THE HURRICANE AND THE SPITFIRE

Two aircraft, the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire, were the mainstays of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. They were both developed in the mid-1930s during the period when the RAF was searching for a high-performance modern monoplane fighter. Both depended on the simultaneous development of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, without which the high performance of the two fighters would not have been possible. The Hurricane and Spitfire were very different aircraft but were created at almost exactly the same time. The Hurricane was designed in 1934–35 by the Hawker Aircraft Company’s Sydney Camm in response to an Air Ministry specification. His first design was turned down, but he immediately began a “private venture” design built around the Merlin engine which the RAF liked and ordered into production in…

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