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'. Twenty-five
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.' Born in 1893, the eldest of
twelve children, Camm was raised in a small, terraced house.
Despite lacking the advantages of a financially-secure upbringing
and formal technical education after leaving school at 14, Camm
would go on to become one of the most important people in the story
of Britain's aviation history. Sydney Camm's work on the Hurricane
was far from the only pinnacle in his remarkable career in aircraft
design and engineering - a career that stretched from the biplanes
of the 1920s to the jet fighters of the Cold War. Indeed, over
fifty years after his death, the revolutionary Hawker Siddeley
Harrier in which Camm played such a prominent figure, following a
stellar performance in the Falkland Island crisis', still remains
in service with the American armed forces. It is perhaps
unsurprising therefore, as the author reveals in this detailed
biography, that Camm would be knighted in his own country, receive
formal honours in France and the United States, and be inducted
into the International Hall of Fame in San Diego.
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