A couple of little Hawkers

[Tiger Tim]

The hangar was getting cleaned the other day so these two were pushed out into the sunshine. The Hurricane flies but the Fury is still having some finishing touches done on reassembly after import.

 

[Victor Bravo]

Delightful! Sir Sydney is smiling down upon you!

 

[cluttonfred]

An Isaacs Fury and a Sindlinger Hurricane...?

 

[Wanttaja]

An Isaacs Fury and a Sindlinger Hurricane...?

That sentence sounds like it should end, "...walked into a bar....."

Ron Wanttaja

 

[Tiger Tim]

An Isaacs Fury and a Sindlinger Hurricane...?

Yep!

 

[cluttonfred]

Yep!

I am very jealous.

 

[fly2kads]

How cool! Someone has good taste in aircraft. I want to see air-to-air formation shots once the Fury gets sorted out.

 

[Tiger Tim]

I want to see air-to-air formation shots once the Fury gets sorted out.

That’s the plan. They ought to look great in the air together.

 

[Bill-Higdon]

That sentence sounds like it should end, "...walked into a bar....."

Ron Wanttaja

Yu beat me to it

 

[cluttonfred]

I would love to see a Sindlinger Hurricane with an inline engine done up as four-cannon Hurricane IIc in North Africa complete with big tropical chin air filter. An Aeromomentum AM13 100 hp should be just right. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if the Sindlinger plans are still available?

 

[Tiger Tim]

100 hp should be just right

I believe it was designed for 150 and honestly the wide cowl to enclose a flat engine really isn’t that bothersome of a trade-off.

 

[pictsidhe]

I would love to see a Sindlinger Hurricane with an inline engine done up as four-cannon Hurricane IIc in North Africa complete with big tropical chin air filter. An Aeromomentum AM13 100 hp should be just right. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if the Sindlinger plans are still available?

If you're going to build an African Hurricane, go for the IID!

 

[TFF]

Waiting for the formation fly by picture.

 

[cluttonfred]

More than 20 years ago I played one of the first massive online multiplayer games called WarBirds, which was a WWII air combat simulator with up to 200 players on simultaneously. I always had a thing for playing the early war planes like the Hurricane, Wildcat, Airacobra, etc. and learning the fighting style that worked best for those planes rather than just being another player in a Mustang or Me-109. I got a lot of victories with the Hurricane IIC against people that saw it as a stodgy slow plane for beginners like the Hurricane I. You had to conserve ammo and wait for your shot (only 60 rounds per gun for the four 20mm cannons) but you could destroy just about anything head on. So, while I admire the guts of those who flew low level IID missions with the 40mm guns, make mine a IIC.

 

[wiloows5050]

I would love to see a Sindlinger Hurricane with an inline engine done up as four-cannon Hurricane IIc in North Africa complete with big tropical chin air filter. An Aeromomentum AM13 100 hp should be just right. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if the Sindlinger plans are still available?

Fred’s son Lyle is selling the plans. He may still have a couple of sets left. He was asking $275.

 

[wiloows5050]

Is that Bob Gibson’s old Sindlinger hurricane?

 

[Tiger Tim]

Is that Bob Gibson’s old Sindlinger hurricane?

Best of my knowledge this one was built by Harry Lasachuk. I bet I butchered that spelling.

 

[David L. Downey]

does anyone know how to contact Lyle for plans?
Thanks

 

[Bill-Higdon]

AT least it wasn't a pair of "Little Fokkers"

 

[cluttonfred]

Now you've done it, Tiger Tim. I haven't even received the Viking Cygnet plans I ordered last week yet, and now I've gone ahead and ordered Sindlinger Hurricane plans, too! ;-)