Hawker Nimrod
Note: This is a subsection of Hawker Aircraft.
Type
- Naval Fighter
Manufacturers
Number produced
- 92
Engines
- 1 x Rolls-Royce Engines: Kestrel VFP inline piston engine, 525 hp (391 kW).
The Hawker Nimrod was a British carrier-based single engine, single seat biplane fighter aircraft built in the early 1930s by Hawker Aircraft.
he Nimrod had an overall similarity to the Fury: it was a single-seater biplane with an open cockpit, fixed undercarriage and guns firing through the propeller. Its unswept, constant chord, round tipped wings had unequal span and strong stagger, the latter partly to enhance the pilot's view. It was a single bay biplane braced with outward leaning N-form interplane struts, the upper plane held a little above the upper fuselage by cabane struts. The fabric covered wings had metal spars and spruce ribs and carried balanced ailerons only on the upper wings.
Variants
Nimrod I
- FAA: 477 hp (356 kW) Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIMS piston engine; 57 built.
Nimrod II
- FAA: modified swept wing version, powered by a 608 hp (453 kW) Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIS or VFp piston engine; 30 built.
Danish Nimrod
- Hawker built pattern aircraft, powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIIS piston engine; two built and exported to Denmark.
Nimrodderne
- Single-seat fighter aircraft for the Royal Danish Navy; ten built under licence in Denmark.
AXH1
- A single Hawker Nimrod I supplied to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for evaluation in 1934.