By: Heard not seen - 30th August 2017 at 02:00
What a great song & video. Boeing’s Bird of Prey is what comes to mind when I hear this. Now hanging high in a museum ugly corner above another revolutionary bird ? 
By: Duggy - 30th August 2017 at 00:11
Thanks guy’s.
So are there other aircraft that still survive that starred in music videos??
By: Fouga23 - 29th August 2017 at 17:56
Made a model of it long ago 🙂
http://www.arcair.com/Gal6/5001-5100/gal5029-Hunter-Soetaert/00.shtm
By: Stratofreighter - 29th August 2017 at 17:27
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=58228
XJ615 was the Hawker Hunter T.Mk.7 prototype (Hawker P.1101), issued to the Empire Test Pilots School at Boscombe Down after completion of the type’s test programme.
Written off 24/6/1964: crashed when the engine flamed out due to mismanagement of the fuel booster pump switches following fuel transfer failure. The aircraft struck trees on high ground in lifting fog 1¾ miles SE of Haslemere, Surrey killing the French pilot
NOTE: To confuse matters, a Hawker T.Mk.7 was painted up as “XJ615” when acquired by a private owner after being sold off by the Royal Navy in the mid-1990s. However, this aircraft was really G-BWGL (ex-XF357, a former FRADU/Royal Navy Hunter T.Mk.8C).
This Hawker Hunter two-seater is now based in The Netherlands, Leeuwarden AFB.
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivor.php?id=301
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http://www.dutchhawkerhunter.nl/dhhf/Aircraft.html
During the filming of this clip she was owned/operated by the OFMC Old Flying Machine Company.
By: Piston - 29th August 2017 at 13:14
Do we know which Hunter was used? It looks like the serial is under the wings, but can’t make it out on my phone.
By: Pen Pusher - 29th August 2017 at 07:18
From Wiki
“Sunset (Bird of Prey)” is a song by the British big beat artist Fatboy Slim, released from his 2000 album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. The single peaked at No. 9 in the UK
Music video
The music video of the song is set in 1964 and features Robert Jezek as a United States Air Force pilot flying a British-made Hawker Hunter fighter plane named the Bird of Prey. It opens with the famous “Daisy” television commercial, which was used as a campaign for President Lyndon B. Johnson during this year, showing the pilot sitting in a room watching this commercial. He drinks a glass of water which has something bubbling in it, intercut with an image of a brain and a piece of paper with text describing a chemical. An identification form with Fatboy Slim’s real name on it, (Colonel) “Norman Cook” is seen. As the drug comes on, he imagines he’s flying the plane, and he eventually ejects and parachutes down, and then the hallucination stops. The actual song is playing during the flight sequence. Near the end of the video one can see the word “MKULTRA”, which was a CIA-operated top secret confidential government project concerning mind control human experimentation, including using chemicals on test subjects (people) as truth serums. Also visible is another identification form with another name on it, Al Hubbard.
Filming
The filming took place at Duxford Aerodrome, and was produced by Flight Logistics of Borehamwood, who used an Aérospatiale Corvette to film the airborne scenes from.[1] The Hawker Hunter was in a USAF livery.[2]
Brian
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