The design of the Hurricane was based very much on the technology that had existed previously, insofar as the aircraft used many of the elements of the previous Hawker Hart and Fury. Basically the E34/36 (or Hurricane as it was to become), was the Fury, with the upper wing removed and its area added to the lower one, an enclosed canopy and the spatted wheels replaced with inward retracting examples. To be fair this is too simple a look at the F.34/36 design, but the basic idea is there as the Hawker K34/36 used a Warren truss construction, with swaged wire bracing and fabric covering. The fuselage used tour stainless steel longerons, with steel panels and duralumin tubes that were fixed with plates and bolts. The use of such a structure may seem old fashioned when compared to the other F. 36/34 competitor (the Spitfire), but this extremely strong, yet lightweight, construction was to serve the type well during the early stages of World War II.
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