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Offline Guppy35

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Re: opinions on these RAF nose cones anyone?
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2015, 11:25:27 PM »
Canadian built Hurricanes did use Hamilton Standard props. 
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Re: opinions on these RAF nose cones anyone?
« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2015, 02:12:34 AM »
Canadian hurri seems likely if we're being fanciful then.
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Re: opinions on these RAF nose cones anyone?
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2015, 09:22:13 AM »
Yes, and the other tools needed to work on the engine.  Rolls-Royce used, IIRC, metric tools and Packard used imperial tools, or vice-a-versa.

Britain wasn't metric back then. They used Whitworth tools.

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Re: opinions on these RAF nose cones anyone?
« Reply #18 on: May 06, 2015, 07:22:12 AM »
*prepare for photo intense post*

So I went for another visit and took some snaps of everything I could find on the spinners.

serial number on one of the cones, hard to read but I think it's 10689





assembly number I think



88888 P3 whatever that means


and the same sort of thing on the other



a different random number on each untitled as far as I know



698 or 869, your guess as to which




That's all I could find, one of them didn't have a serial number.

No idea if any of this helps identify the aircraft they were used on or not.


« Last Edit: May 06, 2015, 07:25:02 AM by mechanic »
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Re: opinions on these RAF nose cones anyone?
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2015, 05:38:19 PM »
 Most Hurries built in canada were built w/o nose cones...but not all. Sea Hurries all, initially, had nose cones.
 Anything else from those more knowledgable?
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