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Hurricane
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Photo: Robert Deering 10/23/2006
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Dulles International Airport (IAD)
Chantilly, Virginia |
Photo:
Robert Deering 10/18/2012
National Museum of
the USAF Wright-Patterson AFB (FFO)
Dayton, Ohio |
Photo: Robert Deering 10/23/2006
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Dulles International Airport (IAD)
Chantilly, Virginia |
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Hawker Chief Designer Sydney
Camm's Hurricane ranks with the most important aircraft
designs in military aviation history. Designed in the
late 1930s, when monoplanes were considered unstable and
too radical to be successful, the Hurricane was the
first British monoplane fighter and the first British
fighter to exceed 483 kilometers (300 miles) per hour in
level flight. Hurricane pilots fought the Luftwaffe and
helped win the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940.
Materials:
Fuselage: Steel tube with
aircraft spruce forms and fabric, aluminum cowling
Wings: Stressed Skin Aluminum Horizontal Stablizer:
Stress Skin aluminum Rudder: fabric covered aluminum
Control Surfaces: fabric covered aluminum
Physical Description:
Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC
single seat, low wing monoplane ground attack fighter;
enclosed cockpit; steel tube fuselage with aircraft
spruce forms and fabric, aluminum cowling, stressed skin
aluminum wings and horizontal stablizer, fabric covered
aluminum rudder and control surfaces; grey green
camoflage top surface paint scheme with dove grey
underside; red and blue national roundel on upper wing
surface and red, white, and blue roundel lower wing
surface; red, white, blue, and yellow roundel fuselage
sides; red, white and blue tail flash; Rolls-Royce
Merlin XX, liquid cooled V-12, 1,280 horsepower engine;
Armament, 4: 20mm Hispano cannons. |
SPECIFICATIONS:
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PERFORMANCE: |
Span:
12.2 m (40 ft) |
Maximum speed:
538 km/h (334 mph) |
Length:
9.8
m (32 ft 3 in) |
Cruising speed:
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Height:
4
m (13 ft) |
Range:
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Empty Weight:
2,624 kg (5,785 lb) |
Service ceiling:
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Gross Weight:
3,951 kg (8,710 lb) |
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Crew:
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Engines:
Rolls-Royce Merlin XX,
liquid-cooled in-line V, 1,300 hp |
Armament:
Four 20 mm
Hispano cannons, plus
two 250-lb or two 500-lb bombs
or eight 3-in rockets |
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SOURCE:
Smithsonian Air & Space Museum |
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