Editing Hawker Hurricane (section)

==Hurricane aces==
Top scoring Hurricane pilots:
* Squadron Leader [[Pat Pattle|Marmaduke "Pat" Pattle]], with 35 Hawker fighter victories (out of career 50 total, with two shared) serving with No. 80 and 33 Squadrons. All of his Hurricane kills were achieved over Greece in 1941. He was shot down and killed in the [[Battle of Athens (1941)|Battle of Athens]] on 20 April 1941.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90v0Hg0Mq90C | isbn=9780141965338 | title=Going Solo | date=2 February 2012 | publisher=Penguin UK }}</ref>
* Squadron Leader [[Douglas Bader]] was a legendary flying ace who flew Hurricanes with No. 242 Squadron during the [[Battle of Britain]]. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged. 
* Wing Commander [[Frank Reginald Carey]] claimed 28 air victories while flying Hurricanes during 1939–43.
* Squadron Leader [[William Vale|William "Cherry" Vale]] totalled 20 kills (of 30) in Greece and Syria with No. 80 Squadron.
* Czech pilot Flight Lieutenant [[Karel Kuttelwascher]] achieved all of his 18 air victories with the Hurricane, most as an intruder night fighter with No. 1 Squadron.
* Pilot Officer [[Vernon Crompton Woodward]] (33 and 213 Squadrons) was another top-scoring ace with 14 (out of 18 total, three of which are shared).
* Flying Officer [[Willie McKnight]] scored at least 17 victories in Hurricanes.
* Flight Lieutenant [[Richard P. Stevens]] claimed all of his 14.5 enemy aircraft flying the Hurricane.<ref name="Tomas p.83">Thomas 2003, p. 83.</ref>
* [[Richard John Cork|Richard "Dickie" Cork]] was the leading [[Fleet Air Arm]] Sea Hurricane ace, with nine destroyed, two shared, one probable, four damaged and seven destroyed on the ground.<ref>Thomas 2007, p. 87.</ref>
* Czech pilot [[Josef František]], flying with [[303 Polish Squadron]], shot down at least 17 enemy aircraft over southeast England during September–October 1940.
* Polish pilot [[Witold Urbanowicz]], flying with 303 Polish Squadron, had 15 confirmed kills and one probable during the Battle of Britain.
* Wing Commander [[Ian Gleed]] claimed most of his 13 victories while flying Hurricanes with [[No. 87 Squadron RAF]] from the Battle of France through the end of 1941.
* Wing Commander [[Mark Henry Brown]] scored 18 victories with No. 1 Squadron. He was the first Canadian ace of the Second World War and was killed on a strafing mission in Sicily in November 1941.
* Marshal of the Air Force [[Arjan Singh]], DFC, was a British Indian fighter pilot who was awarded the [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)|Distinguished Flying Cross]] for his flying during the Burma campaign. He went on to become the Chief of Air staff of the [[Indian Air Force]] and was given the honorary rank of Marshal of the Air Force for his leadership during the [[Indo-Pakistan war of 1965]].

Pilots of Note
* 2nd Officer [[Winifred Crossley Fair]]. ATA Pilot. First female to fly a Hawker Hurricane.
* Wing Commander [[James Brindley Nicolson]], VC, DFC. The only Battle of Britain pilot and the only pilot of RAF Fighter Command to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the Second World War.
* [[Roald Dahl]] flew a Hurricane in the Battle of Athens, which he describes in his second autobiography ''[[Going Solo]]''.