Originally Posted by
uxb99
Does that make the Hurricane a lot harder to restore than the Spitfire?
Yes, very much so.
While the stress skin all metal construction of the Spitfire meant that in 1939/40 it was slower to build, and harder to BDR in the field as it was new tech of the day, compared to the more traditional construction of the Hurricane, today the opposite is true, and Hurricane restoration is very labour time consuming, so much more expensive to restore, as that technology had largely disappeared when Hawker Restorations started up their Hurricane 'production line' 30+ years ago.