Does the Hurricane catch fire?

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Originally Posted by Moggy

That's right, 1 in each wing and the gravity tank in front of the pilot.

I'm reading a book about the Hurricane at the moment, 1 of pilots said that he reckoned most of the cockpit fires were caused by the wing tanks as opposed to the widely held belief that is was the gravity tank which caused cockpit fires.

I'll dig out the quote later.

I remember reading something along those lines too in "Gun Button To Fire".

Some of the pilots used to fly with the cockpit open for better SA but soon stopped when they discovered that an open canopy caused wing tank fire to be drawn into and through the cockpit - through the open structure between the fuselage and the wing. For this reason, opening the canopy to bail out was a risky moment as a sudden surge of flame could rip through the cockpit as a result.