On Saturday 9 September 1911, Gustav Hamel flew a Blériot monoplane 21 miles from Hendon to Windsor to deliver the first airmail letters. This was a nationally reported event and was bound to have been noted by an 18-year-old Windsor resident called Sydney Camm. Camm’s father was a carpenter and the family lived in a small Victorian terraced house on Alma Road.

Camm had joined the Windsor Model Aeroplane Club. In the year following Hamel’s memorable flight, Sydney together with his fellow enthusiasts at the club (who were clearly inspired and technically capable people) built a full-sized man-carrying glider. Between 1914 and 1918 Camm went to work for the G. H. Martinsdale aeroplane company. Here he designed his first aeroplanes.

In 1922 Sydney Camm moved to the Hawker Engineering Company in Kingston-upon-Thames. It was at Hawker that he was to design some of the most iconic aircraft of the first half of the 20th Century.

Chief among these was the Hawker Hurricane, first British fighter to exceed 300mph in level flight. The prototype Hawker Hurricane first took to the air on 6th November 1935 at Brooklands airfield near Weybridge in Surrey.
windsor-berkshire.co.uk/history-of-windsor/hawker-hurricaine

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