Any reason for not including NW, 33 Sqdn?
Returning to Rocketeer’s main point concerning the future of Maffett’s Hurricane, the response I got from the museum at the beginning of the year was that it had been placed in store at
Stafford pending its return to Hendon following the completion of the centenary celebrations. Bruce’s post at #16 para 3 makes a valid point.
P&P, ref your #41. The machine represented would have been Gloster built. It must be make believe. Very poor for a place like Duxford. I have never seen G1 or 40H before. A CCF connection? I doubt it very much and certainly not for that early production machine.
P&P, ref your #37 post, what evidence do you have for Gloster using G3? All Gloster Hurricane material I have found so far uses G5. It is easy to confuse a ‘3s’ and ‘5s’ in the style of lettering used in the 1920s to 1940s; could that be where G3 has slipped in?
Alas no. I have the feeling that many/most of today’s flyers are only fitted with the external plywood panel by the aerial mast and not the internals. The exception might be R4118.
Base support for the upward recognition device inside the fuselage just by the aerial base – see picture no.13 on the wwetc.hurricane501.co.uk site ‘picture gallery’.
That long panel is in the order of 3 inches wide, your piece looks wider. The tube to the left of it is round and made of steel. The only place I can think of with that kind of thickness of ply but I don’t know about extent (and I don’t know the entire structure of the Hurricane) is in parts of the radiator fairing.
hawker1966, what makes you think Hurricane? It looks a chunky bit of ply – what thickness? Most of the sheet ply on the Hurricane is quite thin.
Thank you ExBrat, I was beginning to give up hope with this. Your suggestion makes sense. At least it is a recognised rivet form. As it is the only one of this type I have come across, maybe it is a one-off replacement item.
The remains of Gerard Maffett’s Hurricane have been moved to the Museum’s store at Stafford for the duration of the centenary activities. The move must have presented quite a challenge! Thereafter the exact location for displaying the remains has yet to be decided. For those with an interest in this particular aircraft there is a small display of items not included in the original Hendon display at the East Essex Aviation Museum at Point Clear near Clacton.
Tangmere1940, the ‘accent’ over the name could well be the dot of an ‘i’, as in the word ‘bei’. That said such captions should be treated with caution.
Try squadrons with a second letter U. Not that many: DU, JU, OU, WU and maybe FU & AU. The upstroke of the letter closest to the roundel has a deceptive curve level with the centre of the roundel to give the impression of an O or D, but that apparent curve is probably the result of damage. If a ‘proper’ curve in the lettering then it would make a very small O or D and be quite disproportionate to the size of the roundel and the G. That then opens the possibility for a letter U (or even J) in addition to O and D which remain just as valid.
And don’t dismiss any squadron codes ending in ‘U’, if there are any. That apparent curve near the ground indicating a D or O could just be a bend in the skin or a piece of wreckage in the way.
Looking for Hurricane part for restoration of P3708:
Stainless steel stiffener attached to each end of the centre section front spar. Rear side needed, which differs visually from the front side primarily by the four small bolt holes around the top larger hole – see photo. Part number B74460. Does not need to be a perfect example, although that would be preferable. Similar condition to that in the photo might do.
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Windhover, what paint are you using for the structural tubes in the third photo of #1? I am about to paint some Hurricane tubes so am interested. For colour I was aiming for an aluminium finish but the colour of yours (albeit a small photo) looks good. I see you haven’t painted the stainless steel joining plates. Any particular reason for that?
Different aircraft to N3200.
1. The QV marking on Mark12’s photo doesn’t extend far enough down to the ‘opposite curvature’ of the wing fillet. See photos below.
2. The camouflage colour boundary on ‘Mark12’s’ port wing is for the opposite scheme to N3200.
3. The curvature of the bent prop is different, although it could be a different blade as the various photos of N3200 on the beach do show the prop in different positions of rotation.
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