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Fatboy Coxy
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Reading that ORB, three pilots had been sent to collect three Hurricanes, serial no's provided.
That same afternoon, at 5pm, a first trial launch, which can only be from the catapult was made and was unsuccessful. Just a guess but would you risk a Hurricane on a first test, perhaps a dummy glider of some description is tested, and in this case, failed either through a lack of power or no power at all.
That same afternoon, at 5pm, a first trial launch, which can only be from the catapult was made and was unsuccessful. Just a guess but would you risk a Hurricane on a first test, perhaps a dummy glider of some description is tested, and in this case, failed either through a lack of power or no power at all.
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They were first generation, well used.
In H. Dvdsns log book he lists it as the first launch.
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Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIb (Serial No. Z3424), coded AE-H, No. 402 Squadron, RCAF, flown by Sgt David W. Jenkin, shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf 109, near St. Omer, France, 27 Aug 1941.
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Fatboy Coxy
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A bit more on that aircraft loss here, 402 Squadron Hurricane IIb Z3424 AE-H Sgt. Jenkin, RAF Hornchurch, near St Omer, France
Says that 13 Spitfires and 2 Hurricanes lost this day, that was an expensive Rhubarb!
Says that 13 Spitfires and 2 Hurricanes lost this day, that was an expensive Rhubarb!
While it was the first test of the catapult setup on an actual CAM ship it was not the first test of the equipment.
The RAE at Farnborough had begun work on the rocket powered catapult trolley system in Dec 1940, firstly with an experimental ballast trolley. They achieved the first aircraft launch with a Fulmar on 17 Jan 1941, initially with the rig at ground level. A second test rig was then raised 20ft in the air and was designed with a view to training the personnel who would operate the gear in anger. Hurricanes, and later in 1942, even Seafires were tested on these rigs.
Before the CAM ships came 3 Auxiliary Fighter Catapult Ships which entered service in April 1941 (Ariguani, Patia & Maplin) to be joined by the Auxiliary AA ship Springbank and seaplane Carrier Pegasus. These were all RN manned ships. Aircraft for these ships came from 804 squadron which operated Fulmar and Sea Hurricane Ia aircraft for the purpose. The squadron relinquished this role to the Merchant Ship Fighter Unit in May 1942.
The CAM ships, manned by merchant navy personnel, then followed from May 1941, with aircraft provided by the MSFU.
So the system itself was tried and tested by the end of May 1941 when the Empire Rainbow trial took place. So the problem must have been with the individual rig itself.
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The last Sea Hurricane delivered was MkIIc NF717 during August 1943.
produced at the Hawker factory in Langley in May 1943
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