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Finnish Hurricane

Started by TomZ, October 05, 2020, 10:59:48 AM

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McColm


perttime

Quote from: Snowtrooper on October 06, 2020, 02:28:52 PM
Quote from: perttime on October 06, 2020, 07:14:00 AM
One or another of the British historical aviation magazines mentioned recently, that (during BoB?) it took much fewer man-hours to repair an aircraft, than to build a new one.
Surely you meant that it took fewer hours to build one than repair one?

... The man-hours required to refurbish a supposedly flyable DB-3 (as a case example) bought from German war booty stocks (let alone a locally shot down one) to combat-ready condition were much more than those required to build a brand new Blenheim Mk. I....
It is one thing to refurbish an unknown type - and another to repair a damaged Bf 109 or Brewster.

dumaniac

Looks like the He100 or He112, depending on your reference material

buzzbomb