Word: hawker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole war at 52 warplanes lost by Great Britain to 20 by Germany and boasted that Messerschmitts had overcome the French Morane-Saulnier fighters. Britain claimed that 125 Nazi warplanes of all types had been shot down, and had reason to believe that British Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes (capable of 335 m. p. h. and firing eight machine guns from their wings' leading edge) were up to anything Germany could trot...
...will get this part at home in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain.) They know that now when they come out full-fledged, they will be given the best ships to fly that money can buy. Especially in fighters, Britain is satisfied that she is the Nazis' match, her Hawker Hurricanes being nearly as fast and twice as manageable as Germany's celebrated Messerschmitts...
...Britain has two magnificent fighters, the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire. These planes are both called interceptors. Their talent is getting up 10,000 feet in 4.8 minutes-to stop bombers. The Spitfire can go over 350 m.p.h. and does its spitting from eight Browning guns. If defensive flying can succeed, these two models...
...that time the Loyalist air force consisted largely of a formidable collection of antiquated fighting planes - old Breguets, built in 1921, a Dewoitine, a Hawker Fury, a Gipsy Dragon - which Malraux had purchased for the Government. There was a twin-engined, high-wing Potez which carried a crew of five and in which Malraux flew as copilot. There was a modern, fast Boeing, useful only as a threat be cause the machine gun could not be synchronized to fire through the propeller. No match for Franco's air force, Malraux's fliers dodged behind clouds, avoided combat...
Johnny is let out by and by. His girl has married a Wartime malingerer who made a fortune from laxative water. Simple, defeated but undismayed, Johnny becomes a sidewalk hawker. "Toys," he cries. "Toys. Toys for good little girls and boys." He sings a melancholy little song about his faith in man's ultimate goodness, walks away up a long street...