"Although the Hawker Hurricane is always viewed as the poor cousin to the Spitfire, it was responsible for over 70 percent of the kills. One of the major reasons for this was due to the fact that Hurricanes made up over two thirds of fighter numbers."

http://www.battle-of-britain.com

"However, the Hurricane was a robust, manoeuvrable aircraft capable of sustaining fearsome combat damage before write-off; and unlike the Spitfire, it was a wholly operational, go-anywhere do-anything fighter by July 1940. It is estimated that its pilots were credited with four-fifths of all enemy aircraft destroyed in the period July-October 1940."

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/hurricane.html

"In the hands of a skilled pilot, the Hurricane could achieve great success. In fact during the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940, 1.720 of them took part and had the honour of claiming 80% of enemy aircraft shot down by Fighter Command."

http://www.battleofbritain.net/0010.html


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