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Panama Red -> RE: Installing UV art - Part 1. (2/24/2007 8:02:12 PM)
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Vertually all Hurricanes and Spitfires sent overseas have tropical filters to extend the life of the engines since the operating conditions were far more primative than England's airfields (i.e. more dust to wear out the engine internals).
The Spitfire's two 20mm cannons were not for antishipping, but for against opposing planes like the Me 109 and Zero (which also had two 20mm cannons each). The Brits found that one 20mm exploding shell could do a lot more damage to a plane than ten rifle calaber .303 MG bullets that they were using, so the Spitfire V and later aircraft had at least two 20mm cannons each. If you look close, you can see where the factory fitted four 20mm cannons plus four .303 MG's per plane. Once in the field though two 20mm cannons were normally removed due to the loss of performance from the extra weight of all four cannons and their ammo (removing two of the 20mm cannons also cut down on the amount of ammo that had to be shipped out to these theators too).
I too really like to Hurricane, but remember, only the early Hurricanes Mk. I's were all fabric (and fixed two prop versus the later adjustable three prop Hurries). The later Mk. I's, Mk. II's and Mk. IV's all had metal wings, but still a fabric fuselage even though the pilot had as much armor around his cockpit as the Spitfire.
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