Hawker Hector
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The
Hawker Hector was intended as a replacement for the
Hawker Audax Army co-operation aircraft. Because of the demand for
Rolls-Royce Kestrel engines required for the
Hawker Hind program, an alternative power plant was specified. Consequently the
Napier Dagger III was used.
Although both the design and the building of the prototype was done by Hawkers, the subsequent production aircraft were built by
Westland Aircraft in
Yeovil, Devon. The prototype first flew on on 14 February 1936 with
George Bulman as pilot. One prototype and 178 production aircraft were built. Thirteen of these were supplied to Eire in 1941-2.
The aircraft were later used by the
RAF (in 1940) as target-towers, and for towing the General Aircraft Ltd Hotspur training glider.
Specification
- Span - 36' 11½” - 11.26 m
- Length - 29' 9½” - 9.06 m
- Height - 10' 5" - 3.18 m
- Empty Wt - 3389 lb - 1537 kg
- Loaded Wt - 4910 lb - 2227 kg
- Max speed - 187 mph at 6560 ft - 301 km/h at 1999 m
- Ceiling - 24000 ft - 7815 m
- Armament - one forward-firing Vickers machine gun Mk V & one Lewis gun in the rear cockpit on a Hawker mount & mountings for a Camera, flares, and two 112 lb bombs (or containers).
Reference
“Hawker Aircraft since 1920" by Francis K Mason - pub Putnam, 1961
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