| ### Royal Air Force History ### Hawker Hurricane - The Fighting Legend By Julian Humphries
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### Part 10 - Hurricane data a. Dimensions
Wing span: | 40 feet all versions
Wing Area: | 258 sq. feet
Length: | 31 feet 5.5 inches Mk 1. All other Marks 32 feet 2.25 inches
Height: | 13 feet 1.5 inches
Hawker Hurricane prototype 3-angle view. The upper side view is the original configuration for the aircraft, note the fabric covered wings b. Performance
Version | Merlin Engine | Max Power(hp) | Max Weight (lbs) | Max level speed(mph) | Range internal fuel (miles) | Ceiling(feet)
Prototype | C | 1025 | 5272 | 315 | 440 | 34,500
Mk 1 | II or III | 1030 | 6220 | 328 | 425 | 32,800
Mk IIA Tropical | XX or 22 | 1260 | 6450 | 342 | 470 | 34,000
Mk IIC | XX or 22 | 1260 | 7300 | 330 | 460 | 36,000
Mk XII Canadian | Packard 29 | 1300 | Not known | 330 | 460 | Not known
Mk IID A/T Cannon | XX or 22 | 1260 | 7550 | 280 | 420 | 35,500
Mk IV | 24 or 27 | 1620 | 8450 | 330 | 430 | 32,500
Mk V | 32 | 1700 | 9300 | 326 | Not known | Not known
Sea Hurricane IB | III | 1030 | 7410 | 290 | 505 | 30,000
Sea Hurricane IIC | XX | 1280 | 7618 | 301 | 452 | 34,500
Hawker Hurricane Mk I 3-angle view. The three view is an early Mk I with a two-bladed fixed pitch Watts propellor, the upper side view is a Mk I Trop. with Vokes sand filter and three-bladed variable pitch propellor and the scrap view is a Canadian Hurricane Mk I with an un-spinnered Hamilton Standard propellor c. Armament and stores
Version | Fixed armament | Stores
Mk I | 8 x .303 Browning Machine guns | None
Mk IIA | 8 x .303 Browning Machine guns | 2 x 44 or 90 gal tanks
Mk IIB & Mk XII | 8 or 12 x .303 Browning Machine guns | 2 x 44 or 90 gal tanks or 2 x 250lb bombs or 2 x 500lb bombs
PR Mk I, IIB & IIC | None (photo recce versions) | 3 x F 24 cameras or 4 x F24 cameras
Mk IIC & Sea Hurricane IIC / XIIC | 4 x 20mm Oerlikon or Hispano cannon | 2 x 44 or 90 gal tanks or 2 x 250lb bombs or 2 x 500lb bombs
Mk IID | 2 x .303 Browning Machine guns | 2 x 40mm Vickers cannon
Mk IV & V | 4 x 20mm Oerlikin or Hispano cannon or 2 x .303 Browning Machine guns | 2 x 44 or 90 gal tanks or 2 x 250lb bombs or 2 x 500lb bombs or 2 x 40mm Vickers cannon or 8 x 3in rocket projectiles
Note: - Hurricanes also carried flares, smoke laying equipment and insecticide canisters as necessary. Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC 3-angle view. The middle side view is a Sea Hurricane Mk IC, the upper side view is a Mk IV armed with two podded Vickers 40 mm anti-tank cannon d. Production Figures
Company | Location | Figures | Marks
Hawker Aircraft Ltd | Kingston, Brooklands & Langley | 10,030 | All except Mks X, XI, XII (Canadian production)
Gloster Aircraft Ltd | Hucclecote | 2,750 | I, IIA/B/C
Austin Motor Ltd | Birmingham | 300 | II
Canadian Car & Foundry Co | Canada | 1,451 | I, X, XI, XII (licence built versions of Mk I and II)
Avions Fairey | Belgium | 1 | I (planned production cancelled by German occupation)
Total all versions | 14,533
Note: - Some sources quote total production as 14,670 Hurricane Mk I in 111 Squadron markings from 1939 A Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 in 1 Squadron markings from July 1940 Hurricane Mk I in 32 Squadron markings from September 1940 A twelve-gun Hawker Hurricane Mk IIB Trop. with Vokes sand filter in 30 Squadron markings as they fought the Battle of Ceylon from Ratmalana in April 1942 A four 20 mm cannon armed Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC in 5 Squadron markings operating in South-East Asia in 1944 e. Hurricane Aces Fifty-eight pilots achieved ten or more victories flying Hurricanes. During the Battle of Britain Douglas Bader was credited with the destruction of 11 enemy aircraft while commanding 242 Sqn (Canadian). The following pilots scored twenty or more.
Rank | Name | Squadrons | Score
Flt Lt | Pattle DFC | 33 & 80 | 35
Gp Capt | Carey DFC, AFC, DFM | 3, 43, 135 & 267 | 25
Sqn Ldr | Lacey DFM | 501 | 23
Wg Cdr | Crossely DSO, OBE, DFC | 32 | 20
Sqn Ldr | Vale DFC, AFC | 80 | 20
f. Hurricane customer nations. Belgium, Canada, Finland, Free French, Holland, India, Ireland, Persia, Poland (one a/c only), Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Soviet Union, Turkey and Yugoslavia. Photographic evidence confirms the use of several captured Hurricanes by the Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica.
###### Date Last Updated : Tuesday, October 14, 2003 0:09 AM
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