Harry George Hawker, MBE, AFC (22 January 1889 – 12 July 1921) [1] was an Australian aviation pioneer. He was the chief test pilot for Sopwith and was also involved in the design of many of their aircraft.

Harry George Hawker was born on 22nd January 1889, in a small brick-built house up a narrow dirt track at South Brighton (now Moorabbin), on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. He was the second son of blacksmith George Hawker, the son of an immigrant worker from Devon, England.

Captain Harry Hawker is an Allied sniper/commando and a main story, cooperative and multiplayer character in Sniper Elite III: Afrika, Sniper Elite 4: Italy , Sniper Elite 5: France. and Sniper Elite: Resistance. He is seen as the secondary main character and is often used in Co-op.

Harry George Hawker (1889-1921), aviator, was born on 22 January 1889 at South Brighton, Melbourne, son of George Hawker, blacksmith, and his wife Mary Ann, née Anderson, both Victorian-born. He attended schools to the age of 12 at …

Jan 30, 2025 · Who is Harry Hawker’s Voice Actor in Sniper Elite Resistance? Harry Hawker, the man who sniped. Image by Insider Gaming. The available information tells us it’s likely Klemens Koehring reprising his role as Harry Hawker for Sniper Elite Resistance.

Harry Hawker was one of the worlds pioneering aviators. In 1913 he set an endurance record of 8 hours and 20 minutes, set a new height record of 11,700 feet and then later an air speed record of 92 miles per hour. Hawker also supposedly solved the problem of the spin.

Harry George Hawker. An Australian pioneer aviator, Aircraft Designer, Engineer and Test Pilot, was born in Moorabbin on 22 January 1889. Harry became one of the world's greatest aviators.

May 17, 2019 · It’s exactly 100 years since an Australian aviation pioneer almost achieved the everlasting fame of a world first. Instead, he and his navigator responded coolly and calmly to an inflight emergency and lived to fly another day. The pilot’s name was Harry Hawker.

Hawker climbed into the Tractor Biplane (another of Sopwith’s products) and the aircraft rose into the calm wind of the day and circled above the heads of the crowd. When it finally landed there alighted the new solo height champion, Harry Hawker, with 11,451 feet to his credit.

Harry George Hawker was born on 22nd January, 1889, in Moorabbin, a small town on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. Harry was the second youngest in a family of two boys and two girls. His father, George Hawker was an accomplished engineer blacksmith and wheelwright, who ran an engineering business in Moorabbin.