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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: Leo on November 22, 2007, 10:12:38 PM

Title: Engine switch in Hurricane
Post by: Leo on November 22, 2007, 10:12:38 PM

I have read somewhere that the Jugoslav airforce once replaced a Rolls Royce engine with a Daimler Benz and that the performance of the Hurricane was improved.  If that is true, I wonder if the same result would have occurred had a DB engine been substituted for an RR in a Spitfire?  If that would be so, woulld it logically follow that DB engined 109's would out perform Spitfires I  and II?

Title: Re: Engine switch in Hurricane
Post by: mfg495 on November 25, 2007, 05:28:42 PM

Here you go leo

image 1 Spitfire V under evaluation with the DB 601 engine

see - http://www.unrealaircraft.com/hybrid/spitfire.php

image 2 Zmaj-built Hurricane 1 of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force (JKRV), at Zemun, April 1941

see - http://www.unrealaircraft.com/hybrid/hurricane.php

Title: Re: Engine switch in Hurricane
Post by: mfg495 on November 25, 2007, 06:04:08 PM

Also just found this site

http://www.k5083.mistral.co.uk/PROJECTS.HTM

all about the Hawker Hurricane  :-ok

Title: Re: Engine switch in Hurricane
Post by: No.1 on November 25, 2007, 09:11:46 PM

One sample of Hurricane was converted to DB engine. Reason is the problem with delivery on RR engines for licence manufacture in Yugoslavia and some stock of DB engines was available in the moment.

Title: Re: Engine switch in Hurricane
Post by: Leo on December 01, 2007, 03:16:29 AM

 :-wise

Thanks for the info and the links.  You guys are great.