They did replace the fabric wings with aluminium ones & introduced them in 1939, but the rest of the plane was still fabric-over-tubes.
Don’t forget, the Hurricane did fantastic service after the Battle of Britain, in the North African Desert and the Far East, in ground attack roles to which it seemed to take to quite nicely. When there’s some AK tanks to shoot up, bombs, rockets or twin 40mm cannon can’t be all that bad! 
Despite being very much a late 1930’s-tech aircraft, the Hurricane found good trade right up to the end of the war - although obviously even their “near-retirement” role of ground attack would be taken up by Typhoon’s and so on as time progressed. While in the European theatre it was very much outdated quickly, in the Desert or Far East perhaps there are sound reasons why it soldiered on as long as it did. Having seen photos of how aircraft were maintained in North Africa, I imagine the somewhat “basic” Hurricane probably had advantages over even it’s more glamarous contemporary, the Spitfire. Sometimes, dare I say it, primitive construction can lend an aircraft a longer lease of life than it otherwise may have enjoyed.
During the Battle of Britain, the Hurricanes would take care of the lower flying German bombers, while the Spitfires would attack the higher flying and faster fighter escort.
Jan
romania 
i think the iar was a damn good fighter.
Yes it is true that the Hurricane shot down more planes, but the Spitfire was more effective. The Spitfire was the fastest plane in the sky during the BoB, reaching a speed of 362mph at 19,000ft. It climbed better and had better visibility than the ME Bf109.
The Hurricane was easier and less costly to mass produce. The Hurricanes designer Sidney Camm, took the Fury biplane and bassically removed the top wing. Thus it became cheaper to produce since Britain was used to producing biplanes. The Spitfire was allot more complicated. And in the early stages it caused a few production problems.
Hurricanes took about 2/3 of all the kills during BoB but the Me Bf109 was a much better fighter than the Hurricane, and so the Hurricane concentrated on slower moving bombers. The Spitfire went directly against the fighters.
German fighter ace during the BoB was asked by Goering what was needed for Germany to win the battle. He replied “Spitfires”
Great Britain hands down… GO MKII SPITFIRES, the plane its self was among the best but the man behind the plane is what counts, the British RAF was among the best trained for their specialized planes :o
do you have the source? I’ve never heard of that
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Neither had I. I believe the only allied jet that saw combat before the end of the war was the British Meteor.