Hurricane Mk IIC cannon:drum-magazine or belt-fed?

[Graham Boak]

Yes, the same Haynes company - or at least brand name. They did the Spitfire perhaps two years ago, and followed it (I believe?) with the Bf 109. They have now released the Hurricane.

I would not say that "many" Fw 190 pilots removed the outer cannon. Indeed, there was one rather intense debate on LEMB where one poster quite vehemently denied that any such thing had been done, and that no Luftwaffe combat unit would ever have been permitted to do such a thing. Far too advanced an aerodynamic matter for the poor squaddies, apparently. I did point out that such was quite common in the RAF, and that the Luftwaffe's engineering officers were at least as competent as the RAF's, but it made little impact.

I am not going to get further drawn into the wing/fuselage armament, other than to point out that the RN's Seafires were specifically required to carry the 4-cannon for intercepting shadowers, so the reduction to two was clearly driven by more than the advantage in dogfighting. The RAF required 4 cannon for all its fighter desings (initially looking to six on the Meteor and Spitfire Mk.IV) but accepted the limitation to 2 on the Spitfire until the completely revised wing (and more power) of the Mk.20-series.