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Campaign to honour Hawker Hurricane designer Sir Sydney Camm

As the designer of such legendary aircraft as the Hawker Hurricane and Hawker Harrier, Sir Sydney Camm has been described as the Isambard Kingdom Brunel of aeronautical engineering.

Yet his vital contribution to victory in the Second World War, and his leading role in post-war defence, has remained largely unrecognised by the British public.

More than 40 years after his death, a fundraising appeal has been launched to educate future generations about his towering achievements by installing a full-sized replica of a Hurricane in his home town of Windsor and setting up a scholarship fund in his name.