Sea Hurricane

[Nisky]

   The sea hurricane mkIIC was equipped with a 1280hp Rolls-Royce XX engine , top speed of 341 at 22,000 ft, and armed with 4 20mm cannons. From what i can find a lot of them were catapulted from a total of 35 merchant ships but a number were converted for carrier based operations.  In august of 1942 near malta , Sea Hurricanes from 3 carriers shot down 39 axis planes, with the loss of just seven.
    Just a wishlist post to maybe up are CV's plane list. What do guys think?

[VansCrew1]

   The sea hurricane mkIIC was equipped with a 1280hp Rolls-Royce XX engine , top speed of 341 at 22,000 ft, and armed with 4 20mm cannons. From what i can find a lot of them were catapulted from a total of 35 merchant ships but a number were convertered for carrier based operations.  In august of 1942 near malta , Sea Hurricanes from 3 carriers shot down 39 axis planes, with the loss of just seven.
    Just a wishlist post to maybe up are CV's plane list. What do guys think?

I can just see it now, hurricane coming off of a CV and Hoing everything.   










NO

[Denholm]

We have the seafire. I say, "Sure."

[Motherland]

 From what i can find a lot of them were catapulted from a total of 35 merchant ships but a number were convertered for carrier based operations. 

Then... why would we have them?

[Nisky]

Because 400 were used on fleet carriers with a total of 1200 converted for sea operations.

[C(Sea)Bass]

If they were never converted for carrier use, then how were 400 used on carriers?

[VansCrew1]

Because 400 were used on fleet carriers with a total of 1200 converted for sea operations.

Wikipedia:
Sea Hurricane IIC
Hurricane IIC version equipped with naval radio gear; 400 aircraft were converted and used on fleet carriers.

[Karnak]

Next British CV aircraft should be the Firefly.

[VansCrew1]

Next British CV aircraft should be the Firefly.

The Fairey Firefly

 

4 20mm's and up to 2 1000lbs bombs. 

[C(Sea)Bass]

Thats a big frakkin picture.
Whats the role of the back seaters in that plane?

[Nisky]

Makin sammiches for the pilot.

[C(Sea)Bass]

Makin sammiches for the pilot.

What kind of fool lets his wife in the plane?

[Swatch]

sounds like the recipe for wifey-ack at CLOSE RANGE!!!

[Karnak]

Whats the role of the back seaters in that plane?

The Firefly was designed to a specification set when the Royal Navy still believed that the workload on a fighter pilot would be too heavy if he had to navigate and fly the fighter alone.  It was the last Royal Navy fighter to follow that design philosophy as the subsequent Sea Fury shows.

Seafires were ad hoc because the RN needed something better than Skuas, anything.


The Firefly was the first British aircraft to fly ov er Tokyo in WWII.

[VansCrew1]

Thats a big frakkin picture.
Whats the role of the back seaters in that plane?

It's for the observer.


it dose 316MPH at 14,000ft.