Don't worry, the first landing will bounce that right out 

LOL !   

Well, if I get the hemostats out, (and find the small vice grips I'm missing) and put the ignition and battery on the front of the firewall, I think then I'm down to about 2.5 pounds 

The big spinner is aluminium with a solid back plate, the 3 blade prop is heavier ( and maybe I could put weights in the blades like the helicopter guys do)   The main flight pack will slide right up against the firewall on the inside so maybe I'm down to about 2 pounds...oooh oooh oooh and I have an old Harry Higley heavy hub...maybe i could drill and tap it and put it under the spinner............naw 

Plus the air tank is in the wing instead of behind in the fuse, so that weight is moved forward to just behind the spar ( 1 oz. x 6 inches)

All adds up, or down 

JackDD wrote on Dec 17^th, 2012 at 12:47pm:


Heck Jack.... I can sit this darn thing ON the tail jack 

What I really want now is a picture of what the gun barrels looked like on the wing....this isn't a tank buster so the long barrels don't work.... like to know what these browning guns looked like on the business end... 

I don't blame them one little bit for keeping the mad Scot away from the noisy end Jack.....

but hoping someone has a picture of that end.....noisy gun end, not noisy Jack end 

just what did the muzzle look like - flared? scalloped? tapered? big "bang" flag hanging off?

thanks Ben, but I "think" those are the ones outside of the landing lights. Inside there were 4 browning machine guns on each side, covered by the red  doped cloth until they were fired...those are the ones I'm interest in.
My plane doesn't have the cannons or the extra guns outside...

Try here Sandy

http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/image_bank/

There is a whole archive of Hurricane stuff at this museum's website.

well, got the darn thing to fit...engine may be out a tad too far but that's what I get with the standoffs I have.... (need the weight forward anyway) Too bad the plane is painted in Tangmere colours - they were never in Africa. I could hide the engine head with a sand filter under the cowl but Sandford-Tuck was strictly an Island guy.

I think the 3 blade will look great on the end...and I'm thinking I'm going to cut a small hole in the exhaust area on both sides and "carefully open the ends of the molded exhaust pipes...will drain at least a little heat from the cowl....

Hi Sandy:

I don't have as much info on the Hurricane as I do for another British fighter from the same period .  But here is what I have been able to find in my library on the guns when mounted in a Hurricane. I'm afraid I'm not sure what the little cuffs on the end of the barrels are.  They could be part of the machine gun assembly, or they could simply be little covers to keep the sand out while the ground crew work on the guns.

The guns were set back in the wing far enough that none of the barrel ends extended beyond the leading edge, but you didn't have to look too far down the port to see the business end of the Brownings.  I suspect you already know that.