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Re: E-bay founds - Hurricane, probably France 1940
I don't think that this one is a Hurricane. Although the prop/spinner looks to be DH (at least as opposed to Rotol), we have a very French-looking set of exhausts - certainly nothing like a Hurricane's Merlin - and a top cowling with gun blast tubes. Further, the frames of the windshield look too far spaced to be Hurricane, and the rudder lacks the horn balance at the top. The original poster suggests a Morane, but I'm pretty sure it isn't that, from the evidence of the cowling. Could it be a D520? I'm not convinced.
On the other hand, it does look rather a lot like a Yak 1. That the wings seem to have burnt to ash may be additional evidence. Note also the fitting for a Hucks starter in the tip of the spinner.
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