I would not claim to be a Hunter expert but there is on excellent book:

The Hawker Hunter a Complete History by Tim McLelland published by Crecy ISBN 978 0 85979 123 6. It has 380 pages of history and technical information.

If I only had one Hunter book that would be it.

A good overview of UK Hunter operations is:

Hunters. the Hawker Hunter in British Military Service by Martin Bowman from Sutton Publishing . ISBN 0 7509 2935 9.

As I said, not an expert, just a former member of the Delta jets supporters club that disbanded a while back.

What happened to the remains of the bombed out 184?

Cees

Cees

It is listed as on display at the Fleet Air Arm museum, Yeovilton

Thanks for the clarification.

This is the perennial problem with model manufacturers, both die cast and plastic and to some extent with artists. Being an obsessive kit basher I come up against this time and again. It fascinates me that you can come across identical subjects from different manufacturers where there are conflicting interpretations of the same aircraft. As ever, the only verifiable evidence is a period pohotgraph – unless you need to verify a particular colour or shade.
I could go on. Better not…………….

There is certainly a case for a calm and thoughtful response here.

In the 1980s I travelled to Berlin and Hamburg on a number of occasions and met members of those cities’ business communities, many aged then in their
60s and 70s, who had clear memories of wartime bombing. I never met any animosity, sometimes cautious questions, but I always made it clear that my understanding was that the British and Americans were fighting Nazism, not the German people. I once visited the Hamburg firestorm museum in the company of some of the same citizens of Hamburg and it was a sobering experience. I was also amazed to be taken on a boat tour of Hamburg harbour, to see the old concrete – reinforced ship pens at the top of the harbour, still battered by the bombing of the years before, to be wrlyly informed by one of the Harbour Master’s staff that it was probabaly thanks to the attentions of the allied air forces that Hamburg had to redevelop into one of the most modern and efficent harbours in Europe.

This was in the days before the East-West borders came down and their was a clear sense of common purpose between former enemies.

The Bomber Command memorial will stand in tribute to and rememberance of those who died in a fight against tryranny. Let us not be misled into an over-reaction by a brief headline-grabbing story that will soon be in tomorrow’s recycling collection