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My dad used to maintain these when he was doing his national service. They had a hoot testing the guns on the beach.

Watching Chris squeeze into yet another tight cockpit reminds me that one of the reasons the great Eric Brown was able to fly a record 487 aircraft types was that he was small enough to fit.

IMO, the most beautiful warplane ever built.

This icon was the mainstay of 🇮🇳 Indian Airforce in the 1965 & 1971 Indo-Pak war.. My dad worked on these legendary machines..

The hunter is still operational in US/Canada for training! Lortie Aviation is a private contractor and they fly them since 2002!

Rolls Royce Nene is pronounce like knee - neen. It is the name of a river, like the Derwent and Trent, which are also Rolls Royce jet engine names.

Trivia time. Your pronunciation of the name Avon is actually the Welsh way- and in Welsh it is spelled Afon- Welsh being an original British language. In German a V is pronounced as an F and in Welsh an F is pronounced as a V. Anyway, the Welsh word Afon means River. When the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain, they asked the local British: "What's this called?" as they pointed to the local river and the locals replied "Avon". That's why across England there are any number of rivers called Avon. In effect calling something the River Avon is the same as calling it the "River River" but the Anglo-Saxons did not know this at the time. As you probably know Rolls-Royce liked to name its jet engines after rivers while Bristol used classical names for its many engines such as Olympus or Pegasus, Hercules etc.

Best looking jet fighter ever made (In my opinion) no matter what angle you observe a hunter from it always looks "right". Great piece Bis.....

I spent over ten years working on the Hunters of the RAF in various places. It had a novel starting system which used isopropyl nitrate turbine starter (although the trainers used a cartridge system). The air brake was interesting from a hydraulic point of view in that when set to operate hydraulic pressure was fed to BOTH sides of the jack. This resulted in the air brake operating very quickly. Engine changes needed the aircraft to be split in two just aft of the wings, this was always a lengthy job. And I recall changing an engine which went u/s on its first run. The only spare engine we had was in another aircraft which was at that time u/s for another reason, so I think that the one engine change turned into four! The other major job was setting up the undercarriages to Service Instruction 72. This was a seriously fiddly job and if it needed doing to all three undercarriages could take a couple of days. One had to adjust the locks to hold the legs up, also the sequence valves for the doors and the door locks, nightmare!

The Hunter is my favourite jet aircraft, so beautiful to look at in my opinion. It just seems to want to fly! It is the jet age version of the Spitfire!

As a Swiss guy and a true Hunter fan I really appreciate your video about the Hawker Hunter as it is really hard to condense the extensive history of that iconic aircraft into a 20 minute video. So you did a good job on that. However there is a small thing I'd like to correct. Before you entered the Cockpit you talked about the Sabrinas and pointed out that the gases from the Gun firing where emitted backwards, away from the jet intakes. Now what you pointed at actually where the Chaffs and Flare installation. The gases where pointed downward by the gun deflectors at the end of the barrels as you correctly said before and some of the internal gases where evacuated together with the shells of the guns via the tubes between the Sabrinas and the fuselage. Furthermore with the newer Rolls-Royce Avon 203 which was in the Swiss Hunters this problem wasn't existent anymore. How ever the Swiss hunters are special in many ways and differ from all the others. So where the MK 58 the only ones with RWR, Chaff and Flare containers e.g. (as far as I know). This was all added in the KAWEST - standig for "Kampwertsteigerung" (or Hunter 80 Program) in the 80es. Also the Swiss Hunters where the only ones able to deploy Sidewinders and some where even equipped to deploy the "Maverick AGM65" Television guided Air to ground missile. Special as well at the Swiss Hunters Sabrinas was that they where elongated, not only to collect the ammunition links (which was the main reason for the Sabrinas) and contain the Chaff and Flare installation, but they had to collect the empty shells as well. The first Swiss Hunters ejected them as all Hunters did, but during training's on shooting ranges in the Swiss alps (Axalp e.g) these shells fell to the ground on meadows, where in the summer cows where located. Now these cows licked on the shells during the grass feeding and showed signs of poisoning later on. So the Swiss airforce hat to do something to prevent this. So they defined, that in peace times the Hunter just carried 30 rounds of ammunition per gun, so that the empty shells could be collected in the Sabrinas as well. Furthermore because of the immense recoil of the four 30mm Aden guns (could be more than 5t), which tended to damage the structure over time the Swiss airforce decided to fire only two of them simultaneously.

My favorite fighter of that era. I had a small die cast metal Hunter as a child and I always loved the shape of them. The Hunter looks like a fighter!

Just a gorgeous aircraft. Excellent video. Thanks Bismarck!

hi Bismark this is the only jet fighter i have ever sat in the cockpit of and that would have been about 1961 /62 there was a fuselage only section at the then called boys and girls exhibition held every year in the kelvin hall in Glasgow Scotland i cannot remember but i would think this was to recruit for the RAF you brought back long forgotten memories thank you so much

Many years ago I went to RAF Chivenor as an Air Cadet which was then a Fast Jet Conversion School for pilots who had just graduated from flying Jet Provosts. They had mainly F mk6s and T mk7s trainers to bring them up to speed.

A member of my Golf Club was part of the twenty two Hunters performing the loop. He was a originally a conscript selected for pilot training ,

Greetings & support from Singapore! The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) was a former operator of Hawker Hunters & I loved seeing them up close during visits to Air Force open houses where the Black Knights, the aerobatics display team of the RSAF would fly them in the 1980s. Thanks for making this video!

worth watching the Roger Hyman videos, amazing career in the RAF and fascinating to listen to his tales of flying the Hunter.

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