stephen bennett
Mr Enigma
It was over Norwich today. I could hear the unmistakable sound of the engine.
Stephen
Stephen
My 98(?) year old and still very much alive uncle flew various versions of the Hawker Hurricane in WW2 but was too young to be in the Battle of Britain. Apparently, what pissed him and fellow Hurricane pilots off was the number of kills denied to them because captured German pilots were reluctant to admit to having been bagged by a Hurricane if they could claim it was a Spitfire. I'm not sure if this is true!.........................
Hurricane - FAR more important than the Spitfire in WW2.
I don't know what Vinny had in mind, but there were more Hurricanes than Spitfires in service in WW2, including more ground attack versions, and they accounted for more kills, in the air and on the ground, so you could argue that they were more important military assets than Spitfires, even though they were slower and generally regarded as obsolete by the end of the war.The Hurricane. Please expand on what you've said, especially how you judge 'importance'.
I was surprised when I saw a Hurricane for the first time in Duxford. It looks so light and fragile!
If I remember correctly the Fairey Swordfish was a well regarded and effective machine dispite appearances. Ceased production around the same time as the Hurricane too I believeHurricane engine? Where would that have been without the Hurricane? Where would that have left Spitfire development?
History is constantly being re-written, but I have been told through TV and radio (non-fiction), innumerable times over the years, that the Hurricane was a bigger and more significant contributor to WW2 than the Spitfire. Arguably, it was less important in the Battle of Britain than in WW2 in total, if for no other reason than it was easy to get Hurricane "kits" all over the world, to places where it was far more difficult to get a Spitfire to.
Over 20,000 Spitfires were built in numerous variants, and it was in service, somewhere, until the 1960's. The last Hurricane left service 20 years previously.
As ever, treat with caution, but the Wiki page for the Hurricane is quite eye-opening as it explains the several significant advantages of the Hurricane, and the few disadvantages, compared to the Spitfire,
Hurricane - FAR more important than the Spitfire in WW2.
The Hurricane. Please expand on what you've said, especially how you judge 'importance'.
Or more accurately only one pass, when you know the distances involved. Notty toNewark, 15 miles, 6 minutes.Judging by the above timings the Spitfire won't have long to do more than a few passes.
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The Spitfire sounds awesome, and then there is the Mosquito!