By: mike currill - 19th October 2007 at 20:01
Degraded… 😀
Just a little bit:D
By: bazv - 19th October 2007 at 19:57
Aha! The very beast! Cheers for that.
Noticed there also seems to be a panel or some skinning removed from just behind the wing as well. Any ideas what that might have been for?
Quick bale – out exit for gunner ???:D 😉
By: JDK - 19th October 2007 at 14:47
But seriously I wonder what it’s performance was?
Degraded… 😀
By: Malcolm McKay - 19th October 2007 at 14:29
Our MMP Hurricane book mentioned says:
“Hurricane with a rear gunner
One Hurricane (Canadian-built Mk XI BW948) supplied to USSR was fitted in 1942 with an open rear gunner’s position with a flexibly mounted ShKAS machine gun just behind the pilot’s cockpit. The sliding canopy was removed.”Cheers,
Of course it could be reverse evolution asserting itself with a Hurricane metamorphosing back into a Hart 😀 Attach the Hills slipwing and voila.
But seriously I wonder what it’s performance was?
By: JDK - 19th October 2007 at 13:57
Only a guess but p’raps some sort of window? for looking down.
Maybe – There is a Dzus fasted removable wooden-framed fabric covered panel there. It’s given as an artillery observation type, and it’s an artist’s interpretation – may (just) be wrong.
But it is quoted as being a Sea Huricane so maybe that’s where the hook was.
Nope. The hook’s fitted further aft.
Our MMP Hurricane book mentioned says:
“Hurricane with a rear gunner
One Hurricane (Canadian-built Mk XI BW948) supplied to USSR was fitted in 1942 with an open rear gunner’s position with a flexibly mounted ShKAS machine gun just behind the pilot’s cockpit. The sliding canopy was removed.”
Cheers,
By: Cees Broere - 19th October 2007 at 13:03
Hawker Restorations hinted at doing such a conversion IIRC
Cees
By: Malcolm McKay - 19th October 2007 at 13:02
Aha! The very beast! Cheers for that.
Noticed there also seems to be a panel or some skinning removed from just behind the wing as well. Any ideas what that might have been for?
This could be a whole new thread in itself – Russian fighter mods!!
Only a guess but p’raps some sort of window? for looking down. But it is quoted as being a Sea Huricane so maybe that’s where the hook was.
By: DazDaMan - 19th October 2007 at 11:40
Aha! The very beast! Cheers for that.
Noticed there also seems to be a panel or some skinning removed from just behind the wing as well. Any ideas what that might have been for?
This could be a whole new thread in itself – Russian fighter mods!!
By: XN923 - 19th October 2007 at 10:59
Someone tell me I didn’t!
A Russian Hurricane, with a local mod to carry a machine-gun….
BEHIND THE COCKPIT!!!
Something tells me this is genuine, but I’m not convinced as I cannot find a photo of it…. :confused:
I think there were numerous field mods to Russian Hurricanes – fairly certain there was a two seat conversion with a mg in the back (open) cockpit?
Try Mushroom’s Hurricane book, that’s quite good on Russian versions.
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