All Aircraft enthusiasts owe a massive thankyou to those dedicated men, who untiringly devote their time for our pleasure.

Well done team, I got a huge lump in my throat as her wheels lifted off the strip. Seeing this iconic beautiful machine flying again reborn makes me feel very privileged, thank you. I have been following a few rebuilds, the DeHavilland Mosquito another one worth mentioning. The Hurricane always seemed to live in the shadow of the great Spitfire, yes and no as far as I see, making its mark as a willing plane landing and taking off on very ' challenging minute decks of aircraft carriers. This fact made them very special, and in my eyes just as important, I salute everyone involved, regards Paul van Niekerk., Durban, South Africa.

Professional restoration, professional documentary. Thank you, and very well done to all concerned

I dig listening to the Old Timers tell stories. Better the ones that served together. I could sit and listen to these men all day.

As a totally unqualified WW2 historian as well as a warbird nut, Well done you blokes. Oh how I'd love to be involved in something like this. Brilliant.

@salmanrizvi9495

2 жыл бұрын

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It's a blessing that enough qualified, experienced and talented people were still around to perform the restoration. Truly a passion and love of the trade.

SUPERB!! what a Brilliant Crew to preserve an amazing plane for future generations. Hopefully all the technical knowledge has been documented for the future. Well don't to all involved!

This one rebuild has prompted a whole bunch of others. Going from only one airworthy examples to dozens.

As a little boy, I lived near Fleet in Hampshire. I though the fleet air arm was an air force squadron based in Fleet!

I never knew the internals were wire braced and trued. Fascinating. Thank you for posting this.

53:17 - those early exhaust stacks are totally different than I imagined them to be. Little narrow curved slits.

Love that remarkable fighter

The full frontal nude calendar left in frame just after the 39 min. mark made me chuckle.

Bravo guys! Bravo. Great story.

Three months to build, ten years to restore.

As a Yank I am as excited as everyone across the pond ! Bully !!

39:05 check out the calendar in the upper left corner of the frame!

@markdavis2475

5 жыл бұрын

LOL Saw it when this was last uploaded!

@cal-qw8ov

3 жыл бұрын

It's a British garage,what do you expect...

Next step: restoration of an old Royal Navy carrier for the complete picture :D

@HauntedXXXPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Estimated time: 350 years :'D

@morebeer2me

3 жыл бұрын

,.,

Great museums. Both less than 1 hours drive from me. Been to both many times.

great content, thumbs up

I'm sitting about 3.5 miles from the factory in Fort William where she was built. Now they build light rail cars.

@johnarmstrong3782

5 жыл бұрын

Do you happen to know where the engines were made?

@HistoricAeroEngines

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnarmstrong3782 The Merlin III in this Sea Hurricane was built at Derby.

@HistoricAeroEngines

4 жыл бұрын

@soaringtractor Hi ST. You are correct, my error. It has a Packard Mk29. I was mistakenly thinking about the other Shuttleworth Hurricane, R4118.

Countdown to a future when we can simply 3D-print a fully operational Hurricane. I might be dead by then.

@burningb2439

3 жыл бұрын

Har har ha..great comment..

nice doc

Canadians in the know have a special affection for the Hawker Hurricane, I think its toughness fits with the image of Canada's vast territory and almost endless wilderness. Canada as a big robust country appreciates an aircraft that can be adaptive and so easily repaired and returned to action. So often Canada has taken on the role of being the glue, that can on occasion, bind Britain & America together. What is a better symbol of this glue than a Packard Merlin in a Canadian built British designed aircraft.

East of England, jewel in the crown!

The narrator could work as a stunt double for John Major . . .

@SC-re8qr

3 жыл бұрын

John Major does his own stunts. He did a lot to resolve northern Ireland.

First I ever heard of Sea Cats was in the Comic Valiant / Battle strip of Johnny Red ..

Brilliant

Too nice video of hawker hurricane Britain aircraft with amazing and proudly historic in every chapters belongs to hawker hurricane c ⚓.🇬🇧🦇♥️👍👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻

Probably easier to land on a rolling deck than a Seafire.

@neilpemberton5523

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. It had a wide undercarriage because the legs opened outwards. The Seafire, exactly like the Spit, had an undercart with inward opening legs. Thus the Sea Hurricane had a wide stable track when landing, and the Seafire a narrow precarious one.

There is no debate about the Hurricane being Britain’s most important WW2 fighter. The debate is convincing the non believers.

Pity that Glorious blundered into a gunfight.

Today, in 2020, quite a few of the remaining Hurricanes are indeed Sea Hurricanes

What wonderful men .

During war time, when these fabric covered/bagged fuselages got damaged, how were they repaired? Fabric and glue?

Hugh Popham the most English name ever.

Sea Hurricane is much better than Seafire since its landing gear is wider. It make Sea Hurricane is easier landing on the aircraft carrier

Летал и в советских ВВС, в основном в частях ПВО. Кличка "горбатый" или "Харитон"

Does anyone know how many are sitting on the bottom of the sea after launching from CAM ships? Terribly wasteful but necessary i suppose.

*Surely be more cost effective to build a new one from original blueprints. OK you can only claim it to be a 'Replica' but at least you would know it's 99.9% safe.*

@frankanderson5012

5 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing it wouldn't be that straight forward. You would have to make all the machinery and tools that made the parts to begin with and for one aircraft I'm guessing that wouldn't be cost effective. Would be great though.

PLEASE !! Can anyone tell the difference between a sea and a regular Hurricane. Thanks in advance.

@paulcollins9397

4 жыл бұрын

peer... Tailhook.

Something that always made me wonder - why did RAF aircraft have French flag at the tail during that period?

@Ukraineaissance2014

5 жыл бұрын

Its just the British colours. Probably no coincidence that the design came in during the great war when they were fighting alongside france either

@vicecapo8767

4 жыл бұрын

Its called a fin flash and has nothing to do with the french flag

Did the one older gentleman, when talking about the hurricane and battle of Britain movie , say he was "working for his sins" at ...?

Why didn't they put pontoons on them like the Zero? Then they would winch them back on board the CAT ships.

@ianwilkinson4602

3 жыл бұрын

Just before I read your comment, I was thinking that self same thing, "why not add floats? " ;-)

@andrewcharles459

3 жыл бұрын

I can only think of two possible reasons: 1) They'd have to stop ship to bring a floatplane aboard, which would be very problematic in a convoy; and 2) sea conditions in the mid-Atlantic air gap and the Murmansk route - the only areas these were needed - I assume would be quite rough and not be very favourable for floatplane operations.

@ianwilkinson4602

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewcharles459 Excellent comment and absolutely true, even landing on an aircraft carrier under those conditions would be difficult at best :-)

Test pilot had no chute.....!

@gregedwards1087

5 жыл бұрын

Unless there is a catastrophic wing failure (never happen with a Hurricane), you don't need a parachute, and in the case of an engine failure Hurricanes glide exceptionally well anyway.

Let's hope the CAM pilot received a reach-around before he went up, bloody awful...what!

@alecblunden8615

5 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was RNAS in the First World War. This involved flying Camels from towed rafts or platforms built over gun houses. The landing options were a) try to reach land or b) ditch to be picked up by a destroyer.. Not a million miles from the CAMS concept. As I understand the latter, they tried to use battle worn examples so loss would not be too painful.

Fascinating, but what's with that guy in the comedy hat, why can't he talk without moving his right hand up and down ?

Why didn't Sea Hurricanes have any guns? The Mk IIb had twelve! If Sea Hurricane pilots pushed back the canopy a little, they could have fired a pistol or sawn off shotgun from the cockpit.

3rd

Dude !? loose the goofy hat or the owl glasses or both....PLEASE! other wise great documentary

@ryansta

3 жыл бұрын

Haha thought exactly the same, and he can't talk without constantly moving his right arm up and down like a Thunderbird puppet

How do these compare to the Japanese Zeros? Was the Zero faster? What was the fastest fighter deployed in WW2?

@markholm6955

5 жыл бұрын

The P-51H, 555 made, could go 784 km/h (487 mph). The prototype of the twin-engined de Havilland Hornet (RR915) (383 built) reached 485 mph (781 km/h) as did a prototype Hawker Fury (LA610) when fitted with a Napier Sabre VII, and a prototype of the successor to the Supermarine Spitfire, the Supermarine Spiteful F.16 (RB518), reached 494 mph (795 km/h). The fastest German propeller driven aircraft to see combat in WWII was the twin-DB 603-powered Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil" which had a top speed of 763 km/h (474 mph).

@drowningin

5 жыл бұрын

@@markholm6955 Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Can you name the countries that made those? I'm in school doing research on my phone. I can't copy and paste on the KZread app for some reason.

@markholm6955

5 жыл бұрын

Japanese Zero (A6M2 Type 0 Model 21) Maximum speed: 534 km/h (287 kn, 346 mph) at 4,550 m (14,930 ft) Hurricane Mk.IIC Maximum speed: 340 mph (547 km/h) at 21,000 ft (6,400 m)

@MrGMeredith1

5 жыл бұрын

@@drowningin The Messerschmitt Me262 had a top speed of 900kmh (559mph). It was introduced in mid 1944 in small numbers and was jet propelled. It didn't see much action (have much impact on the war) cause of the small numbers.

@drowningin

5 жыл бұрын

@Tom H. Thank you for all of that information. I heard(I think on a Timeline video) that nearing the end of the Pacific Theatre the top trained/skilled Japanese fighter pilots were mostly gone(I'm presuming dead, or PoW.) That is when Japan started training new pilots less for dog fights, and survival & switching to kamikaze missions. Where before the practice was done only done before more when their planes were going down anyways, or no hope to land safely/risk being captured. So early on kamikaze was irregular, and highly situational to later on where they relied on it in their strategies. I was fortunate enough to see an original Zero at the Houston air show, and I was told(or under the impression) that not many original zeros were still functioning & flight worthy, and typically you'll see a replica of some kind. I don't think they were/are as rare as say the German Tiger Tanks like you see in Kelly's Heroes for example where its another tank entirely with just the turrets of Tigers on top. Unsure if those turrets were original. Because I know the hulls were inaccurate. Do you enjoy the movie Kellys Heroes, and Iron Cross? My father played those movies a lot for me growing up. I was lucky my dad was a WW2 reenactor in Texas so I got to ride inside U.S. tanks, German half tracks, and mow down trees at 9 with mg42s at live fires. I have a lot of fun firing his & his Mp40, MP44, and Russian PPSH-41. Most of his gear & weapons are German, a few U.S. and only the 1 Russian Papasha. I have had very little exposure to other countries weapons, and I've only gotten to see the 1 Zero at an air show and I thought it was a very beautiful plane which is why I was so interested in how it performed compared to other fighters from the war

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5 жыл бұрын

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5 жыл бұрын

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Still arguing that a separation of the Forces has some intrinsic value? Had the RAF been asked to operate from ships the RN may have had better aircraft, faster adaptations, the right aircraft for a particular task, rotating these in and out as needs be. But no, the RN has unique skies, different clouds, and wetter water or something equally as ludicrous. There is something just dull about generals, admirals and marshals isn't there? Still locked in their midshipman clenches I suppose. The star is the equipment, like these beautiful 'planes, and the men who used them. Not rank and pompous privileges.

@alecblunden8615

5 жыл бұрын

You should have a look at some of the aircraft the RAF used from RN carriers interwar when they had control of naval aviation. The formation of the FAA had no doctrinaire element - it was pure self-preservation.

@peterclark4685

5 жыл бұрын

@@alecblunden8615 I would like to believe you but too often we hear stories of senior command refusing to adopt tech developments because they somehow offended some romantic notion of yore. It is better today however they can still use out-moded terms like 'senior service'. That has to affect their thinking. The profession of arms needs no barriers. ps: I will look up what you suggested but in return I will ask you to look at how the RN were proven bloody useless vis-a-vis the Mulberry Harbour project. Anchors, steel caissons, all well below the standard of what was required. They were deeply offended that a mere Brigadier was in charge. Churchill had to intervene and shoo them out of the room.

@Idahoguy10157

5 жыл бұрын

Peter Clark .... I’d like to hear that story. The navy versus army engineers

@peterclark4685

5 жыл бұрын

@@Idahoguy10157 I'm pretty sure it's in this one. Their new anchor broke (or exceeded) the Navy's testing equipment. When that storm came through the steel caissons broke free and threatened the entire system.

@Idahoguy10157

5 жыл бұрын

Peter Clark .... I try to bear in mind for myself that in WW2 they were doing things that had never been done. They were doing new things on a massive scale. And that WW2 was largely fought by volunteers and conscripts rather than by professional military types.

what a boring looking plane... the toyota starlet of the air

@ianwilkinson4602

3 жыл бұрын

Being pretty doesn't make the aircraft anymore effective, it is not a beauty contest :-)