Hawker Hurricane vs Spitfire: The Rival That Did the Work | WWII Aviation History

In 1934, a man in a drawing office in Kingston upon Thames was working on a fighter that nobody had ordered yet. His name was Sydney Camm, and across the south of England another designer, R. J. Mitchell, was chasing the same problem with a very different answer: the Spitfire. A 9-minute documentary of the Hawker Hurricane, told as a rivalry — two designers, two fighters, one that became the most famous aircraft in Britain and one that did most of the work in the summer of 1940. First flight at Brooklands on 6 November 1935, Hawker's gamble to tool up for a thousand before anyone had ordered one, Sqn Ldr Gillan's Edinburgh–Northolt dash in 48 minutes (and the tailwind the newspapers forgot), why a frame of steel tubes, wooden formers and doped linen could be built fast and patched on the airfield, the Battle of Britain, Malta, Canada's "Queen of the Hurricanes", the catapult-launched Hurricats, and the last Hurricane built in July 1944 — "The Last of the Many" — still flying today. 🎧 One more hour with the Hurricane — cinematic music on our sister channel WW2 Aviation Music Chapters 0:00 Sydney Camm and the fighter nobody had ordered 1:31 The drawing board: Camm and Mitchell 2:28 Airborne: Brooklands, 6 November 1935 3:36 Edinburgh to Northolt in 48 minutes 4:12 How they were built: tubes, wood and linen 5:31 Summer 1940: Hurricane and Spitfire 6:42 Far from home: Malta, Canada and the Hurricats 8:00 The Last of the Many 8:11 Back to Sydney Camm: the Hunter and the P.1127 9:05 Still flying today 9:17 One more hour with the Hurricane Hurricane or Spitfire — which one would you have wanted to fly in 1940? Tell me in the comments. The aircraft still stand. Their stories don't end here.