04.06.2009, 04:14
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...
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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
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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