Sydney Camm : Hurricane and Harrier designer
Sweetman, John2019
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'This Man Saved Britain' ran a headline in the News Chronicle on 18 February 1941, in a reference to the role of Sydney Camm, designer of the Hawker Hurricane, during the Battle of Britain. Similarly, the Minister of Economic Warfare, Lord Selborne, advised Winston Churchill that to Camm 'England owed a great deal'. 25 years later, following his death in 1966, obituaries in the Sunday Express and Sunday Times, among other tributes, referred to `Hurricane Designer' or 'Hurricane Maker', implying that this machine represented the pinnacle of Camm's professional achievement. Sir Thomas Sopwith, the respected aircraft designer and Hawker aircraft company founder, believed that Camm deserved much wider recognition, being 'undoubtedly the greatest designer of fighter aircraft the world has ever known'.
Main title:
Sydney Camm : Hurricane and Harrier designer / John Sweetman.
Author:
Sweetman, John, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Air World, 2019.
Collation:
264 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781526756220 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
629.130092920 CAMM
Language:
English
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BRN:
1941172
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