| Tango01 | 10 Jun 2015 12:48 p.m. PST |
"The British Hawker Hind was a Royal Air Force light bomber of the inter-war years produced by Hawker Aircraft. It was developed from the Hawker Hart day-bomber introduced in 1931…"
Full article here
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Armand |
| boy wundyr x | 10 Jun 2015 2:34 p.m. PST |
That lineage of planes, Hart, Hind, Fury, were some of the prettiest ever. |
| jowady | 10 Jun 2015 2:43 p.m. PST |
I always thought so as well boy wundyr x. |
 20thmaine  | 10 Jun 2015 4:08 p.m. PST |
A truly beautiful aeroplane. The Fury is a beauty too : link |
| StarCruiser | 10 Jun 2015 6:20 p.m. PST |
And sadly, out of date within a few years – like most aircraft designed around that time… |
| boggler | 11 Jun 2015 2:15 a.m. PST |
My grandad flew one of those on the NWF |
| 20thmaine | 11 Jun 2015 5:07 a.m. PST |
And sadly, out of date within a few years – like most aircraft designed around that time…
True – but in the usual way with technology about to go obsolete they still had the edge – just – on the monoplanes that were about to replace them. In th e same way the Spitfire Mk XXIV is a beautiful bird – but it achieved perfection just as it was about to be replaced by jet engined fighters. |
| Tango01 | 11 Jun 2015 10:30 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it boys. Amicalement
Armand |
| StarCruiser | 11 Jun 2015 8:05 p.m. PST |
Aircraft technology was advancing so fast during the first 50 years – it's amazing how stagnant it seems now. It takes something like 10-20 years to design any modern combat aircraft and they are usually nearly obsolete by the time their done (if they get finished at all). In the 1920s and 30s, aircraft designs came and went within a few years. Admittedly, the technology was also simpler at that time, not that different from WWI but even then…? |
| boy wundyr x | 12 Jun 2015 12:19 p.m. PST |
Changeover was pretty rapid after WWII too, up till the early 1960s I'd say. Those early jets were kinda like the biplanes in that sense. |
BlackWidowPilot  | 12 Jun 2015 3:55 p.m. PST |
The Hawker Hart/Hind/Fury were along with the Fiat CR 32 the most elegant of the interwar aircraft IMHO. I've often thought that if I ever do an interwar ImagiNation project, one side will have Hawker biplanes for their air force… "Hail! Hail! Freedonia!"  Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net |
| StarCruiser | 13 Jun 2015 7:46 a.m. PST |
I'm still rather fond of the Curtis P-6E Hawk: link |
| 20thmaine | 22 Jun 2015 4:36 p.m. PST |
In the 1920s and 30s, aircraft designs came and went within a few years. or even quicker – you get planes going obsolete between being designed and being ordered, so what was going to be the front line fighter gets the order cancelled, everything already built goes straight to the training school whilst a new version is worked up with a bigger engine, modifed wings, etc etc. It must have been such an exciting time. |
