Hawker Dantorp

The Hawker Dantorp H.B. III was a single-engined biplane bomber ordered by the Danish Navy in 1930 and built by Hawker in Britain. It was derived from the Hawker Horsley, but used a radial engine, the 14-cylinder Armstrong Siddeley Leopard, then the most powerful radial in the world, and carried a third crew member between the pilot and the observer and gunner. It was a two-bay biplane of wood and metal construction that could fly on a wheeled undercarriage or on floats, and it could carry bombs or a torpedo. Two examples were built as a precursor to licensed production in Denmark, but financial constraints stopped that. The first flew on 19 September 1932, torpedo launching gave good results only by 1935, and the pair served until the German invasion of Denmark in 1940.