Originally Posted by
MPN11
The Radial Hurricane is bad enough. A Radial Spitfire would be an abomination! And a bet a modeller somewhere has done that!
My late uncle flew both the Spitfire and the Hurricane during the war. His view was that the Hurricane was a far more capable aeroplane, and that the only reason the Spitfire got so much more attention was because it looked so much prettier. I've had the good fortune to fly a Spitfire H.F.IXe for a very short time and, apart from the unbelievable handling (particularly the roll response) the stand out memory is looking out over that beautiful elliptical wing when rolling around The Needles at the west end of the Isle of Wight. Of all the different types I've flown, or flown in, over 40 odd years, that short flight is the one that stands out.
A radial would indeed turn it into a complete abomination.