Sydney Camm and the Hurricane: Perspectives on the Master Fighter Designer and his finest Achievement
. Edited by Dr John W. Fozard, F.R.S. Airlife Publishing, Shrewsbury, 1992. Pp. 256, £25.00. ISBN 1-85310-2709 Dr Fozard has collected tributes to Sir Sydney Camm’s design leadership from 11 people. The book is excellently illustrated by many photographs, some of which are cheerfully informal. Photographs of aircraft on the ground and in flight give a history of the development of Hawker fighters, beginning with the biplane types and extending through the Hurricane and Hunter to today’s Harrier, In Dr Fozard’s introduction we see Sydney Camm at school at Windsor in 1902 wearing an Eton collar and the medal issued to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward VII. Sir Robert Lickley’s chapter begins with an illustration of the teenage Camm and several other boys with their model aircraft of pre World War I vintage. From then on, there was no doubt about the direction of his life’s work.
