Hawker Hurricane Aerobatics

Aerobatics in a Hawker Hurricane XII; cockpit view and commentary by Dave Hadfield. These flights occurred during the test-flights of the newly-restored aircraft in 2022. Song “The Hurricane“ (c)2023 by Dave Hadfield Aircraft is based at CYND, within the Mike Potter Aircraft Collection, and operated in association with Vintage Wings of Canada. Note about Checklists: There are always comments about how long it takes to go through the checklists and get the thing airborne. In the B-of-B the ground crews would have started the engines and done the mag checks etc before sunrise. As soon as the pilots appeared on the airfield they’d go to their aeroplane, talk to the crew about it, check that all the switches and levers were in the right position for a Scramble, and -- very important! -- arrange the parachute and harness “just-so“ for a quick strap-in-and-go; and brief the ground crew about exactly how they were going to coordinate the startup and launch. BUT... I fly many different aircraft types, our ground crew have many different duties, and we have no time-imperative. So we use checklists -- which have been shown many times to reduce the “oh-crap-forgot-that“ mistakes.