“The nation is the poorer for the loss of one who always displayed such splendid courage and determination. To such pioneers we owed our supremacy of the air during the war.”—Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George.
“No man has done more to further the march of modern practical science than has Mr. Harry Hawker. A man of deeds and few words, his name will go down in the annals of history as a pioneer airman and motorist. The development of the aeroplane as an arm of warfare owes much to his skill and bravery—skill that was not only shown in his handling of experimental machines in the air, but also in the way he applied his remarkable fund of practical technical knowledge to eliminating faults and improving existing designs. His war record as test pilot of Sopwith machines is unmatched.... Mr. Harry G. Hawker, A.F.C., will ever be remembered as one to whom the word fear was absolutely unknown.”
“Harry Hawker was stamped with genuineness. He was a simple, clean, straight-souled man. He was bred and born to do things. He did them; he did them thoroughly, deep-bitten. He made and left his mark. But in all that he did he worked so simply, so single-mindedly, that in his passing the world of actualities loses not merely a fine airman and a cunning handler of motor-cars.”
“The world of aviation has lost a champion; his wife, near relatives and friends have lost something which is quite irreparable, but in our sorrow let us be comforted by the thought that Harry Hawker died as he had lived, doing the work he loved.”
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