The company primarily manufactured railway boxcars but now the Allies) needed Hawker Hurricane airplanes and quickly. The daunting task fell to Elsie MacGill. The 35-year-old Canadian was one of ...

When a pilot suffered an eye injury while flying a Hawker Hurricane Mk ... but his most indelible mark on history was inadvertently inspiring a surgical procedure that has saved the sight of ...

Richard Overy, a professor of modern history at King's College ... There is no myth surrounding the performance of the Hawker Hurricane and Vickers Supermarine Spitfire, which between them ...