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UK |
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Type: Fighter |
| Manufacturer:
Hawker |
| Service:
1937 - 1945 |
| First
Flight: 6 November 1935 |
| Production:
14000 |
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The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. Some production of the Hurricane was carried out in Canada by the Canada Car and Foundry Co Ltd.
The 1930s design evolved through several versions and adaptations, resulting in a series of aircraft which acted as interceptor-fighters, fighter-bombers (also called "Hurribombers"), and ground support aircraft. Further versions known as the Sea Hurricane had modifications which enabled operation from ships. Some were converted as catapult-launched convoy escorts, known as "Hurricats". Together with the Spitfire, the Hurricane was significant in enabling the Royal Air Force (RAF) to win the Battle of Britain of 1940, accounting for the majority of the RAF's air victories. About 14,000 Hurricanes were built by the end of 1944 (including about 1,200 converted to Sea Hurricanes, and about 1,400 built in Canada), and served in all the major theatres of the Second World War.
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| TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS ( Hurricane IIC) |
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General characteristics
- Crew: One
- Length: 32 ft 3 in (9.84 m)
- Wingspan: 40 ft 0 in (12.19 m)
- Height: 13 ft 1½ in (4.0 m)
- Wing area: 257.5 ft (23.92 m)
- Empty weight: 5,745 lb (2,605 kg)
- Loaded weight: 7,670 lb (3,480 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 8,710 lb (3,950 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 x Rolls-Royce Merlin XX liquid-cooled V-12, 1,185 hp at 21,000 ft (883 kW at 6,400 m)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 340 mph (547 km/h) at 21,000 ft (6,400 m) (320 mph (514 km/h) at 19,700 ft (6,004 m) with two 250 lb bombs)
- Range: 600 mi (965 km)
- Service ceiling 36,000 ft (10,970 m)
- Rate of climb: 2,780 ft/min (14.1 m/s)
- Wing loading: 29.8 lb/ft (121.9 kg/m)
- Power/mass: 6.47 lb/hp (3.94 kg/kW)
Armament
- Guns:
- IIa: 8 x 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns
- IIb: 12 x 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns
- IIc: 4 x 20 mm Hispano Mk II cannon
- IId: 2 x 40 mm Vickers Type S cannon, 2 x 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns
- Bombs (Mk. IIb and later models):
- 2 x 250 lb or 500 lb bombs
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