The Hurricane Pocket Manual

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THE HURRICANE POCKET MANUAL COMPILED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTIN ROBSON Contents Introduction Significant Hurricane Variants I Design and trials Specification F.5/34 Single Seater Fighter, 16 November 1934 Trial of the Hawker Monoplane, F.36/34, no. K-5083, Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Martlesham Heath, April 1936 Specification 15/36, Hawker ‘Hurricane’ – development, production 20 July 1936 Tests on the Operational Characteristics of Hurricane Aircraft, Sqdn Ldr J. W. Gillan, 21 February 1938 II Pilot Notes Pilot’s Notes: Hurricane I Aeroplane Merlin II or III Engine III Tactical Air Fighting Development Unit, Report No. 31, Tactical Trials with Hurricane Aircraft fitted to carry bombs, 7 August 1941 IV Operations 111 Squadron, Operations Record Book, September 1940 Fighter Command Combat Report, 12 Group, 9 September 1940 Sqdn Ldr Douglas Bader’s Flying Log, 7–19 September 1940 Report on the operations of No. 6 Sqdn RAF in the Eastern Desert, June 1942, Hurricane Mark IIDs operating as ‘tank-busters’ Index Acknowledgements Introduction ‘The Hurricane was our faithful charger and we felt supremely sure of it and ourselves’ Wing Commander Peter Townsend ‘It was…