Hawker Hotspur

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Hotspur

Hawker Hotspur (BAE Systems photo)
Type Fighter
Manufacturer Hawker
Designed by Sydney Camm
Maiden flight 14 June 1938
Primary user Royal Air Force(intended)
Number built 1
Variants (Derivative of Hawker Henley)

The Hawker Hotspur was a Hawker Henley redesigned to take a Boulton-Paul semi-powered four gun turret. 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.[1][2]

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[edit] Design and development

In the same fashion as the Henley, the Hotspur utilised standard Hurricane outer wing panels. [3] One prototype aircraft, K8309, was built in 1937, fitted with armament of four 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Brownings in a B-P dorsal turret plus one Vickers gun mounted in the front fuselage. [4] 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. [3]

[edit] Testing and evaluation

As Hawker was committed to the production of Henleys and Hurricanes the project was abandoned. The mock-up turret was removed and a cockpit fairing installed. Planned production by Avro to Specification 17/36 was abandoned and the prototype, with turret removed, served at the RAE Farnborough on miscellaneous test programmes of flap and dive brake configurations until 1942.[3]

[edit] Specifications (Hotspur)

Data from Hawker Aircraft since 1920[5]

General characteristics

  • Crew: Two (pilot & gunner)
  • Length: 32 ft 10½ in (10.02 m)
  • Wingspan: 40 ft 6 in (12.34 m)
  • Height: 13 ft 10 in (4.22 m)
  • Wing area: 342 ft² [6] (31.8 m²)
  • Empty weight: 5,800 lb (2,630 kg)
  • Max takeoff weight: 7,650 lb (3,470 kg)
  • Powerplant: 1× Rolls-Royce Merlin II hp V-12 inline piston engine, 1,030 hp (768 kW)

Performance

Armament

[edit] See also

Related development

Comparable aircraft

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[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Hannah 1982, p. 47.
  2. ^ James 1973, p. 82.
  3. ^ a b c Hawker Hotspur 1938
  4. ^ Hawker Hotspur
  5. ^ Mason 1991
  6. ^ Mason 1992, p. 270.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Brew, Alex. The Turret Fighters - Defiant and Roc. Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK: Crowood Press, 2002. ISBN 1-86126-497-6.
  • Hannah, Donald. Hawker FlyPast Reference Library. Stamford, Lincolnshire, UK: Key Publishing Ltd., 1982. ISBN 0-946219-01-X.
  • James, Derek N. Hawker, an Aircraft Album No. 5. New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1973. ISBN 0-668-02699-5. (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. ISBN 1-55750-082-7.
  • Mason, Francis K. Hawker Aircraft since 1920. Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute Press, 1991. ISBN 1-55750-351-6. (3rd US edition, originally published in the UK by Putnam Aeronautical Books in 1961 and 1971)

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