Harry George Hawker, MBE, AFC (22 January 1889 – 12 July 1921) [1] was an Australian aviation pioneer. He was the chief test pilot for Sopwith and was also involved in the design of many of their aircraft. After the First World War, he co-founded Hawker Aircraft, the firm that would later be responsible for a long series of successful military aircraft.

Harry George Hawker was born on 22nd January 1889, in a small brick-built house up a narrow dirt track at South Brighton (now Moorabbin), on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. He was the second son of blacksmith George Hawker, the son of an immigrant worker from Devon, England.

Harry George Hawker (1889-1921), aviator, was born on 22 January 1889 at South Brighton, Melbourne, son of George Hawker, blacksmith, and his wife Mary Ann, née Anderson, both Victorian-born. He attended schools to the age of 12 at …

Harry George Hawker. An Australian pioneer aviator, Aircraft Designer, Engineer and Test Pilot, was born in Moorabbin on 22 January 1889. Harry became one of the world's greatest aviators. Harry left Australia for England in 1911, and in less than 12 months was Chief Test Pilot for the Sopwith Aviation Company.

The history of Harry George Hawker has been told with competence and affection by his wife, Muriel nee Peaty, in H.G. Hawker, Airman: His Life and work, published in 1922 in London. Harry George Hawker was born in South Brighton (Moorabbin) on 22 January 1889 and began work at the age of twelve years with a firm of bicycle and motor agents.

May 17, 2019 · The pilot’s name was Harry Hawker. He was born in Moorabbin, Victoria, in 1889 where today the airport is named after him. He became a bicycle mechanic, then a motor vehicle mechanic, and having caught the aviation craze, travelled to Britain in 1911. There he learned to fly and was setting aviation records with all of 24 hours in his logbook.

Harry George Hawker, 1889-1921 : HARRY GEORGE HAWKER 1889-1921 : Photo courtesy of the Moorabbin Historical Society : H.G.Hawker, Airman: His Life and work by his wife, Muriel nee Peaty published in London, 1922 the following is an extract through the courtesy of the Moorabbin Historical Society ...

Harry George Hawker was born in a Brick house on a dirt road in the country market gardening community of South Brighton (no w Moorabbin/ Highett). His farther George, a Blacksmith from Malmsbury Victoria and his Mother Mary Ann from Stawell.; As a child he took interest in the Steam Locomotives that past his home and watching Birds from a tree he had nailed railway …

Harry Hawker is credited with developing and perfecting the manoeuvre to correct an aircraft from a “Death Spin”, which had claimed many a pilots’ life in the early days of aviation. Pilots training manuals around the world subsequently adopted Harry’s procedure for correction.

Aug 3, 2013 · When War broke out in 1914, Harry’s skill as a test pilot was recognised and he tested 295 aircraft in 199 flying days prior to their delivery to squadrons. The 1916 Sopwith Camel, of which 5,497 were built, was largely a Harry Hawker design and it was fitted with the Kauper interrupter gear to allow machine guns to fire through the propeller ...