Designed By Sydney Camm, the prototype Hurricane first flew in the summer of 1936, representing a bridge between past and present aircraft technology; it was a monoplane fighter with an enclosed cockpit and a retractable undercarriage, but in terms of construction it was essentially a monoplane version of Hawker's Fury biplane. It used the latter's warren-girder structure of metal tubes, faired by wooden frames, with fabric covering throughout initially. The first example with all-metal stressed-skin wings were delivered to the RAF on September 29,1939.
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