chris ballance
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This fun drawing was posted on X today on a question regarding the best looking Hawker aircraft. It's sort of looks like a Frankenstein Martin-Baker MB 5.
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Friday fun Super Hurri
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It looks like they left it out in the sun and it warped.
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chris ballance
Airman 1st Class
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lol, the lower rear fuselage is a bit warped looking, but I'm a terrible artist. Don't think I could do better.
I was actually thinking about the top line of the fuselage from the prop backwards, it is a banana colourised as a WW2 fighter.
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chris ballance
Airman 1st Class
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For improved pilot visibility
Shortround6
Major General
Griffon 65 + fabric rear fuselage covering?
You need
You need
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Mmmmmm. Draggy.
I can't find a link, but in reality there were projects (or at least ideas) with a Griffon engine on a Hurricane, and a separate project with bubble cabin (and floats, and a Hercules engine and ...) so you're not off by wide margin. 
Not to forget biplane variant which has been tested.
Not to forget biplane variant which has been tested.
yulzari
Staff Sergeant
They put a Griffon on a Henley so it would go in.I can't find a link, but in reality there were projects (or at least ideas) with a Griffon engine on a Hurricane, and a separate project with bubble cabin (and floats, and a Hercules engine and ...) so you're not off by wide margin.
Not to forget biplane variant which has been tested.
Shortround6
Major General
They added 4 ft to the fuselage on normal Henley and still stuck the radiator in bomb bay.
They drew up a lot of things.
They cut metal on a lot fewer.
After they did some of the calculations.
yulzari
Staff Sergeant
Trivially, you may be thinking of the Vulture Henley which used the original Henley prototype. Henley L 3414 with the Griffon in March 1941 had a bearded radiator. Equally trivially they sent Henley L3385 to Hucknall in March 1943 to be fitted with a Crecy but it never was fitted.
Howard Gibson
Senior Airman
Somebody wanted to know why Spitfires were so much faster than Hurricanes, in spite of them having the same engine.
My reference is The Aerodynamics of the Spitfire, J. A. D. Ackroyd, from the Journal of Aeronautical History, https://www.aerosociety.com/media/
4953/the-aerodynamics-of-the-spitfire.pdf
Admiral Beez
Major
As it was, can we consider the Hawker Hurricane to be the best of those fighters with a fabric covered fuselage?
Well, the Hurricane is certainly a legend, but all Yak-1,7,9 had a canvas-covered fuselage up to the metal Yak-9P and plywood Yak-3, and we are talking about almost three times more planes produced. And let's not forget that the F4U had (partially) fabric-covered wings until the -5 series.
There's a wonderful autobiographical coming of age book called "Flight of Passage", where a couple of teenagers fix up their father's old plane and then fly it across the US. The fabric is treated with butylene dope, and as the book explains, spraying dope in an enclosed space makes you high as a kite.
Just saying..
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, in my neighborhood there was a culture of sniffing glue, but like toulen (an integral part of model glue) it is unfortunately an organic solvent. And the first cells to be hit are the softest ones - located in the bone cavity above the shoulder. Admittedly, all other substances also have some permanent effect - alcohol, for example, kills them, THC makes permanent connections between neurons, but everyone is (more or less) free to choose their own poison.
, in my neighborhood there was a culture of sniffing glue, but like toulen (an integral part of model glue) it is unfortunately an organic solvent. And the first cells to be hit are the softest ones - located in the bone cavity above the shoulder. Admittedly, all other substances also have some permanent effect - alcohol, for example, kills them, THC makes permanent connections between neurons, but everyone is (more or less) free to choose their own poison.special ed
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Is that why, we who build balsa models painted with dope, hang around on the forum?
