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Appointed Hawker Aircraft Company’s chief designer in 1925, Camm was responsible for the design of the wartime Hurricane, Typhoon, and Tempest aircraft and the post-war Hunter and P.1127 aircraft. The latter was the progenitor of the Harrier, the world’s first vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. At the end of his career he was planning a plane to travel at Mach 4. The RAeS, of which he was president in 1954–5, has since 1971 held the biennial Sir Sydney Camm Lecture.