Hurricanes ...

[Mark Allen M]

Per request, source, SDAM archives, IWM archives, USAF archives
Very little information on these images so Hurricane experts welcomed.


Hurricane MkI N2359 No 17 Sqdn RAF




Hawker Hurricane MKII 1941




Hawker Hurricane MKIIA September 1941 Kano Nigeria












Hawker Hurricane MKIV Yugoslavian Air Force


Hawker Hurricane mkII


Hawker Hurricane mkII Malta


Hawker Hurricane mkII


Hawker Hurricane mkII Turkish Air Force




Hawker Hurricane mkII


Six Fleet Air Arm Hawker Sea Hurricanes operating from Yeovilton flying in formation Dec 9 1941

[Mark Allen M]

Hawker Hurricane mkiv Yugoslavian Air Force


Hawker Hurricane MkIIB Soviet Air Force 1941


Sea Hurricane MkIIB No 759 Sqdn
















Hawker Hurricane MkI No 85 Squadron being inspected by King George IV in France 1939

[The Inspector]

Lovin' that Russian 2 seat roadster!! Including me, I'll bet a lot of modellers will put that one in Favorites

[DH82EH]

That two seater is cool!
Wouldn't you love to see a Merlin swingin' that big fixed pitch, two blader?
I guess the closest we'll get to that is a Kestrel powered Fury. Never say never I guess
I also wonder why hurricanes didn't come in 70 different Mk #s like it's more popular mate?
Wasn't Adolf Galland quoted as saying "Nice airplane to shoot down"?

Andy Scott

[SaxMan]

What? No pics of the Mark IID with the 40mm guns? That's always been one of my favorite Hurricanes.

I always thought the Hurricane's role the the Battle of Britain has been underrated...kind of a wallflower to it's more glamorous stable mate.

As far as why it didn't have the same number of "Marks" as the Spitfire, its airframe was not nearly as adaptable to modification as the Spit. The Hurricane was a "halfway house" between the wood and fabric biplanes and the monocoque construction of modern aircraft. Once you got to the Mark IIs, there really wasn't much more that could be done (The Mark IV was a tropcalized version of the Mark II, IIRC). The follow on was the Typhoon, and you can definitely see the Hurricane's influence on its design.

The Spitfire was really amazing. By the time you got to the Mark XXIV, the plane had completely transformed itself from the Mark I, but was still undoubtedly recognizable as a Spitfire. Mitchell was truly a genius. One can only wonder what else he would have developed had he not died relatively young. His prototype bomber which was destroyed in a bombing raid during the Battle of Britain would have been absolutely comparable and competitive with the Lancasters

[seagull61785]

Here ya go Saxman - One from my collection....



Cheers

Barry

[seagull61785]

No photo collection of the Hurricane would be complete without this one either .....



As someone else likes to describe it - a Hurricane with confidence issues....

Barry

[Mark Allen M]

Hurricane MkIID BP188 6 Sqdn summer 1942


Hurricane MkIID HW719 of the No 1 Specialized Low Attack Instructors School

[SaxMan]

Thank you!

Hurricane JV-Z BP188 was one of the models you could make with the Monogram 1/48 scale Hurricane Kit. I built the Mark IV version, can't remember the RAF serial off hand.

You can really see the Hurricane's lineage to the Fury in the "biplane Hurricane" pictures. On first glance, I thought it was a Fury.

[Firebird]

Per request, source, SDAM archives, IWM archives, USAF archives
Very little information on these images so Hurricane experts welcomed.

LF363 taken post war, most likely late 1940's when AVM Sir Stanley Vincent was instrumental in keeping it airworthy for the annual Battle of Britain flypast over London, as at the time it was the last remaining airworthy Hurricane in the RAF. It effectively became the founder member aircraft of what became the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, and still flies with the flight today, some 60+ years later.

I think this maybe MkIIC, PZ865, 'The Last of The Many' during the air to air photo sortie to mark the building of this, the final Hurricane made in July 1944 (which of course also still flies today with the RAF BBMF)