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<blockquote data-quote="Justo Miranda" data-source="post: 378234" data-attributes="member: 960"><blockquote data-quote="J.A.W." data-source="post: 217225" data-attributes="member: 10576"><p>Ironic that the Hurricane specified to F.37/35 - Day/night fighter..</p><p></p><p>..was rejected in favour of the W. Whirlwind as cannon armed contender,</p><p>- to be revisited as Hawker project P.1002 (developed as Mk IIC),</p><p>& hurriedly put in to service as a prototype in the B.o.B., - while the W.W. was kept out..</p></blockquote><p>The F.37/35 proposal was issued to install four 20 mm wing-mounted Oerlikon FF cannons in the <em>Hurricane</em> Mk.I (V7360) the prototype was flight tested at Langley in July 1940, but the project was rejected on 23 April 1936 in favour of the Westland <em>Whirlwind,</em> a twin engine fighter faster than the <em>Spitfire Mk.II, Hurricane </em>Mk.I and Bf 109 E at medium and low level, without adaptation problems to the early Hispano Mk.I drum feed version, with 60-rounds magazine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Justo Miranda, post: 378234, member: 960"] [QUOTE="J.A.W., post: 217225, member: 10576"] Ironic that the Hurricane specified to F.37/35 - Day/night fighter.. ..was rejected in favour of the W. Whirlwind as cannon armed contender, - to be revisited as Hawker project P.1002 (developed as Mk IIC), & hurriedly put in to service as a prototype in the B.o.B., - while the W.W. was kept out.. [/QUOTE] The F.37/35 proposal was issued to install four 20 mm wing-mounted Oerlikon FF cannons in the [I]Hurricane[/I] Mk.I (V7360) the prototype was flight tested at Langley in July 1940, but the project was rejected on 23 April 1936 in favour of the Westland [I]Whirlwind,[/I] a twin engine fighter faster than the [I]Spitfire Mk.II, Hurricane [/I]Mk.I and Bf 109 E at medium and low level, without adaptation problems to the early Hispano Mk.I drum feed version, with 60-rounds magazine. [/QUOTE]
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