Hurricane with skis

Having looked more closely at the Finnish Hurricane, it is apparent that the wheels are no longer fitted, just skis : the leg length appears correct without said wheels. So the question would now be what would be the speed performance if flown as is with u/c legs down all the time? It must be significant when such things as non-flush rivetting can have such a detrimental effect on high performance (of their time) fighter aircraft?
Kinda answers part of my former post question, I suppose… should have gone to Sp@csavers!

Brian

The Canadian modification is obviously a permanent arrangement – see the undercarriage legs, but does the Finnish mod have skis fitted on the wheels? They’re obviously unretractable as they are, and the handling performance and speed must have been drastically reduced if left down, besides if they were only temporary and abandoned on take-off, leaving the wheels as normal, how would it then land if unable to find an area without snow? I imagine we’re talking really hard winter situation in Finland, and they would have been called upon to fight, unlike the Canadian mod. which seems like more of a luxury than necessity. Over to you forum pundits now for an answer or two please!

Brian:confused:

Canada tried that, too. The image is from here:rcaf.com

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I cant see it now tho, i have the little box with an X

How about now?

I cant see it now tho, i have the little box with an X

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Can’t see the picture, but I’m almost sure you mean with SKIS, not skies, which is a plural form of word sky…

Just started to celebrate the midnight sun! 😀

I corrected that for him, the picture was visible a few minutes ago…?

Still is for me
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I corrected that for him, the picture was visible a few minutes ago…?

Can’t see the picture, but I’m almost sure you mean with SKIS, not skies, which is a plural form of word sky…