VVS Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/vvs/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:35:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Why Russian Pilots Were Not Impressed By The Hawker Hurricane https://mechtraveller.com/2019/08/why-russian-pilots-were-not-impressed-by-the-hawker-hurricane/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/08/why-russian-pilots-were-not-impressed-by-the-hawker-hurricane/#comments Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:25:29 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5074 We think of the Hawker Hurricane as the workhorse of the Battle of Britain and, while generally acknowledged to be not as fast or glamourous as the Spitfire, most pilots found it to be a highly efficient gun platform that could take a lot of punishment. Most, but not all. Some 14,500 Hurricanes were built […]

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