Hawker Hurricane MK.1

Hawker Hurricane MK I designed by Brian Taylor

Started Research 04/08/2025
Electric Powered: Hawker Hurricane M.K. I (Late Production Version)

I purchased the short kit from sarik hobbies for Brian's Hawker Hurricane in 1/6.8 scale with a wingspan of 70". I have Brian's drawings from around 1986 that were released by Radio Control Modeller, plan No. R.M. 87. The drawings provided by sarik hobbies appears to me a more updated version but I don't have them in PDF so I will use the original set from RCM. I enlarged the plans using Photoshop to create this elegant bird in a true 1/6^th scale. The Hawker Hurricane fighter has a wingspan of 40 feet, which when reduced to 1/6^th scale, builds into an impressive wingspan of 80 inches. Changes will be made to incorporate a three-piece wing to make transporting easy. 90% of the plane is scratch built by me, this includes all the wood material will be hand cut from my patterns. The fiberglass cowling and cockpit canopy will be made by me as well along with many other scale items.

Download the plans for free!
Brian Taylor's Hawker Hurricane Plans-PDF

My research has lead me to pilot officer, Arthur "Taffy" Clowes of No.1 Squadron based in Wittering, Huntingdonshire (England) 1 October 1940. [The Battle of Britain] 
Ftl. Clowes is credited with the shooting down of ten aircraft, one of which was shared with other pilots. A share in the destruction of one additional aircraft was unconfirmed. He is also credited with three aircraft probably destroyed and two damaged. He developed liver cancer and was hospitalized at RAF Hospital Ely, in Ely. He died there on 7 December 1949 and was buried at Brampton

July 6, 2025

Started construction with the tail fin. After verifying that my drawings were matching the
3-View I'm using, I started to trace the plans so I could transfer the patterns to my balsa sheets. 

Adding in some missing detail on my tracing paper.

1/16th balsa sheeting for the fin half's cut and given the basic shape. My goal is to keep the tail section as light as possible so I will end up cutting a lot of the balsa sheets away once the ribs and other detail have been added.

Laying out the rib placement to match the 3-view drawings. This original drawing sets has extra ribs for strength and then some scale rib locations as well. I'm going to to go with the scale rib locations only to help keep the weight down.

Once I finished building the two half's I used 5 minute epoxy to glue them together. Now I need to start shaping the ribs for the proper look and add the leading edge sheet.