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...
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of the Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft: Hawker P.1067 Prototype, first flight 20 July 1951, three built with the first later modified as a Hunter Mk 3 for...
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The Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident occurred on 5 April 1968, when Alan Pollock, a Royal Air Force (RAF) Hawker Hunter pilot performed unauthorised...
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version of Hunter Hawker P.1129 Hawker P.1131 Hawker P.1132 Hawker P.1134 Hawker P.1136 Hawker P.1137 Hawker P.1139 Hawker P.1141 Hawker P.1143 Hawker P.1149...
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2015 Shoreham Airshow crash (redirect from 2015 Shoreham Hawker Hunter crash)
Farnborough Airshow crash, which had killed 31 people. The aircraft, a Hawker Hunter T7, failed to complete a loop manoeuvre and crashed, hitting vehicles...
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Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production. Hawker Siddeley combined the legacies of several British...
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The following is a list of units that have used the Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft. Abu Dhabi Defence Force Air Wing United Arab Emirates Air Force Belgian...
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Electric Canberra B.2. Similar versions were used in the Canberra B.6, Hawker Hunter and Supermarine Swift. Uprated versions followed, the RA.7/Mk.114 with...
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News, Virginia, United States. It operates Dassault Mirage F1, Mk-58 Hawker Hunter, Israeli F-21 Kfir, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, and Aero L-39 Albatros military...
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BAE Systems Hawk (redirect from Hawker Siddeley Hawk)
BAC Strikemaster, Hawker Hunter, and Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. During the 1980s and 1990s, British Aerospace, the successor company to Hawker Siddeley, was trying...
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Enfield, producing ADEN. The ADEN cannon entered service on the British Hawker Hunter in 1954, and was subsequently used on every British gun-armed aircraft...
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only 24 British-made Hawker Hunter fighters, six transport aircraft and two helicopters. According to the Israelis, the Hawker Hunter was essentially on...
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Sydney Camm (section Hunter)
to many Hawker aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters. One particularly notable aircraft he designed was the Hawker Hurricane...
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HMS Hunter (1945), a tank landing ship HMS Hunter (D80), a Bogue-class escort carrier HMS Hunter (H35), an H-class destroyer launched in 1936 Hawker Hunter...
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Folland Gnat (redirect from Hawker Siddeley Gnat)
wartime production of many of the RAF's aircraft of the time, such as the Hawker Hunter and the Gloster Javelin interceptors, were viewed as questionable. Petter...
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developed over 11,000 lbf (49 kN). It powered early versions of the Hawker Hunter and Handley Page Victor, and every Gloster Javelin. Production was also...
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introduced when 16 de Havilland Vampire jets were received. The first Hawker Hunters arrived in 1959 and were followed by additional fighters through 1977...
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same year. The 1956 Hawker Hunter multiple aircraft accident happened on the morning of Wednesday 8 February 1956. Eight Hawker Hunter aircraft from the...
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table, click on "hide". This trophy, a model of the Hawker Hunter, was first awarded in 1960 by the Hawker Aircraft Company to the student who wrote the best...
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Rolls-Royce Avon, which were used in the English Electric Canberra and Hawker Hunter aircraft, used a high gas volume cartridge driving a turbine instead...
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and the British aircraft industry. Ultimately, the less problematic Hawker Hunter assumed much of the role intended for the Swift and only half as many...
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RAF Brawdy (section Hawker Sea Hawk)
and Hawker Hunter aircraft were based at RNAS Brawdy, with 849 Naval Air Squadron operating Gannet, 759 Naval Air Squadron with two seat Hunter and 738...
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The battle was fought between 120 Indian soldiers accompanied by four Hawker Hunter and three HAL Marut fighter-bombers and 2,000–3,000 Pakistani soldiers...
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Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 and the North American F-86 Sabre. The Hawker Hunter appeared too late for the war but was widely used and took part in several...
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(PDF) from the original on 30 October 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2018. "Hawker Hunter Aviation Ltd - Aircraft". Archived from the original on 30 September...
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and later swept wing, axial flow-engined combat aircraft, such as the Hawker Hunter and de Havilland Sea Vixen. In comparison with the Vampire, it had a...
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at best, marginally better than its existing fleet of British-built Hawker Hunters. Due to the insufficient power of the Orpheus 703, the Marut was technically...
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from the Hawker P.1127. Prior to developing the P.1127, Hawker Aircraft had been working on a replacement for the Hawker Hunter, the Hawker P.1121. The...
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configuration, and era Dassault Mystère FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II Grumman F-9 Cougar Hawker Hunter Lavochkin La-15 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 Republic...
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rising ground, one killed. 10 June 1960 - XG193 Hawker Hunter F.6, 111 Squadron, collided with another Hunter during aerobatic display near RAF Wattisham...
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