Авиация / Hawker's Secret Cold War Airfield : Dunsfold: Home of the Hunter and Harrier

Название: Hawker's Secret Cold War Airfield : Dunsfold: Home of the Hunter and Harrier
Автор: Christopher Budgen
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2020
Страниц: 338
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 45 MB

In 1948, Hawker Aircraft, faced with new jet projects that could not use their existing airfield at Langley, began the process of searching for alternative accommodation for their flight-testing requirements. It would, however, take three hard years before Dunsfold Aerodrome would be made available by a reluctant Air Ministry and the company was able to launch its first jet aircraft design – the Sea Hawk – into series production for the Royal Navy, closely followed by the superlative Hunter. Hawker Aircraft would go on to produce nearly 2,000 Hunters before other projects came to the fore.