With all due love and respect to the Spitfire (including my personal experience sitting in the cockpit of one), the numbers don’t lie. Winner: Hawker Hurricane.
The company primarily manufactured railway boxcars but now the Allies) needed Hawker Hurricane airplanes and quickly. The daunting task fell to Elsie MacGill. The 35-year-old Canadian was one of ...
In this collection of programmes, we hear from some of the battle's heroes, see the Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane fighter planes in action and discover why the Battle of Britain should always be ...