The Hawker Danecock
biplane
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was developed from the
Hawker Woodcock
The Hawker Woodcock was a British single-seat fighter built by the Hawker Engineering Company as the first fighter to be produced by Hawker Engineering (the successor to Sopwith Aviation). It was used by the RAF as a night fighter in the 1920 ...
for the
Danish
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air force and naval service.
Design and development
In 1925 the Danish Government notified Hawker that they would order three aircraft similar to the Woodcock, but with certain improvements. This resulted in
Sydney Camm
Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAeS (5 August 189312 March 1966) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many Hawker aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters. One particularly notable aircraft he designed was th ...
making minor changes to the wings and cockpit area. Compared to the Woodcock II, the Danecock had unequal span wings, a slightly lengthened fuselage, a 385 hp (287 kW)
Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar
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IV engine and an armament of two
Madsen machine gun
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s. The first aircraft was flown on 18 December 1925 by
George Bulman with all three aircraft delivered in February 1926.
Operational history
After receiving the Hawker-built aircraft,
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obtained a licence to produce more Danecocks. This version, named the Dankok, was built in 1927 at the Danish Royal Naval Dockyard (''Orlogsvaerftet'') as the Orlogsvaerftet L.B.II.
A total of 12 more were manufactured. One aircraft (a Hawker-build) broke the Scandinavian
altitude record, reaching 28,208 ft (8,598 m). The Danecock/Dankok served until the mid-1930s when they were replaced by
Hawker Nimrod
The Hawker Nimrod is a British carrier-based single-engine, single-seat biplane fighter aircraft built in the early 1930s by Hawker Aircraft.
Design and development
In 1926 the Air Ministry specification N.21/26 was intended to produce a suc ...
s. An example of the Dankok still exists in the
Copenhagen
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Museum.
Operators
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Danish Army Air Service (''Hærens Flyvertropper'')
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Danish Naval Air Service (''Marinens Flyvevæsen'')
Specifications
See also
References
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