Hawker Hurricane Aerobatics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มี.ค. 2023
- Aerobatics in a Hawker Hurricane XII; cockpit view and commentary by Dave Hadfield.
www.hadfield.ca
These flights occurred during the test-flights of the newly-restored aircraft in 2022.
Song "The Hurricane" (c)2023 by Dave Hadfield
Aircraft is based at CYND, within the Mike Potter Aircraft Collection, and operated in association with Vintage Wings of Canada. www.vintagewings.ca
Note about Checklists: There are always comments about how long it takes to go through the checklists and get the thing airborne. In the B-of-B the ground crews would have started the engines and done the mag checks etc before sunrise. As soon as the pilots appeared on the airfield they'd go to their aeroplane, talk to the crew about it, check that all the switches and levers were in the right position for a Scramble, and -- very important! -- arrange the parachute and harness "just-so" for a quick strap-in-and-go; and brief the ground crew about exactly how they were going to coordinate the startup and launch. BUT... I fly many different aircraft types, our ground crew have many different duties, and we have no time-imperative. So we use checklists -- which have been shown many times to reduce the "oh-crap-forgot-that" mistakes. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
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I live these "in depth and informative" videos you do where you take your time and explain what and why - Thank you so much!
These are warbird videos at it's best. Very cool and informative. And who needs music when you can just listen to that awesome Merlin roaring. Thank you.
Lovely Hurricun! I may produce videos for the Norwegian Spitfire Foundation, but the Hurricane will always be special to me. Flown it virtually in Cliffs of Dover with fifty others recreating Battle of Britain. Everyone wanted the speed of the 109 or the grace of the Spitfire. I just wanted to fly the Hurricane and honour their pilots and ground crew. Fantastic work by the ground crew and restorers to get her flying again. Thanks for the in-depth explanation throughout the flight. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
thank you very much for the ride :)
So very cool… I was fortunate to sit in the cockpit of Hurricane BE505 (2 seat) and Spitfire Mk1 (Geoffrey Stephenson, Sangatte beach Spit) N3200. I spent a couple of hours with some ARC guys at Duxford, UK. Just an awesome experience
Excellent production
Great Video!!!!!👍
Awesome thank you
Thank You so very much for fantastic informative videos. I learn a lot, every time. Not that i ever will use this in real life, but this ww2 planes have always been The Great Love of my life. This passion started when i was two years. I am 68 now and it is still there. Watching yor vidos brings enthusiasts to as close to the real thing as it gets. Please keep doing this and thank You again. Regards Helge from Norway.
Very nice, thanks Helge!
Amazing
Awesome video sir and as a virtual hurricane pilot in the flight sim cliffs of dover and a programmer for team fusion its great to see we got it so very close to perfect........been working on this sim for 12 years so for those of you wanting the wartime version where you have to do all these things and fight real human opponents come check us out
The hurricane may not be as elegant as a spitfire, but sure has its very own robust charme
Nice to see an other Canadian hurricane back in the air. I hope to see you fly at a airshow in the future. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful, thank you.
Always love it when you upload a new video
That was great!!
Thanks again from Holland!
Hey Dave, always so great to see you flying those old aircraft. Well Done!
Living the dream man. I love hurricanes
Thanks. It's a wonderful aircraft for sure, and our restoration seems to be top-notch based on the many flights of our 2023 season.
Currently it's Lead of Victory Flight, a 3-ship of Hurri-Spit-Mustang.
Amazing!
Awesome thanks so much.I have an eflite hurricane which is so stable in flight that I can understand the reference to it being a perfect gun platform when going for the kill. So positive in control input.
Simply awesome Mr Hadfield
excellent, thank you Dave for sharing with us all.
These are amazing, thanks so much for sharing these videos.
Your in cockpit flying episodes are so awesome Dave
Brilliant video. 👍👍
Once again a beautiful video with fine filming and words ..thanks.
Brilliant!! thx a lot for your videos! Greetings from France ^^
Bonsoir!
Thank you for sharing these moments and feelings of flying Warbirds
Great video. I thoroughly enjoyed this flight. I wish I owned the Hurricane. Thanks for posting.
Can you imagine in 1940 an exhausted 20 year old pilot with very few hours on his book somewhere in Kent scrambling to to the sound of a bell in an aircraft that has just been delivered as a repair. Full of fear and adreninaline many died because of human error.
"The Sky Below, The Earth Above." That was quite a ride - my stomach felt a couple of queasy moments, watching on my big screen. LOL And my OCD wants to deburr the holes on the starboard canopy frame. Thanks for the flight!
Really enjoyable to watch from the "Pilot eye" view. The info sound over of what you are actually doing as well adds very much to the vid and gives a great insight as to not only the flying aspect but the overall awareness of watching the varied systems. I do realise that the aircraft is no longer in service pers se, but the cockpit almost looks naked without the gun sight. Presumably, in the event of, god forbid an emergency, it is preferable not to have something extra to collide with.!
Exactly. It was in place when I arrived there to do the first-flight, and I had them remove it.
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Makes you wonder how WW2 pilots did all this and fight in the air at the same time. Great video.
The ground crews did all the pre flight checks, the aircraft were kept ready to go, at a moment's notice, engines run up and warmed.
Mixture rich is fully back? There’s a gotcha!
Yep. It evolved from the Gipsy in the ubiquitous everpresent Moths, which do not restrict fuel to achieve a Lean mixture, but add air instead -- and the movement of that lever is aft.
Thank you so much. This made my Sunday morning. A dream to fly the Hurricane. Awesome aircraft. P.S. Do you have a video with the P-40?
Informative and entertaining as always Dave, your manner suits the subject very well. Would you mind expanding on a comment at about 8:20 regarding the rudder bar for run up: "Move the rudder bar to the position where the braking is maximum for each wheel"? Are you referring to adjustment of the rudder bar? Probably the meaning is obvious to others but I've somehow missed the point! Regardless thanks for the video.
Sure. When you think you have the rudder bar in the middle, and expect that the brake pressure will be equal to each wheel, usually it isn't. The fussy little foo-foo valve within that very complicated air-diverting arrangement often ports a little more air to one side than the other even though you could swear you've got your feet nice and even. During my first-flight in a Hurricane IV many years ago I advanced the throttle for the run-up and the aeroplane pivoted 90 degrees. Thus I've learned to squeeze the hand-lever, then look down at the brake-pressure gauge, and adjust my feet so that the two outer needles are even. Then, I lock my feet in that position and carry on with the runup.
The Spitfire is the same.
And that's one of the reasons we don't brake at high speed in any aircraft with that braking system. We let it roll, then brake when we're slow; when a groundloop is more easily dealt with.
@@davehadfield5906 Right that makes sense now! Thanks for the extra info and keep up the good work. Much appreciated.
Great video! Thanks for making it and showing off the delightful Hurricane.
Quick question ... why isn't there some means (eg, mirror or (nowadays) camera/screen) to aid forward visibility in taildraggers? For example, something like a modern car "dashcam" that replaces the rearview mirror and provides (switchable) forward and rear views.
You'd be one step behind, one step too late.
In actual fact, it's your body that reacts to a swerve, not your brain -- exactly like a bicycle.
You wonder how Douglas Bader got in this fight with two tin legs ?😊
He must have appreciated the Spitfire's side-cockpit door later, when he checked-out on that aeroplane.
Hi great video. If you turn these ww2 fighters at max G on turn performance is it easy to stall a wing and depart? It seems you fly other fighters so is it common for a wing to stall in a tight turn? Thanks Subbed 😊
The stall behavior is different from airplane to airplane. The Mustang flicks (departs) without much warning. The Hurri and the P-40 give you quite a bit of warning via airframe buffet. The Spit tends to simply mush straight ahead -- all assuming you have the ball in the center. If the ball is displaced they will flick in the opposite direction.
Beautiful video! Beautiful airplane! Is it the engine torque or rotation that makes right hand rolls less natural than left hand rolls? (I'm not a pilot.) Thanks.
Partly, yes, but it's also that your right hand is on the stick, and you can exert more strength pushing to the left, than pulling to the right.
@@davehadfield5906 Thanks for the explanation. Love the Hurricane!
Beautiful airplane…..is that your brother Chris on the intro music?
Thanks, that's me -- written and performed.
@@davehadfield5906 apologies! I didn’t know you were both also talented musicians!
The gear/flap lever looks like something from a ferrari. I wonder how it works.... one lever controls gear up/down flap up/down? How easy to cock up and raise gear instead of flaps?
Every single pilot who has sat in that seat has had the same thought.
you know looking at all the pre checks that Dave has to do , how in the hell did they do all that on a scamble ?? and get airbourne in 2 mins or whatever it was ?? the mind boogles !!!
Read the "Remarks" section at the top. I get asked that many times, so I've addressed it there.
@@davehadfield5906 Thank you Dave !!!!!!!!!!!
My pleasure. I once tried to start a Cornell with the mixture in Lean, in front of 2000 people.
Checklists are great.
They had a whole ground crew to help, and they weren't so fussed about keeping wear and tear to a minimum during wartime! Plus the pilots were very young.
Awesome!!