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1957
1957 - 0370.PDF
372 . Hawker (A.W.A.) Sea Hawk. Although the prototypes of this standard F.A.A. fighter/bomber were designed and built by Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., production and development has been entirely in the hands of Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd. All variants have been powered with the Rolls-Royce Nene centri- fugal rirbojet, and the latest versions—the F.B.5 and FGA.6—have a Nene of higher thrust than was fitted in earlier marks. Built-in gun armament is four 20 mm British Hispanos, and under-wing pro- vision is made for bombs, rocket projectiles and/or auxiliary tanks. The Sea Hawk has been adopted by Holland and Germany. FIRST-LINE EQUI DEPICTED and briefly described in these pages are the types of aircraft, and the individual carriers, that now comprise the first-line force of the Fleet Air Arm, or that will soon be coming into service. Of the aircraft it must be added that a supersonic jet-propelled strike machine, the Blackburn N.A.39, is on order as a successor to the Westland Wyvern, and that an early-warning version of the Fairey Gannet (sub-type AEW.3) is in production for replacement of the American-built Skyraider. The Westland Wessex helicopter—a development of the American Sikorsky S-58, powered with a Napier Gazelle gas turbine— will succeed the Whirlwind. Anti-submarine operations will be its main task.
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