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Sea Hurricane Mk.IIC 60 built by Hawker between November 1942 and May 1943, version equipped with naval radio gear; other standard Mk.IICs were converted and used on fleet carriers. The Merlin XX engine on the Sea Hurricane generated 1,460 hp (1,090 kW) at 6,250 ft (1,900 m) and 1,435 hp (1,070 kW) at 11,000 ft (3,400 m).
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Hawker Sea Hurricane Mk.Ib (Z7015) arrives at the 2016 RIAT. The Sea Hurricane Mk IA was a Hurricane Mk I modified by Hawker or General Aircraft Limited. They were modified to be carried by CAM ships (catapult-armed merchantman). These were cargo ships equipped with a catapult for launching a single aircraft, but without facilities to recover them.
During the Munich Crisis of 1938, the Royal Air Force implemented plans to camouflage its aircraft in its disruptively patterned Temperate Land Scheme of "Dark Earth" and "Dark Green" above and "Sky" (similar to a duck egg blue) below. This scheme was known colloquially as "Sand and Spinach" when the pattern was painted on at the factory, large ...
A contemporary of the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane, it was the first single-seat, twin-engined, cannon-armed fighter of the Royal Air Force. When it first flew in 1938, the Whirlwind was one of the fastest combat aircraft in the world and, with four 20 mm Hispano-Suiza HS.404 autocannon in its nose, the most heavily armed.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 12:53, 5 February 2013: 800 × 612 (55 KB): Fæ {{Information |description = {{en|''Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945- Hawker Hurricane.''<br/> Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC, BD867 'QO-Y' of No 3 Squadron RAF based at Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, in flight.}} |author = Daventry B J (Mr), Royal Air For...
Pictured are two aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) in the skies above Lincolnshire.Left is Hurricane LF363, painted to represent 249 Squadron Battle of Britain Hurricane‘GN-F’ on its port side.GN-F was the aircraft flown during the Battle of Britain by fighter ace Wing Commander Tom Neil DFC and Bar AFC AE LdH.'SD-A ...
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