Hurricane
The Hawker Hurricane — the Battle of Britain workhorse that shot down more enemy aircraft than the Spitfire — captured as a sport-scale RC warbird.
About
The Hawker Hurricane is the work of designer Sydney Camm, whose Hawker Aircraft Limited produced one of the most important British fighters of the Second World War. The prototype Hurricane made its first flight on November 6, 1935, with Hawker chief test pilot P.W.S. Bulman at the controls — and the type entered RAF service in December 1937, two years before the Spitfire. By the outbreak of war in September 1939, the Hurricane was the RAF's most numerous fighter, equipping nearly two-thirds of the operational squadrons of Fighter Command.
The Hurricane's Battle of Britain performance is the foundation of its reputation. During the summer of 1940, RAF Hurricanes accounted for roughly 60% of the Luftwaffe aircraft destroyed by Fighter Command, while Spitfires took the remainder — partly a function of squadron numbers (more Hurricanes than Spitfires were operational that summer) and partly a function of the Hurricane's specific tasking against bomber formations. The aircraft's tubular-steel-and-fabric construction was older-fashioned than the Spitfire's stressed-skin all-metal structure, but it had specific tactical advantages: easier to repair from battle damage, more forgiving as a gun platform, and a more stable approach to landing for tired pilots returning from a fight.
The Hurricane served in every theater of the war — Battle of Britain, North Africa, Mediterranean, Burma, Russia (where it was supplied through Lend-Lease), and the Pacific. Production reached over 14,500 airframes across all variants. The unmistakable Hurricane silhouette — thicker-set than the Spitfire, with a distinctive flat-bottomed wing and broader fuselage — is one of the most-modeled British WWII fighter subjects in modern RC scale flying.
In the simulator
A satisfying warbird scale subject. The Hurricane in our sim has the substantial-but-friendly handling of the real airframe — predictable in stall behavior, willing on the controls, and the kind of forgiving low-wing taildragger character that makes warbird flying teachable. Use it for warbird-style scale flying: low passes down a grass strip, gentle wing-overs, and the unhurried pattern circuit a Battle of Britain pilot would have flown. Pairs well with grass-strip landscapes that suit the wartime British-airfield aesthetic. A natural sibling of the Spitfire (Scale WW2 Warbirds pack).
