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Hurricane SD-X, V6799..Airfix box art plane..photo at last!


Troy Smith

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Tut, tut, tut.  Airfix gets it wrong again.  It's blatently obvious in the photograph that the internal bracing of the wing is damaged just behind the leading edge, that a diagonal brace is completely missing and the leading vertical brace is quite clearly buckled.  Do they care?  Quite obviously not. The careless twits clearly show the diagonal brace in place and the leading vertical brace intact in their picture.  I dunno, you just cannot expect kit manufacturers to get anything right; can you?  ;)

 

Nice find and another testament to the Hurricane's reputation for absorbing significant damage and remaining flyable.

 

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That's a photo that I've seen at Jet Age, where we have a replica of V6799.

There's also this print prepared in consultation before the pilot passed away.

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Got to say I prefer the Airfix way, with the bandit corkscrewing around the Hurricane.

 

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May well be more info in this book - that I've never found.

 

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3 hours ago, theplasticsurgeon said:

May well be more info in this book - that I've never found.

 

HurricaneCombatBook_zpsndq8l9gw.jpg

 

The photo posted by Troy was published in the MacKenzie's book "Hurricane Combat".  It's a good read...and MacKenzie was a charming gent in-person. 

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2 hours ago, theplasticsurgeon said:

That's a photo that I've seen at Jet Age, where we have a replica of V6799.

There's also this print prepared in consultation before the pilot passed away.

HurricanePicture_zpsdqsd3cg7.jpg

 

Got to say I prefer the Airfix way, with the bandit corkscrewing around the Hurricane.

 

S5000023_zps3adgvqk2.jpg

 

 

May well be more info in this book - that I've never found.

 

HurricaneCombatBook_zpsndq8l9gw.jpg

 

2 hours ago, theplasticsurgeon said:

That's a photo that I've seen at Jet Age, where we have a replica of V6799.

There's also this print prepared in consultation before the pilot passed away.

HurricanePicture_zpsdqsd3cg7.jpg

 

Got to say I prefer the Airfix way, with the bandit corkscrewing around the Hurricane.

 

S5000023_zps3adgvqk2.jpg

 

 

May well be more info in this book - that I've never found.

 

HurricaneCombatBook_zpsndq8l9gw.jpg

You can buy it for 1p + £2.80 postage

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=hurricane+combat

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wondering what happened afterwards. I know Mackenzie made a wheels-up landing on top of the Downs (so to speak) - obviously he's lost the use of an aileron but the airfield was very close by. And was SD-X then written off ?

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