" unlike US aircraft, many Hurricanes arrived incomplete and/or needed repairs. Some had as much as 100 hours on the clock. What particularly annoyed the Soviet workers unpacking the crates was the Finnish swastika painted on some of the aircraft....Soviet pilots were taught to engage enemy aircraft in the horizontal plane and were thus quick to appreciate the Hurricanes' small turning radius which was superior both to the Me 109 and the MiG-3 and Yak 1...the Hurricanes' combat capabilities in the East were hampered though by shortages of spares, especially propellers - their wooden props were easily splintered and damaged by loose stones on take off and enemy bullets....." ( ! )
Wednesday 2 March 2011
Lend-lease Hurricanes
" unlike US aircraft, many Hurricanes arrived incomplete and/or needed repairs. Some had as much as 100 hours on the clock. What particularly annoyed the Soviet workers unpacking the crates was the Finnish swastika painted on some of the aircraft....Soviet pilots were taught to engage enemy aircraft in the horizontal plane and were thus quick to appreciate the Hurricanes' small turning radius which was superior both to the Me 109 and the MiG-3 and Yak 1...the Hurricanes' combat capabilities in the East were hampered though by shortages of spares, especially propellers - their wooden props were easily splintered and damaged by loose stones on take off and enemy bullets....." ( ! )
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