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Wasn't it the Oscar that had individually controlable flaps (or were those dive brakes?) that could stuck out to "grab" the air and help the airplane turn sharper.I think the comparison between Wildcat and Hurricane has been pretty much covered.
It's too complicated comparing the Hurricane to Oscar, Nate and Zero, so I'm just going to stick to the Oscar/Hayabusa, staying with the 'simple' theme.
Turn rate: HoHun? How much would I love to see a graph on this?
25lbs/sq ft for Hayabusa wingloading,
30 lbs/sq ft for Hurricane II.
5lbs/hp weight thrust for Hayabusa
6.4 lbs/hp for Hurricane.
Net result: better turn for Hayabusa, agrees with anecdotal info.
Is that a typo, or did you mean to denote the Hurricane's dive speed in clicks?claidemore said:Dive:
Hurricane can max dive to 450khm, but has slow dive acceleration.
Haybusa is said to dive only a bit faster than it's max speed, Hayabusa III had max speed of 365mph, so that seems like a fair figure. Love to see stat from a reliable source rather than an estimate though. Hayabusas were known to shed wings in high G pullouts.
Net result: Hurricane has better max dive speed, but poor/comparable initial dive.
Only the first 450 or so Hurricanes had fabric covered wings. Production was switched over half way through the second batch of 300. Thats out of nearly 15,000.
Slaterat
So the late Mk.I had metal wings and the Mk.IIA would have had the same 8x gun all-metal wing?
All IIa s had 8 gun wings
IIb 12 gun wing
IIc 4 x 20mm
Later in the Desert and in SE Asia many IIbs and IIcs had their armament reduced to 8x303 and 2x20mm, in the interest of increased performance.
Slaterat
I thought the Ki 43 had a small armor plate behind the pilot and self-sealing tanks