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The Hawker Hurricane was the first fighter monoplane to join the Royal Air Force and the first combat aircraft adopted by that arm capable of exceeding 300 mph in level flight.

Hawker Hurricane
Sydney Camm, an aircraft designer working for the Hawker Company, began work on the Hawker Hurricane in 1934. Like Reginald J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire Mk.

Hawker Hurricane
The Hawker Hurricane was England's main monoplane fighter when World War II began. Its armament of eight machine guns and speed of 483 km/h (300 mph) ...

Hurricane. (1) A wind of "Force 12" (e.g. maximum) on the Beaufort Scale of wind force. Rarely experienced except in tropical revolving storms or tornadoes. Velocity of 75+ m.p.h.
(2) The name given in the West Indies to tropical revolving storms.

Hawker Hurricane with canopy slid to rear.
An A-10 Thunderbolt II with painted "false canopy" underneath the front of the plane behind the GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon.
The low drag canopy of an Extra 300 aerobatic light aircraft.

Stake-driven tiedowns such as depicted above will almost invariably pull out when the ground becomes soaked from torrential rains which accompany hurricanes and some thunderstorms.

In the weeks following hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, however, the crack spread widened dramatically when major oil supply disruptions prompted refiners to focus their operations on producing gasoline.

An International SIGMET for volcanic ash will last up to 12 hours, for hurricanes up to 6 hours, and for all other metrological events requiring a SIGMET up to 4 hours. These are designated with one letter from 'A' to 'M'.

It is built on the roadbed and piers that originally supported a stretch of the Florida East Coast Railroad--a project abandoned after the hurricane of 1935. Follow the highway, keeping it right under your nose. It bears about 220 degrees along here.

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