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This may shock the unwary and the sensitive.

ndicki

ndicki

Charter Member 2016
As it says, this may shock you. It has rag wings, the Watts two-blade airscrew, and... a Vokes filter. That is a combination which any Hurricane buff will tell you the RAF never used. And they'd be absolutely right. The RAF didn't. The SAAF did.

This is one of the 4 Mk I Hurricanes used by No.1 Squadron South African Air Force, based in Kenya in June 1940 to attack the Italians in Italian East Africa.

Clive 'Pat Pattle' did all the hard work in GMAX - it even has a modified cockpit with no pitch-control lever.

Uploading soon!





 
That's a real hum-dinger! ...a piece of resistance! :encouragement:
Looks like Clive went back to the original model from Monsieur Didier.
The prop looks cool!
 
Yes it's Patrick's venerable original model. :)

In that original photo, is that an Auster flying in the background? That would place it mid-war which can't be right, must be something else, a Piper Cub perhaps?
 
Y'know for a spinning prop disc, a 4 blade would be appropriate...
What about sumpin from the mk IX or(?) :mixed-smiley-027:
 
And that blasted door has gone too, so you can fly in the African skies with the window open. Uploading now.
 

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Very cool Nigel, certainly an unusual subject! Is it just me or does that prop look a bit funny? Seems differently shaped from the other version, and from the photos I've seen. Or did the SAAF have a different prop fitted?
 
Yea, I wuz gonna mention the Brisfit prop... It always seems ruddy backasswards to me!!
HEY! Clive and Nigel, thanks so much for a Hurricane with so many issues sorted! :ernaehrung004:
I love your prop shape, Clive... (bl**dy hell that sounds a bit chummy, don't it? :banghead:)
Anyways, thanx guys...
 
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