Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAeS (August 5, 1893 – March 12, 1966) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Founded in 1866 The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a multidisciplinary professional institution dedicated to the entire global Aerospace Events 642 - Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia. Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English One particularly notable aircraft he designed is the Hawker Hurricane fighter. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout
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Early Years
Camm was a towering giant as an aeronautical engineer, but his beginnings were humble. He developed an interest in aircraft at an early age and his first interest in aeronautics was spurred on by his membership in the Windsor Model Aeroplane Club. Aeronautics (from Greek aero which means air or sky and nautis which means sailor i His accomplishments as a model aeroplane builder culminated in a man-carrying glider which he and others at the club built in 1912.
Aviation career
Camm joined the Hawker Aircraft Company (later Hawker Siddeley) as a draughtsman in 1925. Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies renowned for their aircraft production. A technical drawing is a form of graphic communication This type of Drawing is used in the transforming of an idea into physical form He took part in the design of many Hawker aircraft, including the Hawker Tomtit, Cygnet, Hornbill, Nimrod, Hart and Fury. The Hawker Tomtit is a British training biplane from the late 1920s The Hawker Cygnet was a British ultralight biplane aircraft of the 1920s The Hawker Hornbill was the last Hawker military aircraft designed under the direction of W The Hawker Nimrod was a British carrier-based Fighter aircraft built between the First World War and the Second World War by Hawker Aircraft The Hawker Hart was a British two-seater Biplane light-bomber of the Royal Air Force (RAF which had a prominent role during the RAF's inter-war period WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout
He then moved to designing planes that would become mainstays of the RAF in the Second World War including the Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout With the Hawker Hurricane, Sydney Camm moved from the technology of the biplane to contemporary monoplane fighter aircraft. A biplane is a Fixed-wing aircraft with two main Wings The first powered heavier-than-air Aircraft, the Wright brothers' Wright Flyer For Félix du Temple 's invention see ''Monoplane'' (1874 Types of monoplane The main distinction in types of monoplane is The result was that fighters flew faster, and with the improved engine technology of the time, higher, and could be made more deadly than ever.
- "Camm had a one-tracked mind – his aircraft were right, and everybody had to work on them to get them right. If they did not, then there was hell. He was a very difficult man to work for, but you could not have a better aeronautical engineer to work under. [. . . ] With regard to his own staff, he did not suffer fools gladly, and at times many of us appeared to be fools. One rarely got into trouble for doing something either in the ideas line, or in the manufacturing line, but woe betide those who did nothing, or who put forward an indeterminate solution. "[1]
When the Typhoon's design first emerged and entered squadron service, pilots became aware that there was elevator flutter and buffetting at high speeds, due to the positioning of the heavy Napier Sabre engine very close to the wing root. An elevator or lift is a Transport device used to move people or goods vertically from one floor to another WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Also, engineering an aircraft to travel at higher speeds and handle compressibility effects was one of the challenges of the day, but with his small design team of 100 members at Hawker, Camm managed to solve these problems and make the Typhoon an effective combat weapon even at these speeds. The term sonic boom is commonly used to refer to the shocks caused by the Supersonic flight of an aircraft As operational requirements changed, the Typhoon was used more in the role of a fighter-bomber where its low level performance and weapon-carrying capabilities created a legendary performance.
The lessons learned on the Hawker Typhoon were incorporated in the follow-up to this design, the Hawker Tempest. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout As soon as the Typhoon entered service, the Air Ministry requested a new design. The Air Ministry was formerly a department of the British Government with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force. Camm recommended that they keep the existing design of the Typhoon for the large part, with modifications to the aerofoil. An airfoil (in American English) or aerofoil (in British English) is the shape of a Wing or blade (of a Propeller, rotor He had also considered the new and powerful Napier Sabre and Bristol Centaurus engines. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout When the question came as to which engine to use, Camm decided that they would use both. As it happened, the Tempest Mk 5 used the Napier Sabre, while the Tempest Mk 2 used the Bristol Centaurus. The design modifications to be made to the aircraft to switch from one engine type to another were minimal, so much so that there was little assistance needed in ferrying these aircraft all the way to India and Pakistan, in the final days of the conflict. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and
Postwar
After the Second World War, Sydney Camm created many jet powered designs which would became important aircraft in the Cold War era. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the Notable among these are his contributions to the Hawker P.1127 Kestrel, the progenitor of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Harrier is a well-known vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft designed at Hawker Siddeley, which would later merge into the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), now known as BAE Systems. VTOL is an abbreviation for Vertical Take-Off and Landing. VTOL describes Fixed-wing aircraft that can lift off vertically VTOL is an abbreviation for Vertical Take-Off and Landing. VTOL describes Fixed-wing aircraft that can lift off vertically The British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC) was a British Aircraft manufacturer formed from the government-pressured merger of English Electric Aviation BAE Systems plc (BAE is a British defence and aerospace company headquartered in Farnborough, England, that has global interests particularly The Harrier was one of the radical concept aircraft which took shape in post-war Britain, which required the coming together of many important technology, such as vectored thrust engines like the Rolls-Royce Pegasus and technologies like the Reaction Control System. Thrust vectoring is the ability of an Aircraft or other vehicle to direct the Thrust from its main Engine (s in a direction other than parallel to WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout A reaction control system, abbreviated RCS, is a subsystem of a Spacecraft. Camm played a major role in determining these and other vital Harrier systems. In 1953, he was knighted for these and other achievements and his contribution to British Aviation. [2]
Camm worked on many aircraft made by Hawker before the Harrier, including what is probably his most significant aircraft after the Second World War, the Hawker Hunter. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout
Before he died in 1966, he was planning the design of an aircraft to travel at Mach 4, or four times the speed of sound. Mach number (\mathrm{Ma} or M (generally ˈmɑːk sometimes /ˈmɑːx/ or /ˈmæk/ is the speed of an object moving through air or any Fluid It is humbling to imagine that his spectacular career in aircraft design started at a Windsor Model Aeroplane Club in 1912, where he built a glider capable of carrying a man just nine years after the first powered flight. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Sydney Camm not only was witness to many developments in aviation, he also influenced the world of aviation significantly throughout his illustrious career.
References
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- Bibliography
- Bader, Douglas. Fight for the Sky: The Story of the Spitfire and Hurricane. London: Cassell Military Books, 2004. ISBN 0-30435-674-3.
- Bowyer, Chaz. Hurricane at War. London: Ian Allen Ltd. , 1974. ISBN 0-7110-0665-2.
- Fozard, John W. , Ed. Sydney Camm & the Hurricane. London: Airlife, 1991. ISBN 1-85310-270-9.
- Jane, Fred T. "The Hawker Hurricane". Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London: Studio, 1946. ISBN 1-85170-493-0.
- Mason, Francis K. Hawker Aircraft since 1920. London: Putnam, 1991. ISBN 0-85177-839-9.
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