Historical: August 2009 Archives

This week's Image of the Week is, according to AirSpace user Jameister, a Bucker Jungman, performing a flyby at Old Warden.

In a Flight article in 1940 we wrote: "the standard R.A.F. machines for primary instruction (D.H. Tiger Moth and Miles Magister) [has] no more than 130 h.p. Germany, [while] a Bucker Jungman utilises even less power (80 h.p.) and apparently obtains good results.

This image was uploaded by AirSpace user FlyPHANUK and shows a Hawker Sea Hurricane in an aerial display that took place one evening recently at Old Warden and the Shuttleworth Collection, an aerodrome in Bedfordshire, UK.

See more images in FlyPHANUK's gallery on AirSpace...

More on the Hawker Hurricane discovered in Flight International's 100 year pdf archive:

• Speeding up - "Just recently a new type has been added to the experimental aeroplanes which in time will take their places as part of the flying equipment of our defence forces." (Issue date November 14 1935)  
• The Hurricane - first of the modern fighters 
• The Harrassing Hurricane - its exploits in Africa and Greece (1943)
• The Last of the Many - "This week marks the delivery of the last Hurricane from the production line of Hawker Aircraft, Ltd. ..." (Issue date 24 August 1944)