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There's a growing collection of warbirds at the small airport in the farming town of Chatham, Ontario, (my birthplace).
The local museum here in Virginia has a Hurricane MKXII that was built at the Canadian
Car & Foundry (CCF) plant in Fort William (Thunder Bay), Ontario in 1943. They only built 1,451, total. This one is in beautiful shape and flies.
Something to be proud of.
Bob
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I've seen the Hurricane at Hendon and a few other places. I'm reminded of a time when I worked for the TSA at PDX around 2003 and an older gentleman came through wearing a ball cap that suggested he was a WWII fighter pilot. I asked him was he a WWII pilot. He assured me he was. I asked him what he flew and he replied "a bunch." I asked him what his favorite fighter plane was. He said "The Hurricane as jerry could shoot it full of holes and unless hitting something really important it would bring you home."
Good observation in my mind.
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eb in oregon
jerry could shoot it full of holes and unless hitting something really important it would bring you home."
Yes because the skin wasn't a structural part of the aircraft, unlike the Spitfire.
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Flying10uk
Yes because the skin wasn't a structural part of the aircraft, unlike the Spitfire.
Unlike the majority of WWII aircraft. There were very few with cloth skin, the Hurricane and Swordfish being two of the best.
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eb in oregon
Unlike the majority of WWII aircraft. There were very few with cloth skin, the Hurricane and Swordfish being two of the best.
And the Vickers Wellington bomber as well:
Early on, Vickers' chief structures designer Barnes Wallis proposed the use of a geodetic airframe, inspired by his previous work on airships and the single-engined Wellesley light bomber. During structural testing performed at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, the proposed structure demonstrated not only the required strength factor of six, but reached 11 without any sign of failure, proving the geodetic airframe to possess a strength far in excess of normal levels.
Vickers Wellington - Wikipedia
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True, but a medium bomber that flew mostly at night when things really got rolling. Not much available for defense in the night time let alone the day. Regardless all fine and serviceable aircraft. And there is something to be said about having a skin covering that merely passes bullets. Unless hitting "something really important."
I remember a friend that told me helicopter mechanics in Vietnam (and he was there as a Pathfinder) used duct tape to patch "unimportant holes" and that they "flapped a bit" during missions. Duct tape or a riveted patch? What ever does the job.
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