Aviation Career
He started as a carpenter's apprentice and joined the Martinsyde aircraft company.
Camm joined the Hawker Aircraft Company (later Hawker Siddeley) at Kingston upon Thames as a senior draughtsman in 1923, becoming Chief Designer in 1925. He took part in the design of many Hawker aircraft, including the Tomtit, Cygnet (his first Hawker plane), Hornbill, Nimrod, Hart and Fury. He then moved to designing aeroplanes that would become mainstays of the RAF in the Second World War including the Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest.
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