Jetrader - March/April 2009 - (Page 29)

Shown here, the 43 Squadron Royal Air Force Hawker Fury and crew. Camm’s ﬁrst proposal to F.36/34 (later changed to F.5/34), was rejected as being too orthodox by the Ministry’s review committee, so he ignored it and decided to design a ﬁghter as a private venture. To save money and time, he employed many of the jigs and tooling from the Fury days, as well as structural methods. This prototype was to be the Hurricane, which was the RAF’s main stay in the battle for air supremacy over Southern England in the summer of 1940. Its ﬂight trials with the new Rolls-Royce PV-12 Merlin engine and mandated eight machine guns were so impressive the Air Ministry placed an order for 600 of the newly designed aircraft. INTERNATIONAL Aviation Services PROTECTING YOUR AIRCRAFT’S VALUE Around the World Around the Clock Breaking New Ground Unlike the stressed metal monocoque fuselage of the Spitﬁre, the fuselage was a space frame of high-tensile steel tubes with wood formers and stringers to give it its humpback distinctive shape, so that the pilot had a good all around view. Aft of the cockpit, linen fabric covered the structure, and from the cockpit box forward, sheet duralumin replaced the fabric. Initially the wings were also fabric-covered, though this was changed to metal after initial deliveries to RAF squadrons in December 1937. By having the landing gear retract inwards, its wide spacing allowed very forgiving landings on the bumpy grass ﬁelds of those days. This was in sharp contrast to the narrow outward retracting gear of the Spitﬁre and the fuselage hinged gear of the Messerchmitt, which lost ﬁve percent of its number in landing accidents according to Luftwaffe records. Each wing had its four, British re-designed .303 ColtBrowning machine guns grouped close together just outside of the propeller disc; this made for a stable ﬁring platform in a ﬁghter that had excellent ﬂying qualities. September 1940 saw the introduction of the Hurricane IIA with the more powerful two stage supercharged Merlin XX, which improved its high altitude performance, and shortly afterwards, the IIB was delivered with 12 Browning guns. Its damage tolerance was legendary, as 20 mm thin-wall cannon shells would pass through the wood and fabric without exploding, and damaged Aviation Consulting Asset and Lease Management Technical Services Main Ofﬁce Memphis, TN USA +1 (901) 405-1353 www.TheLongbowGroup.com Jetrader 29 http://www.TheLongbowGroup.com

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