Hawker Hurricane
The Hurricane
“The fighter that actually won the Battle of Britain.”
Hawker · military
The Spitfire got the glory, but Hurricanes shot down more enemy aircraft in the Battle of Britain than every other British defence combined. It was slower and older than the Spitfire, built with a steel tube frame and fabric covering, and that made it easy to repair and a steady gun platform. Over 14,000 were built in Britain and Canada. A dozen fly today, several in the hands of the same collections that keep Spitfires in the air.
The Hurricane's rear fuselage was covered in doped fabric, which meant cannon shells could pass straight through it without exploding.
A thick wing, a humped back behind the cockpit, and a tailwheel. If it looks like a Spitfire but chunkier, with a straight-edged wing instead of the ellipse, it is a Hurricane.
One might be overhead right now.
Bogey turns the The Hurricane from a dot in the sky into a card in your logbook.
