"Chris Hogg" wrote in message
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On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 08:24:53 +0100, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote:

Well, often the carrying of weapons impacts on weight and drag and that
impacts on endurance or in the air time. As for convergence, often they did
not bother about that from what I was told, since the basic need was to
disable the craft they were firing at and as long as all the bullets went
in somewhere you get a lot more chance of hitting something vital.
I believe Hurricanes had a better range than Spitfires, but spitfires were
faster and more agile.
Brian

My understanding is that although the Spitfire is what people first
think about for UK WW2 fighter aircraft, in fact the Hurricane was
responsible for more 'kills'.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...e-plane-247944


In theory Hurricanes targeted bombers while Spitfires targeted
the accompanying fighters. The 60% kill figure for Hurricanes probably
reflects the number of bombers brought down, as against the number
of fighters brought down. Five minutes googling would possibly
settle this either way.


michael adams

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