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Old 1 January 2001, 05:25 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Wolfgang,

>Any relation between Lanoe Hawker

No though one half of Lanoe Hawkers family were Australian, and if Cutlack was to be believed, Lanoe considered himself Australian. Killratio will have opinions on that though

>Also does the Hawker aircraft name as in the
>WW2 Hurricane originate from one of
>these gentlemen?

Harry Hawker was the Chief test pilot for Sopwith, when Sopwith went under after WWI, Hawker started Hawker Engineering which was to be the company nearly 15 years later that produced the Hurricane. Hawker didnt see it though.


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