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Tim McLelland | 336 pages | 01 Jan 2009 | Crecy Publishing | 9780859791236 | English | Cheshire, Introducing the Hawker Hunter Timepiece

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Hawkers worked on a number of designs for jet fighters after the war and the Hunter would follow on from the Sea Hawk via another design, the P. Basically a swept-wing Sea Hawk, the P. One such was one born from specification F. To be armed with four 30mm The Hawker Hunter and powered by the then-new axial flow turbojet, three prototypes were to be built, two using the Rolls Royce AJ. The cannon were to be in a single unit complete with ammo, enabling quick re-arming by simply winching the pack down and replacing it with another. Detailed design began in late but it was not until early that Hawkers were ready to proceed with constructing a prototype. Receiving an order forsplit equally between Sapphire and Avon powered aircraft, construction of the prototype began and by early the aircraft was ready for ground tests. Neville Duke, Hawker's chief test pilot, began taxiing trials at Boscombe Down and the first flight of the P. After a number of flights out of Boscombe, the The Hawker Hunter returned to Hawker's home airfield at Dunsfold where development flying began in earnest. September saw the aircraft's appearance at the Farnborough SBAC show, and in April Duke took the aircraft through the much The Hawker Hunter 'sound barrier' for the first time. With two more prototypes joining WB, the project became a 'super priority' one with production accordingly accelerated. The first production F. Like Supermarine's troublesome Swiftproblems began to arise. The use of the flaps as airbrakes turned out to cause a severe nose-down pitching at high speeds, and after much work a simple hinged brake was fitted to the fuselage underside. However even this was troublesome and had to be disabled when the was down. Cannon firing was restricted to low altitudes because exhaust gas from them could cause the engine to flame out. The Sapphire engined variant, the F. Another cannon problem was that of spent links being ejected and tumbling along the lower fuselage causing much damage. Bulbous link collectors were fitted from the F. These were known as The Hawker Hunter after a well-endowed pin-up girl of the time! The Hunter F. The F. Strangely the Sapphire-engined F. Both variants were also short on fuel, something Hawkers were looking at with some concern. With gun-firing and range issues, both the F. While work on the F. With the increased fuel load, The Hawker Hunter pilots of 54 Squadron began competing with each other to see how long a Hunter could stay airborne, and the record got to 1 hour and 25 minutes before the CO stopped the competition - that particular pilot having landed with dry fuel tanks, taking things a little too far - the previous year a pilot had been killed after The Hawker Hunter out of fuel in an F. Despite the poor fuel load of the Hunter, no inflight refuelling capability was ever added, though it could have greatly benefited from this - once again the UK government's bean counters handicapped a UK aircraft for no The Hawker Hunter reason. No less than 19 squadrons operated the Hunter inby which time the F. This variant was higher-powered and one of the problems this caused was a pitch-up at high speeds, not unlike the Swift. This was cured by extending the leading edges of the outer portion of the wing, giving the dog- toothed look of later variants. With better performance at altitude, the Hunter was now able to hold its own with most of its contemporaries and could intercept such as the B and Canberra - but the V-bombers were entering service and these could climb above a Hunter's reach. The Black Arrows amazed the aviation world in by looping 22 Hunters in formation at Farnborough - a feat never equalled or beaten since. A two-seat trainer variant, designed as a private venture, was based on the F. The first T. While generally similar to the single seaters, the cannon pack was deleted and replaced with a single 30mm cannon fitted to the starboard side. The T. A brake parachute was first fitted to the T. Some twin-seat Hunters entered service with the , being fitted with arrestor hooks for airfield use only and designated as T. The Hunter settled The Hawker Hunter for the next five years as the RAF's foremost air defence and ground , and Hawker completed their one-off F. This was actually the original prototype with a new sharp nose, canopy, Avon RA. Painted in a brilliant red colour scheme, the aircraft was then used by Neville Duke to set a number of records, including the World Absolute Speed Record on 7th September - achieving a speed of Despite this no further work was carried out on producing a production version of the F. However, bythe fully supersonic missile-armed Lightning was entering service and the Hunter's RAF day fighter role was at an end. The Blue Diamonds briefly teamed up with the upstart Lightnings of The Hawker Hunter Squadron to put on what must have been a truly awe-inspiring performance at the Farnborough show. From now on the Hunter's job would primarily be that of ground attack, and the next variant was accordingly the FGA. With further strengthened wings, provision for greater external fuel carriage first tested by Hawkers back on the F. The FGA. Further action for the Hunter came in attacks against dissident tribes and rebels in Aden, and attacks against Indonesian terrorists in Borneo. In it was the RAF's 50th birthday, yet the top brass did not se fit to mark this with any flypast, choosing instead for mere parades on the ground. Many RAF personnel were less than impressed and one Flt Lt Alan Pollock of 1 F Squadron decided to mark the occasion in style - first with toilet-roll bombing missions against rival squadrons, and then on April 5th, while suffering from the beginnings of pneumonia which no doubt had some affect on his decision making processes, he flew his Hunter over London and at the last second decided The Hawker Hunter fly under the top span of Tower Bridge! Knowing of the consequences of his The Hawker Hunter trip, he proceeded to beat up several airfields and landed to meet his fate. It would be the end of his RAF career he went on to run a successful exporting companywith political influences making sure he was treated incredibly unfairly - thrown out of the RAF with no right to appeal, no court martial at which he could present his case, medical evidence ignored, unable to meet with his superiors, etc. It took until for his case to be fully heard, and only then was he exonerated. Coincidentally, that same year the Hunter he had flown XF, which had been sold to the Chilean Air Force was written off in an The Hawker Hunter. Next up was the FR. The FR. The GA. By the FGA. As late asa new variant arrived - the T. This was a T. A small number of T. But all this is just the use by the UK - which doesn't even begin to compare with its use by foreign air forces. Hawker had created perhaps one of the UK's greatest defence export successes - no less than 19 countries operated the Hunter, with production under licence being The Hawker Hunter out in Holland and Belgium. The Dutch operated F. Belgium also operated F. Belgium retired the Hunter inthough many were retired in Replaced by the F in Dutch and Belgian service, as many of the Belgian examples had retired very early, they were in excellent condition and Hawker bought many back to sell once more. Sweden operated the Sidewinder-equipped The Hawker Hunter. Denmark operated the F. proved to be a more long-lived Hunter operator, flying their F. Most famous The Hawker Hunter the Swiss Hunters were those of the national aerobatic team, the Patrouille de Suisse. Many of the team's aircraft are still flying in private hands now. India made extensive use of the Hunter F. Participating in the and conflicts with Pakistan, the Hunter proved to be a formidable ground attack aircraft and took a heavy toll of Pakistani armour. However in the air to air role the Hunter did not come The Hawker Hunter too well in combat with Pakistani Sabres, with 8 being lost in the war compared to 6 Sabres being shot down by Hunters. Pakistani pilots were lucky in that most of the Hunters they encountered were bomb-laden and operating at extreme range, and much easier prey as a result - especially when Sidewinder AAMs were employed by the Sabres. When encountering Hunters configured for The Hawker Hunter defence, they did not do so The Hawker Hunter but wisely dragged Hunters into low level, low speed turning dogfights, where the Hunter's performance was closest to the Sabre, instead The Hawker Hunter engaging at higher level where the Hunter would have been far superior. A single Pakistani F finding itself in combat with a Hunter eventually had to disengage The Hawker Hunter the pilot found himself unable to turn with the Hunter. In the war the Sabres did not do so well. While six Hunters were lost, eight possibly nine Sabres were claimed by Indian Hunters Pakistani sources accepting fewer losses but not by any great margin. A further three Hunters were lost to MiGs and four to Mirages - while some have doubted the quality of the Indian pilots' air-to-air training, the Hunters were once again largely configured for ground attack and faced with missile attacks; to have done as well as they did in the circumstances is an indication that good training was not something the Indians were lacking! Moving to The Hawker Hunter Middle East, Hunters were operated by a number of air forces. The Hawker Hunter Dhabi had the FGA. Qatar had the The Hawker Hunter. Saudi Arabia operated a small number of F. Kuwait had the FGA. operated the F. Jordan operated F. The few survivors of Israeli attacks were finally replaced by F-5s. Oman ended up with around 30 Hunters, ex-RAF, ex-Kuwaiti and ex-Omani examples among those operated from to the mid s, being replaced by Jaguars. The Hawker Hunter operated the Hunter, one The Hawker Hunter its unfortunate uses being the dropping of poison gas on The Hawker Hunter civilians. South America also had a couple of Hunter users, these being Peru F. Zimbabwe's Air Force's remaining Hunters are now suspected to be all grounded by lack The Hawker Hunter spares. However inthe Hunter came back into UK military use when a pair were returned to the military register for defence simulation and trials work. The Lebanese Air Force had stopped flying their remaining Hunters bybut returned a small number to service in So it seems the Hunter finally beat the Canberra's record of 50 years in active service! Needless to say many also fly in civilian hands and have been regular airshow performers. Sadly in the UK, the Hunter's days in civilian hands seem to have come to an end due to the bizarre CAA grounding of the type after the Shoreham Airshow disaster, where a Hunter crashed outside the show venue causing multiple fatalities on the road. Thunder & Lightnings - Hawker Hunter - History

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