Next Hurricane Mk.I

[gecko]

Great! I love the research and detail you put into them - patches, finishes, wrong color paint at certain factories - fantastic! Do you have any Belgians in the line-up?

 

[gecko]

Oh by the way, in your research, what would you say was the predominant variant of the Hurricane in the BoF? I've seen rag wings with the two-bladed fixed pitch and with three bladed props. (were those the two speed or the constant speed?) When did the metal skinned wings start to arrive?

 

[ndicki]

Really the only type for BOB was the metal-winged version, including many earlier rag-wing ones which had been refitted. The metal wing was introduced in April 1939, although few were actually available until a year later. Equally, the fixed-pitch Watts propellor was phased out well before the BOB started, so it's De Havilland variable-pitch props with rounded spinners, although some aircraft did have pointed spinners. The slightly longer constant-speed Rotol spinner came in late 1940/early 1941 really, so that's out for the real battle. Propellors were replaced before wings, so a rag-wing with a three-blade variable pitch prop is common enough until May 1940 but no later, but no metal-wing Hurricane ever had a two-blade prop. Hope that helps!

 

[ndicki]

Great! I love the research and detail you put into them - patches, finishes, wrong color paint at certain factories - fantastic! Do you have any Belgians in the line-up?

Haven't really got around to them yet, but you never know...

 

[ndicki]

Bored?... not bl**dy likely as Hurries have always been me favorites.
...and thanx for doing a 'nut-job' 85 squadron a/c. Somehow I feel a certain kinship there!
ps: Do you know their stats whilst posted in France... skirmishes, which airfield(s), when
and why they split back to jolly old, who their fearless squadron leader wuz and anything
else you may think of... Oh, maybe a link?
Thanks in advance and cheers

Could start here:

http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/85_squadron.html

 

[ndicki]

F/O Edgar "Cobber" Kain's next. Before he was killed in an accident shortly after taking off from Echemines airfield in another Hurricane on 7th June 1940, he had used this one among others to run up a score of 16 kills and 1 damaged in the course of the Phoney War and Battle of France. All four Hurricanes he used carried the letter P for Paddy, named after his fitter.

 

[Pat Pattle]

Nice one Nigel! Really like the BoF stuff. :0)

 

[gecko]

Very nice. We've got some great variety for this model now, thanks Nigel! These need a proper fixed pitch prop FM. By default CFS3 doesn't handle the fixed pitch option in the CFG correctly. But there are ways...added to my list.

 

[MajorMagee]

F/O Edgar "Cobber" Kain's next. Before he was killed in an accident shortly after taking off from Echemines airfield in another Hurricane on 7th June 1940, he had used this one among others to run up a score of 16 kills and 1 damaged in the course of the Phoney War and Battle of France. All four Hurricanes he used carried the letter P for Paddy, named after his fitter.

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