Английская Википедия:Hawker Hotspur
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The Hawker Hotspur was a fighter aircraft used principally by the Royal Air Force. It was designed in response to Air Ministry Specification F.9/35, which required a powered turret as the main armament to replace the Hawker Demon. It was developed from the Hawker Henley, which was redesigned to take a Boulton-Paul semi-powered four gun turret.[1][2]
Design and development
In the same fashion as the Henley, the Hotspur used standard Hawker Hurricane outer wing panels. One prototype aircraft, K8309, was built in 1937, fitted with armament of four 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns in a Boulton Paul dorsal turret plus one .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun mounted in the front fuselage.[3] The completion of the prototype was delayed until 1938, by which time the rival Boulton Paul Defiant had already flown. The Hotspur first flew on 14 June 1938 with only a wooden mock-up of the turret and with ballast equivalent to the weight of armament.
Testing and evaluation
As Hawker was committed to the production of Hurricanes and Gloster to Henley production, there was insufficient capacity to introduce another type and production was abandoned.[4] The mock-up turret was removed and a cockpit fairing installed. Planned production by Avro to Specification 17/36 was abandoned and the prototype, less turret, was used at the RAE Farnborough to test flap and dive brake configurations until 1942.
Specifications (Hotspur)
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
- Brew, Alex. The Turret Fighters – Defiant and Roc. Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK: Crowood Press, 2002. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Hannah, Donald. Hawker FlyPast Reference Library. Stamford, Lincolnshire, UK: Key Publishing Ltd., 1982. Шаблон:ISBN.
- James, Derek N. Hawker, an Aircraft Album No. 5. New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1973. Шаблон:ISBN. (First published in the UK by Ian Allan in 1972.)
- Mason, Francis K. The British Fighter since 1912. Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute Press, 1992. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Mason, Francis K. Hawker Aircraft since 1920. Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute Press, 1991. Шаблон:ISBN. (3rd US edition, originally published in the UK by Putnam Aeronautical Books in 1961 and 1971)
External links
- Hawker Hotspur – British Aircraft of World War II
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- ↑ Hannah 1982, p. 47.
- ↑ James 1973, p. 82.
- ↑ Hawker Hotspur – British Aircraft of World War II
- ↑ Buttler, British Secret Projects: Fighters and Bombers 1935–1950 Midland Publishing
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