Hawker Design to Spec. F.7/30

[Apophenia]

I came across this 3-view of a "1930 Day & Night Fighter" concept from Hawker but could find nothing on it using the 'Search' function.

I presume that this design was to F.7/30 -- for a heavily armed, single-engined fighter. If so, this pusher design was eclipsed by the more conventional P.V.3 which Hawker finally submitted to meet that specification. The P.V.3 was powered by a 700 hp Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine which may be what we're looking at on this pusher design too.

Source: Kingston Aviation: Kingston Design Projects - the ones that got away

http://www.kingstonaviation.org/js/plugins/filemanager/files/Brief_History_Banner__12B_Layout_1.pdf

 

[hesham]

Re: 1930 Hawker Pusher Fighter

Great find my dear Apophenia.

 

[CostasTT]

Re: 1930 Hawker Pusher Fighter

Ditto.
It does bear a startling resemblance to the Hanriot H.110, which was actually built.

 

[Apophenia]

Re: 1930 Hawker Pusher Fighter

You're right Costas ... and they'd be near contemporariy designs too. The puzzling thing about the ground attack Hanriot H.110 was how light its armament was (at least in comparison with the demands of F.7/30).

 

[CostasTT]

Re: 1930 Hawker Pusher Fighter

Two rifle-caliber machine guns were pretty much the standard armament for fighters of the era. From what I've read, the 110 was designed as a fighter, while the H.115 was apparently optimized for ground attack with a 33mm APX cannon.