Hurricanes bore the brunt of air-to-air fighting in the Battle of France (May–June 1940), and there were 30 Hurricane to 19 Spitfire squadrons at the start of the Battle of Britain. Hurricanes began entering squadron service in late 1937, and some 500 were available when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939.
It was the first RAF fighter to exceed 300 mph. Its wings, rear fuselage, and tail surfaces were covered by fabric, though the fabric wing-covering soon gave way to aluminum. A low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, the Hurricane, aside from its clean lines and heavy armament, was a conventional design. It was designed around a 1,200-horsepower, 12-cylinder, in-line Merlin Rolls-Royce engine. The Hurricane emerged from efforts by Sydney Camm, Hawker’s chief designer, to develop a high-performance monoplane fighter and from a March 1935 Air Ministry requirement calling for a heavy armament of eight wing-mounted 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) machine guns. (Right: The Hurricanes at Quartz Airways Grand Opening.) Hurricanes served in all theatres of war where British forces were engaged. The Hurricane was numerically the most important British fighter during the critical early stages of World War II, sharing victories with the Supermarine Spitfire in the Battle of Britain (1940–41) and the defense of Malta (1941–42).
The Hurricane was produced by Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., in the 1930s and ’40s. The Hurricane has a beautiful light-green (grass coloured) texture with a single black propeller engine with 3 blades. Since the aircraft was used by the France military during the World War, many players play warfare role-play with the Hurricane and the P38 Lightning. It is a fast single piston-engined aircraft. The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter known for its role in World War 2.
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