The Windsor man who helped win the Second World War

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BBC Radio Berkshire's Sarah Walker heard the story of Sydney Camm, the Windsor born aircraft designer who helped win the Second World War courtesy of his best known creation - the Hawker Hurricane. Les Phipps, Retired Air Marshall: "He was arguably one of the world's best aircraft designers. "At the age of 15 he left school and became an apprentice carpenter. At the same time he made model airplanes, and some of his customers were the boys at Eton college. "He had an outlook for the future all of the time, which I think is what made his designs so good. "The Hurricane was built in 1935 - it was built more easily, and it was repaired more easily too."