Air Stories, April 1936 — page 54: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE FIRST sing!e-seater fighter capable of more than 300 m.p.h., carrying a fill war load, this all-metal Hawker monoplane is one of the latest types of warplanes to be de- signed for R.A.F. use. Specially noteworthy feaq ; tures are the transparent, s‘iding cockpit-cover, the re- tractable undercarriage, the wing flaps (to reduce landing speed) and the variable-pitch propeller, — The engine is a new-~type liquid-cooled Rolls-Royce Merlin, the exact power of which is an oficial secr:te Rx NS Yi See — Sy => (C(O) JOO S (CO)