Switch - on ! Op. Pallisler was the Sierra Leone intervention in 2000 - West Side Boys and Royal Marines. Op. Pedestal was the seabourne relief of Malta 1942
Thanks for the video, which is probably the best I've seen about the handling characteristics and little foibles of the early Hurricane. Wright Flyer, USAF (1968-1972)
Great tutorial, very informative and interesting. Hurricanes at RCAF Torbay (c-yyt St Johns) Newfoundland, Canada had improvised depth charges for anti submarine ops.
What sort of whip-round would it take to get a catapault launch going for this superb beast, rockets firing at dusk, maybe at the Clacton airshow from the pier?
I love that this pilot stresses the positive capabilities of both the Hurricane and Spitfire. Noting that the Spitfire was a far superior fighter aircraft but that the Hurricane more than hold its own. Although the Spitfire is my favorite aircraft ever, , I too love the Hurricane ,for it was a brilliant aircraft as well. I hope to fly a Hurricane some day but that said, I do hope , by Gods Grace, to someday own a Spitfire .
I keep buying the lottery tickets but ............ WTF was Sydney Cam thinking about with that flap / undercarriage lever 'though? An obvious disater waiting to happen, and IIRC in his memoir 'The big show' Pierre Clossterman says exactly that happened to one of the brass. (Incidentally, if you want one of the best summaries of RAF fighters in WW2 read The big show).
The Hurricane was obsolete as a fighter after the B.o.B. which made them expendable in some ways. But I feel that the Admiralty missed a trick by not adopting the Miles M20 as a shipboard fighter. It had a fixed undercarriage , but was faster then the Hurricane , had far longer endurance and carried double the ammunition. In the Med when Carriers where escorting convoys , fighter cover was provided by useless Fulmers , the M20 could have proved its worth.
So they launch a sea Hurricane to go and shoot down a German plane, and then have to ditch the Hurricane and risk the life of the pilot in the sea? --1 to the Luftwaffe and --1 to the RAF.
