[DFG]

Full title "Iconic Hurricane fighter that crash-landed on Dunkirk beach during WW2 takes to the skies again 77 years on after a £2million restoration"

[Yo-Yo]

Data plate restoration?

[dblshot]

Absolutely beautiful job!

[Azeem]

I would go visit Chino airport where they would do the same restoration to WWII planes pulled off the Pacific ocean.

[headstamp 2]

That’s pronounced “Hurricin”

[rey]

Hard to imagine that much of this restoration included the original plane considering the crash and being buried in salt water for so long. Still way cool.

[RayChuang88]

The Hurricane was a good fighter but had one problem: its top speed was no match for the Bf 109E series. But it was an excellent gun platform and proved to be a great ground attack fighter until replaced by the LF versions of the Spitfire and Hawker Typhoon (once Hawker fixed the weak tail structure problem) from middle 1942 on.

[BlueLancer]

"An iconic Second World War fighter aircraft which crash landed as it tried to rescue Allied troops..."

This must have been a specially-designed troop-carrying Hurricane to be trying to rescue the soldiers at Dunkirk. It brings about a picture of strapping soldiers to the wings ...