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Until the 12th October 1937, 16 months after the order was placed, that the first Mk I production aircraft flew.
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This meant a delay as a redesign was required for certain parts of the Hurricane. One of the conditions for the order was for the aircraft to be installed with a Rolls-Royce Merlin II engineĪnd for the Hurricane to be fitted with eight machine-guns instead of the four it currently had. In the same month on the 26th the aircraft was officially named the Hurricane. The Hurricane prototype arrived at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment on the 5th March 1936 then an order for 600 aircraft was placed on the 3rd June 1936. George Bulman, test pilot at Hawker, at the controls. The first flight of the prototype Hurricane, powered by a 1,025-hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 'C' engine, would take place at Brooklands on the 6th November 1935 with Issued on the 4th September 1934, which was based on Specification F.5/34, this had called for a monoplane fighter with eight machine-guns, but specific for Hawker's aircraft with a single prototype Impressed with this redesign the Air Ministry placed an order for a prototype around Specification F.36/34, This aircraft, known as the Fury monoplane, would beīased around the 1,000-hp Rolls-Royce PV.12, which would become the Merlin. So Camm and his team went away and set about improving the aircraft's design. However the Air Ministry rejected the design. This aircraft was to be based on the Hawker Fury biplane and powered by a In 1933 Sydney Camm, Hawker's chief designer, discussed with the Air Ministry the prospect of a monoplane fighter. Would fulfil a variety of different roles, with one of the more successful variants being the Hawker Hurricane Mk IID 'Tank Buster' which would earn the nickname 'Flying Can Openers'. Serving in almost every theatre of war the type Forming the backbone of Fighter Command during the early stages of the Second World War the Hurricane was the unsung hero of the Battle of Britain.