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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 0237.PDF
FLIGHT, 25 February 1955 237 Above a downy bed of stratus. Hunter F.2s of No. 257 Squadron array themselves in echelon starboard. They are descended from illustrious forebears, among which was the Fury biplane (below)—the R.A.F.'s first interceptor. THE HUNTERS ARE HERE Their Ancestry: and a Day with the Squadrons at Wattisham PALADIN among military aircraft is the intercepter—a fighter designed to take offat the shortest notice, ascend to the designated level in the briefest time possible,engage its quarry forthwith and destroy it with certainty. It has a British ancestry, stemming from Air Ministry Specification F.20/27, to the requirements of which biplanes by Hawker, Bristol and Gloster and monoplanes by Westland and Vickers were submitted for tests during 1929. The prescribed engine having proved capricious, Hawker and Fairey put forward private-venture biplanes, using the brilliant new Rolls-Royce "F," or Kestrel, and there ensued the famous tussle Hawker Homet versus Fairey Firefly, from which the Hornet—later renamed the Fury—emerged victorious in 1930. The prize was a production order for sufficient aircraft to equip Two great fighters in the Hawker tradition: the Hurri- cane and the Hunter.
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