Who was Sir Sydney Camm?

Sir Sydney Camm CBE FRAeS (1893-1966) was undoubtedly the UK’s most prolific and successful aircraft designer, with over 50 aircraft types to his name.

Is Sir Sidney Camm’s former home set for a new lease-on-life?

Nine empty Victorian houses in Windsor – including the former home of aviation inventor and designer Sir Sidney Camm – are set for a new lease of life, thanks to a Royal Borough partnership initiative with Airways Housing Group.

Will there be a statue of Sir Sydney Camm at Alexandra Gardens?

The following posts cover the refurbishment of the terrace of houses where Sir Sydney Camm lived as a boy, two memorial plaques and, in posts dated May 2006 and later, the plans to commemorate Sir Sydney with a full size memorial in the form of a replica Hurricane, possibly in Alexandra Gardens, just a few hundred yards from his family home.

Did Sydney Camm shoot down 80% of Luftwaffe?

Sir Sydney Camm’s peerless Hawker Hurricane shot down up to 80 per cent of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. The aeronautical engineer was considered so dangerous to Nazi Germany that Hitler reputedly wanted him killed and ordered his bombers to try to flatten his home, called Carradale, in south-west London.