The Hurricane

The Hurricane Hurricane was easy to fly. You could get spoiled very quick because it was that easy to fly and you didn’t have to be precise like you would in a Harvard even. But it was still an operational air plane. It was going fast and it had lots of weight and it had guns. So, from that point of view, it was operational. But it was not difficult. Interviewer: It was much more powerful than a Harvard? Oh, yes. Yeah. Interviewer: You made the adjustment fairly smoothly? I think so. With glee, almost. Delight. I must say though, once...initially, once you opened that throttle, there’s a few seconds before you’re airborne. You’re off the ground. You’re gone, see. And then up, wheels up, whatever. But if you don’t keep track of where you took off from, and the thing keeps climbing, see. It’s not just wallowing along, it’s climbing, going up to three, four-thousand feet. You lose your base because in England, everything looks the same. There’s houses everywhere. Where did I come from? So you could get lost very quickly.