Hawker Hurricane (oz15453)
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Hawker Hurricane. Free flight scale model for rubber power. Wingspan 26-7/8 in.
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Quote: "Steve, I think I have the Miniature Aircraft Corp Hawker Hurricane Mk I done... Attached is the plans and printed wood along with a picture of the box label. The box label is a little ratty, but you can read it. I will send you the decals in a separate email since they are too large to send with this email.
Here are a couple of observations I see with this kit. First I can not find the R-9 part for the rudder on the printed wood. I don't know if there is another sheet of wood or they just missed it on the printed wood. The worst case is you can still use the plans to create it so that is not a big deal. E-1 for the elevator seems to be missing or at least I can not find it. Other then this I think everything is there.
Second observation, as I have alluded to before this looks like an early production Mk I since it has the 'kidney bean' exhaust stacks and venturi tube on the side of the cockpit. I also noticed that there are only 4 guns. This could because of an assumption from the designer since he states that the blisters on the engine cowling are 'streamline covers for machine guns' which are not for guns and didn't know how many it had in the wings.
One curiosity note, there are struts for the horizontal stabilizer. I believe that the prototype had the struts, but none of the production models did. The guns and the struts might because the designer was working with a very early evidence of the Hurricane and pieced together his design from what he had at the time.
As for when this kit came out. the earliest ad that I found was from the Jan. 1940 MAN (see attached page)... Thanks, Roger"
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Decals.
Printwood.
Rudder drawing.
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(oz15453)
Hawker Hurricane
by Frank T Roberts
from Miniature Aircraft Corp
1940
27in span
Scale Rubber F/F LowWing Military Fighter
clean :)
all formers complete :)
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Submitted: 21/07/2024
Filesize: 1208KB
Format: • PDFbitmap
Credit*: RogerB
Downloads: 905
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Meticulous work, Roger. Thank you.Hubert - 04/08/2024
It has very little dihedral. Looks great but does it fly?!
bill dennis - 05/08/2024
I guess there's one way to find out. Mind you, if I ever did get around to building this one for myself, it would most likely be for electric power with micro RC. So I guess that wouldn't prove anything much at all really. Not about the original FF design.
SteveWMD - 05/08/2024
I noticed that as well. I recently acquired the Aeromodels Hurricane kit and it is very similar to this one in structure, with scale dihedral, which struck me as impractical (Aeromodels were noted for strict adherence to scale measures). Comparing it to Doug McHard's rubber powered Hurricane it is clear that he used much more dihedral for stability in the turn. I would have thought a low-winged subject like this would require such for FF rubber, so it might be better to incorporate a bit more. Nice looking model though - accurate outline and interesting multi-ribbed structure, possibly an attempt at suggesting an early fabric-winged Hurricane.
S Burling - 05/08/2024
It's probably an early example of a scale plan with emphasis on accuracy and details like landing lights or pitot tube. Have you noticed the separate ailerons and tail 'rudders'? In this respect flight capabilities can be marginal and for extra points only.
Hubert - 06/08/2024
Definitely a very early Hurricane, as evidenced by the lack of the under-fuselage sub-fin/tailwheel fairing. It would make an excellent electric RC model with a 15g 2700kV outrunner using a 6x3 prop on a 2S Lipo.
Pete Theobald - 16/08/2024
Very early indeed. Hurricane L1547 was the first production Hurricane to enter service and L1549 was in the first batch to join 111 sqd. The strake and larger rudder were added to later aircraft to improve spin recovery. L1549 was lost in July 1938 killing the pilot. The colour scheme quoted on the plan is incorrect. The aircraft had the standard RAF D. Earth / D Green camouflage and possibly large serial numbers on the undersides of the wings.
pmw - 16/08/2024
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