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The Hawker Hunter is a transonic British jet-powered fighter aircraft that was developed by Hawker Aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It was designed to take advantage of the newly developed Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engine and the swept wing , and was the first jet-powered aircraft produced by Hawker ...
Hunter F.1 First production version, Avon 113 engine, first flight 16 May 1953, 139 built, 113 built by Hawker Aircraft at Kingston-upon-Thames and a further 26 at Blackpool.
The first Hawker design was the unbuilt Hawker Humpback of December 1920. [2] This was soon followed by the Hawker Duiker , the first prototype, which flew in July 1923. [ 3 ] In the interwar years , Hawker produced a successful line of bombers and fighters for the Royal Air Force , the product of Sydney Camm (later Sir Sydney) and his team.
The Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident occurred on 5 April 1968, [1] when Alan Pollock, a Royal Air Force (RAF) Hawker Hunter pilot performed unauthorised low flying over several London landmarks and then flew through the span of Tower Bridge on the River Thames.
The old emblem of the Fliegerstaffel 5 on a Hawker Hunter in November 1994 - in addition with the names of pilots from Fliegerstaffel 5 A version of the new Badge on a Hawker Hunter. Fliegerstaffel 5 ("Fighter Squadron 5") was a unit of the Swiss Air Force. It was equipped with the Hawker Hunter. Its home base was Interlaken Air Base.
Hawker Hunter F.74S Singapore Paya Lebar Air Base Republic of Singapore Air Force Ordered in 1968 with delivery starting in 1971 and completed in 1973, the RSAF operated a total of 46 Hunters (12× FGA.74s, 26× FR.74A/Bs and 8× T.75/As, excluding one T.75A which was lost in accident before delivery) from 1971 to 1992. [ 10 ]
The Lebanese Air Forces have a long history operating Hawker Hunter jets since 1958. During the Six-Day War Two Hawker Hunter strafed Israeli positions in Galilee. One Lebanese Hawker Hunter was shot down by an Israeli Air Force Mirage IIICJ. [3] The Hawker Hunters have not flown any combat sorties since September 17, 1983.
Duke joined Hawker as an assistant chief test pilot in 1948, and became Hawker's chief test pilot in 1951, following the death of "Wimpy" Wade, his predecessor. He was particularly involved in the development of the highly successful Hawker Hunter, flying the Hawker P1067 in its trials in July 1951.