[blackswan40]

The Hurricane was a better gun platform also being made of wood and fabric was easier to repair unlike the Spitfires all-metal construction that had to spend many hours in the repair sheds when battle damaged
as the battle progressed our new pilots that had just got their wings after going solo in their tiger moth Raf Bye-Plane Trainer
then posted to an operational fighter squadron may have had 6-10 hours on Spitfires or Hurricanes if they where lucky
then your up against a German Fighter Pilot with 6 kills in Poland 8 Kills in France and 4 kills already in the air war over England
he flys is ME-109 to the aircraft limits for he knows what his aircraft can do our young cadets had to learn quickly or he's a dead duck
but if R J had not invented the Spitfire and the Hawker aircraft Company had not invented the Hurricane then the Raf Fighter Command would have been crossing swords with the Luftwaffe in Gloster Gladiators and Hawker Harts
Also radar was our ace up our sleeve with a limited number of aircraft outnumbered 4-1 we would have had todo standing patrols
with Radar, we sat around the dispersal hut supping tea resting waiting for the phone to ring "2 section scramble"
as they got airborne beeswax squadron airborne were to go Cowsley control I have trade for you over Beachy Head Bandits 40 Plus heading west make Angels one nine

Also when your fighting those Fanatics that believe they are superior to the week feeble democracies and have to prove it daily when military necessity was in direct conflict with the Nazi doctrine the later always won through as in the blitz on London on the 7th September with all our Squadrons up guarding airfields they thought September would be a walk in the park and a prelude to the invasion