Hawker Hurricane

Hawker Hurricane IIb

[[File: Nice picture of Vivian's Hawker Hurricane |300px|]]
Type	Single piston
Author(s)	Vivian Meazza
FDM	YASim
--aircraft=	hurricaneIIb
Status	Early production

The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft. It was used during the second world war, and although inferior to such planes as the ME-109, it could with its eight guns easily deal with the slower HE-111 bombers, the JU-87 dive bombers, and the so-called ME-110 "fighters. In the Battle of Britain, the ideal strategy was for the Hurricanes to go after these heavier planes, while the more nimble spitfires mixed with the ME-109's. The Hurricane was Britain's first fighter capable of speeds in excess of 300 mph.

Operation

Start-up

1. Switch on both magnetos (press {, which = shift + [, and also }, which is shift + ])
2. Increase throttle to one-third (press page-up 33 times)
3. Pump the primer 5-6 times, and neither more nor less than 5-6 times.
4. Press and hold ignition until the engine catches.

Take off

For those of you with joysticks and rudder pedals

1. Release parking brake
2. Full throttle
3. When the tail lifts off, stabilize the plane's yaw with the rudder pedals. Pull down on the stick and take off

Everybody else

Same as above, BUT KEEP THE TAIL GLUED TO THE GROUND!

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Comparable aircraft

• IAR 80
• Messerschmitt Bf 109
• Supermarine Spitfire