What did the Blenheim do in the battle of britain? I've never heard or read much about it, but it keeps appearing all the time in sims. It's like a 'no name' brand plane to me almost.
The Hurricanes have their good and bad parts, like any other planes. As long as you have something on your opponent's plane that you can use against him, it's not at all so hopeless (been reading and soaking up too much "In Pursuit", a book about virtual air combat, heh heh). Hurricane turns amazingly well, you will -always- lose the 109's if they ever get behind. Speed and roll rate is different, and the inability of the merlin to accept negative G-forces. Snap rolls work in the Hurricane, with no ill effects to the engine. It was difficult at first for me but now I think it's the most awesome maneuver to employ in slow rolling planes (Can get a 110G, P38 and Ju-88 to do faster-than-Fw-190 rollrates if you give me two seconds). The many machine guns on the Hurricane are also the easiest thing of any plane to shoot into the canopy or cooling of a 109 and kill the bastard pilot - go for high deflection snap shots, easy to pull off if you can just drag your sights in their path. The high RPM, so many bullets, covering such a large area, constantly, whenever thumbing the trigger. Not sooo amazing from behind though
