Cambridge Bomber & Fighter Society

Sydney Camm's configuration for the Hurricane was his reaction to the Air Ministry determination F.7/30, however not his first. Camm, Chief Designer for Hawker Aircraft Ltd, had two past plans, one biplane, and one monoplane, rejected. The task was presently gone ahead, with Hawker's backing, as a private wander and turned into a readymade outline for the more progressed 1935 Air Ministry determination F.10/35, the main huge alteration to the configuration being made to the wings keeping in mind the end goal to oblige the predetermined number of automatic weapons.This is one of the initial hundred Hurricanes at Brook lands, before conveyance to squadron administration. Note the twin edge, settled pitch wooden propeller. These air ship were a piece of 4 Hurricane squadrons that traveled to France in the opening weeks of World War II and included 1 Squadron, 73 Squadron and the propelled striking power, 85 Squadron and 87 Squadron giving spread to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). At the point when the adversary attacked the Low Countries things began to hot up amid the time of May. A couple of remainders of different squadrons were looked to extracate themselves from France up until the end of June. These are a portion of the air ship numbers that were utilized L1604; L1632; L1634; L1637; L1639; L1644; L1648.The Hurricane first flew in 1936 and started to be conveyed for squadron administration in 1938. These air ship were worked at Kingston and Brook grounds and issued to 85 Squadron (we trust these were in this way flown by Pilot Officers Lewis, Hemingway, Lee), 504 Squadron for a brief period, in the Battle of France. From my dad's memory (who was based at Abbeville, Seclan and Lille) amid those months, this specific airplane was worked amid September 1938 and was shot down in France by BF109 as a feature of the 111 gathering JG26, in the zone of Lille/Mamo amid May 1940. It was flown by Parnell.