Where can I get a flight on a Hurrican plane for my husband's birthday?

Answer 1

If you mean a Hawker Hurricane fighter from World War 2 you can't as it's a single-seat airplane. Hurricane's are very rare as warbirds go and are treated like rare, aeronautical jewels as there are less than ten of them currently flying worldwide.

The more famous Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire exists, happily, in higher numbers, with approximately fifty of them restored to airworthy condition with more being restored; but again, the majority are single-seaters. The two-seat TR.9 version is exceedingly rare, and I don't know of any that offer rides to the public.

You can, however, buy flight time in perhaps the greatest fighter of World War 2, if not of all time -- the North American Aviation P-51D Mustang. Stallion-51 Corporation of Kissimmee, Florida, operates three dual-control TF-51D's (the trainer version of the P-51) and you can buy flights of various lengths on them from half-an-hour long or longer, right up to a complete checkout and instruction programme for pilots buying a P-51 for themselves. And a P-51 offers somewhat higher performance than a Hurricane (the Hurricane was a mid-1930's design that still incorporated steel-tube and fabric elements found in earlier fighters; the Mustang was a much sleeker, more modern aircraft designed in 1940 and found great success escorting long range bombing missions to Berlin and Tokyo). The Mustang is also the most abundant among the surviving World War 2 fighters with some 150 airworthy examples around today, and that's mainly because it is such an excellent aircraft and survived the mass scrappings following WW2 by serving for several years in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard as well as in the air forces of several countries around the world. Also, the Mustang is powered by the same liquid-cooled, Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12 engine that powered the Hurri, albeit a later and more powerful version of it.

Now if by "getting a ride in a Hurricane plane" you mean the aircraft used to penetrate storms, it's not very likely. People allowed on those flights are usually scientists, military types, or the occasional journalist or film crew, but I suppose you could try contacting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N.O.A.A) to see what they say.

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Answer 2

You would find it very hard as there was never a 2 seat hurricane built at all, there are a number of spitifres flying and the most famous mk9 two seater is owned and flown by carolyn grace, if you search on yahoo for grace's spitfire it will appear however it is expensive at the last time i checked it costs about £5000 an hr to operate a spitfire, and i disagree with the view the mustang was the greates fighter of wwII the spitfire was in production longer and was improved beyond all recognition both aircraft are superb but where designed for different purposes, i dont know of any two seat mustangs in this country, Grace's spitfire is normally kept at duxford so you could use the imperial wasr museum website as well

Answer 3

Call the National Weather Service and beg. They will then refer you to the Coast Guard where once again you beg and bother and beg and bother and fill out some forms and bother and beg and bother and fill out some more forms. I'm sure you'll get a seat on one by the turn of the decade.

Answer 4

Try Duxford Aerodrome near Cambridge, they have a series of rebuilt wartime aircraft all too ready to show them off

Answer 5

Try contacting these guys - they've apparently done a two-seater and may be able to put you in touch with whoever owns it.

I imagine it'll be VERY expensive!

Good luck.