Spitfire why so popular??

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Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

its quite simple - if the hurricane was THAT obsolete and THAT bad at everything like you seem to say, then why produce it until wars end??

dont say because it was cheap and easy!!

if it was so bad then why not produce more spifires, then cancel the hurricanes and concentrate on typhoon/tempest instead.

You know your stuff i'll give you that, but you seem to argue alot against the hurricane.

They did cancel it before wars end, in 1944. They did produce more Spits, allot more and production was moved to Typhoons and Tempests.

In Europe the RAF had mostly phased them out by 1943. By 1944 most by that time had been scrapped (older models), given to Russia, shipped to the far east or used in secondary roles like mail runners. By the time of d-day no Hurricanes were being used in the RAF 2nd TAF in primary roles.