft Company
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The Gloster Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1917 to 1963.
A Bristol F.2B Fighter of No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps flown by Ross Smith in Palestine, February 1918.
The Gloster Mars, a derivative of the Nieuport Nighthawk
Hawker Typhoon during wartime, with black and white identification stripes under the wings
Frank Whittle's memorial showing a full-scale model of the Gloster E28/39
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 (RAF). It was overshadowed in the public consciousness by the Supermarine Spitfire during the Battle of Britain in 1940, but the Hurricane inflicted 60% of the losses sustained by the Luftwaffe in the campaign, and fought in all the major theatres of the Second World War.
Hawker Hurricane
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