Hawker Danecock

The Hawker Danecock was a biplane fighter developed from the Hawker Woodcock for the Danish Army Air Service and Naval Air Service. In 1925 the Danish government told Hawker it would order three aircraft like the Woodcock with some improvements, and Sydney Camm gave them unequal-span wings, a slightly longer fuselage, a 385 hp Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar IV engine and two 8 mm Madsen machine guns. George Bulman flew the first on 18 December 1925, and all three were delivered by February 1926. Denmark then took a licence, and twelve more, called the Dankok or Orlogsvaerftet L.B.II, were built at the Danish Royal Naval Dockyard in 1927. One Hawker-built aircraft set a Scandinavian altitude record of 28,208 ft. The type served until the mid-1930s, when Hawker Nimrods replaced it, and a Dankok survives in the Danish Aircraft Museum.