Video footage of Hawker Hurricanes around the world

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Originally flown on November 6, 1935, the Hurricane entered service in December 1937 with Number 111 Squadron. By the outbreak of war the predominantly fabric covered eight-gun Mark I was numerically Fighter Command's most important fighter. It had served in France and Norway in 1940, as well as being sent to the Mediterranean when Italy entered the war in June of that year. It played the leading part in the RAF's defenses during the Battle of Britain, also equipping new Canadian, Polish and Czech squadrons coming into service.

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Construction of the Hawker Hurricane. Watch at time 2:14 min there's a person in a suit looks like Mr Blobby.

 

 

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Fighting Greeks.

The 335th RHAF Squadron with callsign "Tiger", was formed on October 10th 1941 at Aqir, Palestine, under the RAF command, named as 335th Hellenic Squadron FG - Fighting Greeks.

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24th February 2018 airshow down under

The first airshow for the newly finished Col Pay Hawker Hurricane. Serial No 5481 C/N 60372, C-FDNL, Mk XII / IIB based at the Pays Air Service at Scone.The Hurricane is now registered as VH-JFW, is finished in the color scheme of Pilot Officer John Dallas Crossman, an Australian who flew with No 32 Squadron and No 46 Squadron and was killed on the 30th of September 1940 at 13:30 hrs. He was shot down in his Hurricane I (V6748) at Forest Row, Sussex UK by a Messerschmitt Bf 109E. Crossman was buried at Chalfont St. Giles Churchyard, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, Grave 13.

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This Hawker Hurricane llA Z2389 served with the American Eagle squadron in 1941, then shipped to Russia as a lend lease when it flew with the Red Air Force. Was shot down over Murmansk in 1942. 50 years later it was found by Russian historians who sold it to Brooklands using money from a lottery fund grant, it arrived at Brooklands in 1997. Restoration started in 1999 and hopefully moving to taxi runs later this year dated as 2011.

 

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Hawker Hurricane 1940, Mk. I. HC-452. Jämi Fly In 2012.

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Quite a few different decorations and finishes for the PSSA mass biild group to choose from.

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Selected newsreels from 1940 and 1941 related to the air defense of Britain.

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Kent Uk

The Battle of Britain Mermorial Flight Hurricane and Spitfire displaying at the battle of Britain Airshow at headcorn Aerodrome in Kent 2017.

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Hurricane fighters are being constructed in Canada.

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Canada

Very enjoyable, it was great to see a number of stills from Can-Car which I've never come across before.

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Elise MacGill : The Queen of the Hurricanes - featuring the author Crystal Sissions.

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Canada

West coast defence

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Hurricane 5389 History

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The Hillson FH.40 Slip Wing Hawker Hurricane

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The Hillson FH.40 Slip Wing Hawker Hurricane

Despite the less than spectacular results of flight and jettison tests, there was just enough promise left in the project for the Air Ministry to grant Hillson the use of a somewhat clapped out former Royal Canadian Air Force Hawker Hurricane I to test the concept out further on a full-sized aircraft before committing to further design. The result was the Hillson FH.40, a Hawker Hurricane with a massive and identical second wing propped on slender N-struts high above the fuselage. I was not able to find any report that suggested that the biplane Hurricane ever attempted to jettison its wing, but it seems the project had changed to more of a study of how an extra wing might benefit a Hurricane for ferry flights and getting off the ground with heavier loads than as a possible slip-wing defensive fighter.

The strange aircraft was tested at RAF Sealand during May 1943, and at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at RAF Boscombe Down from September 1943. The upper wing was not released in flight before the program was terminated due to poor performance.

On 15 September 1943, Hurricane 321 was ferried to the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at RAF Boscombe Down for further trials with the Performance Testing Squadron.

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The Hangar 11 Collection Hawker Hurricane IIB at the Shuttleworth Military Pageant 2011

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The history of the Hurricane and the countries it was made and operated in is vast and extensive, I'm only scratching the surface.

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Its been hard finding information about the CAM ships when 'Hurricats' were launched from the front of a ship on a 'one-shot' mission.

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Here is a Hurricat Mark

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Thanks Dennis, I'll try and find some videos, presently my PSSA slope glider Hurricane has arrived, in the next few days / weeks I've got to choose a colour and type scheme.

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I've found some 'Hurricats' in some footage, starts at time  1:47 in the video. 

The reason for CAM combat launches - with a narrative below :-

Commander Ian Fleming was the 2IC of British Naval Intelligence in WW2...how would he stop the 4-engined German Fw200 Condor flights shadowing, attacking and relaying to U-Boats locations of the supply convoys Britain depended on to survive?

The Fleet Air Arm Sea Hurricane saw significant operational activities in many theatres of the war. They were involved in Operation Harpoon, Operation Pedestal to Malta, Operation Ironclad to Madagascar and in convoy duties where the aircraft claimed a high number of enemy aircraft shot down, the CAM ship Hurricats alone claimed six enemy aircraft destroyed in the last five months of 1941, the first success coming on 3 August 1941, when Lt RWH Everett intercepted and destroyed a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor. Another typical operation was with FAA Hurricane W9215 flown by Sub Lt CW Walker of 804 squadron who took part in Convoy HG73. The aircraft was launched from Maplin on 14 September 1941 to drive away a Fw200, the pilot baling out into sea 100 miles southwest of Eire. He was later picked up by HMS Rochester and his aircraft lost.

 

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Hurricane Versatility

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Some personal recollections of Hurricane in action.

Hurricane 5389 Pilots II