[General Obi-Wan]

Tis is (I hope) an easy request.

The Hillson F.40 is simply a Hurrican Mk.1 chanced to a biplane.




Sorry for not finding more pics. May you have more luck.

[RealDarko]

IIRC the Hillson have the wing added in order to store more fuel, a bit like a giant fuel tank, also IIRC again the wing is launchable in flight.
The real Hawker Hurricane biplane is the Hawker Fury

[si1va]

Hill & Sons F.H.40 is about half way down the page

http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/GREAT%20BRITAIN.htm

Some more pictures on this page, along with a few other oddballs hock:

http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/index.html

[General Obi-Wan]

The Lanc with the 10 Engines looks great.

[Guest]

The MB.5 should have gone into production. One of the best WWII fighters Britian ever made was swept aside and never realized it's full potential. Just like the XP-51J, XP-47J, Vampire, etc.

[Slow]

From that site, linked.

[caldrail]

The real Hawker Hurricane biplane is the Hawker Fury

AAAARGH! That couldn't be more wrong. The Hawker Fury was an entirely seperate design and one that followed 1930's methodologies. The Hurricane was a more advanced concept, a transitional design that retained some earlier techniques such as a fabric fuselage with internal metal frame and wooden formers, combining that with a modern metal monoque wing with retractable undercarriage and such.

The only connection between the two designs is that they were designed by teams headed by Sidney Camm, thus there is bound to be a visual similarity (such as modern Jaguars and Aston MArtins - different cars but designed by the same man, so essentially similar in appearance)

[RealDarko]

AAAARGH!

Hey mate relax!! I know they're different planes but don't tell me the Fury and the Hurricane are very similar?

[caldrail]

Oh I'm calm enough. It's just I hear this sort of litany often and it annoys me because it emerges from a misunderstanding about where the Hurricane came from. For example, this description fom Wikipedia...

[quote]
H is for Hurricane, British children's alphabet book from the Second World WarThe Hurricane was developed by Hawker in response to the Air Ministry specification F.36/34 (modified by F.5/34) for a fighter aircraft built around the new Rolls-Royce engine, then only known as the PV-12, later to become famous as the Merlin. At that time, RAF Fighter Command comprised just 13 squadrons, each equipped with either the Hawker Fury, Hawker Hart variant, or Bristol Bulldog