Hunter - the most beautiful jet ever!

I really enjoy flying the Hawker Hunter. I also got the single seat Hawker Hunter that's also made by Dave Garwood.

As a cadet, I sat in this very aircraft in 1975 at RAF Valley though I recall it was significantly more dinged up than the sim version. What should be next to it on the pan is the Gnat. At the time (pre-Hawk), advanced jet training was started on the Gnat (90 hours, I think) and then progressed to the Hunter for weapons training. Except if you were over 5ft 10in (an estimate) and were wearing a bone dome, it wasn't possible to get the canopy to close on the Gnat, so all the training was done on the Hunter. In training, it was mostly a matter of clocking the flying hours, so the aircraft would fully fuel in the morning and then, usually in pairs, head into the Snowdonia mountain range to play tag at 250ft (or lower). As they say, it was a different age.

18:15 The first one was (I think) Mynydd Perfedd and the second one was Glyder Fawr. Snowdon was directly behind Glyder Fawr, just above your mouse pointer... ;)

I spotted a flight of 3 of these off the California coast one day on flight radar. Really cool.

Sounds are spot-on at taxi speeds. From memory though, in flight, the Hunter is one of the loudest aircraft around. The last display I recall was Farnborough in the noughties, when it was painted in red bull livery. Vulcan was powered by 4 Bristol Olympus. RR couldn't design anything as good so they bought Bristol's out to acquire the rights...

The Vulcan had Bristol Olympus engines, same as Concord without the afterburners

Thank you for the kind review, I'm pleased you enjoyed flying her. 👍

Thanks for another awesome flight review! I love your humor and your knowledge. Plus I love those Hunters, in Switzerland they operated 4 of them for passenger flights until 2020 oder 21 and 2 single seaters for airshows but had to sell them due to a steep increase of costs per hour and some regulatory issues. Now there are only 2 Hunters left, a twin based in Sion and the infamous Papyrus Hunter in St Stephan just a hop over a mountain ridge, both of them with quite an uncertain future unfortunately. The good side is that the other airframes went on to GB, US and Canada for Red Air missions.

Reminds me of the Mach Loop! Well done on that loop at around 16:10 or so, IMHO.

That was fun! Thanks for letting us peer into your memories too.

Excellent!! Are you a pilot in r.l.? If not you show amazing piloting skills and situational awareness. I was almost reaching for the barfbag when you flew through those valleys! This is definitely a must have for me. (btw, you still sound like Sue Perkins!)

The 2 loadouts that have 2 tanks, I caught the difference, it's REALLY subtle. The tanks on the inboards are the same, but on one loadout the hardpoints for the outboard tanks are fitted, just as empty hardpoints, and in the other loadout those outboard hardpoints are removed. Really world you'll be a bit more draggy with those hardpoints, but it'd be quicker and easier to fit stores on the outboard if needed.

This is a nice addon and for free . The sim crash thing , yes been getting the same don't know why either . Nice review as always 😊

Awesome - super scenery, thanks for posting.

Sim was crashing on me due to NVIDIA drivers. Going back a few updates helped. The newest drivers seem to have fixed it for me.

Nice jet flying hahaha

Well Aa, with this you could fly down from Angel Resort to us in the south and full stop at my CYXX! Yessss indeed!

I must try this as well!

Great flight!

Just a note from the flight commander... Please try not to prune to many trees as you fly low ... Seems the officers mess has enough twigs at the moment... Lol

Honestly? I think I prefer the look of the two-seater version of this plane.

Really enjoyed that sortie, anyone remember the red hunter?

Hi AvAngel, we must be "in tune"!!!....I did a very similar flight yesterday afternoon out of Valley(excellent scenery BTW) in Dave's masterpiece! I even parked up next to the Danish F16's. The Mach Loop was great fun☺....like you I've had a couple of crashes in the last couple of days, I downloaded the latest driver last week🤔... Are you using TrackIR?...I keep deliberating whether to buy it. I'm hoping someone does repaints for II(AC) & 4 Sqn....that would take me right back to my days at RAF Gutersloh, very early 70's.....happy days🙂

I think visually it is at least as good as the Big Radials Norseman, if not better.

Nice video however, I think the Sea Hawk pre-dates the Hunter.

I thought you wanted to see wales. Yeah, but not upside down., what I could do with now is a nice cosy coal mine. If I make a mess of this, you will be deeper than any coal mine .

J.F would sell this for fifty quid! Well done the Dev!

Ummm Avie !?! There were a couple of aircraft photographers on one of the hilltops you blasted by complaining that you may have clipped one of their tripod mounted cameras with a wing. They found the tripod a few yards away but their GoPro might be lodged in an under wing panel.😳

Sea hunters?

You flew that superbly... Bet the RAF will be on the phone for you to join up.