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Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC

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  • Close up view of a fighter plane cockpit. The dashboard and seat are black, the joystick is tan and gray, and the walls of the cockpit are gray.
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    Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC single seat, low wing monoplane ground attack fighter; enclosed cockpit; steel tube fuselage with aircraft spruce forms and fabric, aluminum cowling, stressed skin aluminum wings and horizontal stablizer, fabric covered aluminum rudder and control surfaces; grey green camoflage top surface paint scheme with dove grey underside; red and blue national roundel on upper wing surface and red, white, and blue roundel lower wing surface; red, white, blue, and yellow roundel fuselage sides; red, white and blue tail flash; Rolls-Royce Merlin XX, liquid cooled V-12, 1,280 horsepower engine; Armament, 4: 20mm Hispano cannons.

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Eric Long and Mark Avino

Date Created

10/05/2015

Source

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Cockpits Book Photography , NASM Acc. 2016-0002

Keywords

Aircraft; Aviation; Fighters; Military; World War II

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National Air and Space Museum 650 Jefferson Drive SW
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202-633-2214

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
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703-572-4118

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