Simviation Forum - The fascination of flight

Reply #15 - Oct 3^rd, 2005 at 4:07pm

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Yeah, be nicer if it was a Hurricane!!! Grin

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Has anyone ever seen a clipped-wing Hurricane? Or now I come to think of it, one with a 4-bladed prop?

That last question is not as silly as it might appear. Answers please on a £10 note to the usual address. Wink

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Reply #16 - Oct 3^rd, 2005 at 4:15pm

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Good stuff, as usual- gives me an idea for a "Hisory of Flight" airshow that would start with some nut with bat-wings jumping off a tower, move on through tethered manned kites, balloons, and gliders.... then a series of steam-powered gyropters, airphibious houseboats and other things that never really flew... then to the Edwardian birds, and beyond.
might need a whole weekend for it... Grin

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Reply #17 - Oct 3^rd, 2005 at 4:48pm

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Good stuff, as usual- gives me an idea for a "Hisory of Flight" airshow that would start with some nut with bat-wings jumping off a tower, move on through tethered manned kites, balloons, and gliders.... then a series of steam-powered gyropters, airphibious houseboats and other things that never really flew... then to the Edwardian birds, and beyond.
might need a whole weekend for it... Grin

That sounds just like the film "The Magnificent Men". if you could do it I think it would prove very popular. Meanwhile, the regular shows at Old Warden are the nearest to it that I've seen or ever expect to see. Wink

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Reply #18 - Oct 3^rd, 2005 at 4:52pm

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LOL- Don't think I've seen that film since I was a kid...I should rent that soon.

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Reply #19 - Oct 3^rd, 2005 at 5:01pm

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LOL- Don't think I've seen that film since I was a kid...I should rent that soon.

I recommend it. All these aeroplanes (& others in the hangars on this particular day) were the real stars of that film. The Avro Triplane & Bristol Boxkite replicas in this thread were built specially for it. Wink

PS. Sorry, I'm getting confused. Roll Eyes

I mean the ones in my Edwardians thread. http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=photos;action=display;num=...

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Reply #20 - Oct 4^th, 2005 at 3:40am

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Has anyone ever seen a clipped-wing Hurricane?

Not as such. I've seen a Hurricane with 2 wings, and a Hurricane with one clipped wing (after hitting a German aircraft with it)...

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Or now I come to think of it, one with a 4-bladed prop?

The BBMF's LF363 has spent quite a lot of time over the years with 4-blades, although not recently...

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Reply #21 - Oct 4^th, 2005 at 4:50am

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I haven't seen a clipped-wing Hurricane either although it's quite possible there was such an animal.

I didn't know about that BBMF 4-blader so that's another one for my little Black Book of useless information. Cheesy

I have good reason to believe that there will be an article on Hurricanes fitted with 4-bladed props (there was more than one) in a future issue of Aeroplane so keep your eyes peeled. Wink

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Reply #22 - Oct 4^th, 2005 at 6:05am

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I haven't seen a clipped-wing Hurricane either although it's quite possible there was such an animal.

I didn't know about that BBMF 4-blader so that's another one for my little Black Book of useless information. Cheesy

Its just occured to me that when first restored for the late Charles Church, Hurricane "G-ORGI" flew with a four blade prop too. I'll see if I can find a picture. It went on to reside with the Santa Monica MoF, and most recently with Ed Russell in Niagara, Ontario...

[edit]PZ865 also had a four blader in the late 80's/early 90s. If I remember correctly it was wearing this scheme for the 50th anniversary of the BoB in 1990...

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/756080/M/

[edit2]...and by 1990 it had a 3 blader again!

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/324429/M/

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Reply #23 - Oct 4^th, 2005 at 12:48pm

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Yeah, be nicer if it was a Hurricane!!! Grin

Shhhhh be vewy quiet.... Huwwicane is a bad word here in Florida!

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Reply #24 - Oct 4^th, 2005 at 12:55pm

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Shhhhh be vewy quiet.... Huwwicane is a bad word here in Florida!

In which case from this point on it shall be refered to simply as the Hawker "Ahem".

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