[Graham Boak]

Strictly, the A/B patters were suppoed to be appropriate to the first in the batch - usually this was an odd serial being A. (I don't know of any exceptions in the Hurricane runs, but haven't checked it.)

Strictly, Dope is applied to fabric to tighten it, and not to the paint, but on fabric covered aircraft the cellulose-based paints were commonly known as dopes.

Hurricanes began with Aluminium undersides, but soon changed to black and white undersides. Initially this was just the outer wing panels, but this applied to only one batch prewar. The standard was half black and half white, divided down the underside of the aircraft, but some (many?) examples retained Aluminium under the nose and under the rear fuselage.