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80 years ago #OTD, the #BattleofBritain began.

A great moment to finally answer that famous question: which @RoyalAirForce fighter was better: the Hawker Hurricane, or the Supermarine Spitfire?

#Military #History #AvGeek
First of all: back in 1940, before the #BattleOfBritain, they already tried to answer this question in a mock battle between two squadrons of Hurricanes and Spitfires. The outcome was... undecided.

And pilots who flew both planes, praised them both. So that's utterly useless.
Just like the lavish praise of the Luftwaffe for the Spitfire was useless; that was just German propaganda.

To obscure the fact that their modern Messerschmitts Bf 109's were being downed by wood-and-linen Hurricanes, they deflected attention to the sleek, all-metal Spitfire.
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