On 11/07/2020 08:38, Chris Hogg wrote:
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 the battle of Britain, yes, More of them, tougher, and a very stable
gun platform - spitties wings too thin and flexed under fire.

Later marks with cannon became better fighters


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