The Canadians (oh forgot to say that Graham’s grip is Canadian)….used spade grips in Hurricanes and Harvards….early Harvards still had the Bowden cable ‘guide’ attached….later these were ‘shaved off’ the 2040 casting for pure Harvard use….later 2242’s were fitted that had castings that were already modifed to remove the guide

Hmm. Interesting stuff.

tho that would show how sad I am!!

I couldn’t possibly comment.:D 😀

See here,

http://www.bc-heritage.org/bch/KMProject.asp

The listings in the “current aircraft journal” appear to be a bit off the mark. Can anyone confirm the date for the Popham aero/auto jumble and classic car show as may bank holliday rather than April 8 as listed. Good look with the Brooklands jumble hope to be there too.

The Popham Airfield website says May 7th – http://www.popham-airfield.co.uk/Events.htm

I don’t know what Jet Heritage/Eric Hayward did, but there are two other Hunters in Europe that can produce a noise likened to a Blue Note! The first is T.7 G-VETA now based at Exeter with Skyblue Aviation, and the second is Karl Theurer’s T.68 G-HVIP.
Superb 😀

The Mark 68 is a twin-gun job, so I wonder if that makes a difference with the T-birds? Can’t explain G-VETA though, unless the boys at Exeter have been drilling holes in strategic places so it makes nice noises!:D

Hi

Anyone who attended the 50th Anniversary of the Hawker Hunter at Kemble in2001, would have been able to experience the sight and sound of a Hunter making the distinctive “Blue Note” sound. The display was by Hunter F-6A
XF516 and the pilot on that occasion was former Lightning display pilot, John Aldington.

Freebird

Agreed, it was a wonderful day.

The Blue Note is generally accepted to be primarily produced by airflow over and through the gun ports.

Poor old XF516 is very much missed and was the only Hunter at the time able to produce the Blue Note properly – because it had original blast tubes and an original gun pack in place. Despite what some will try and convince you, ex-Swiss Hunters like Miss Demeanor can’t do it because of the blast deflectors. Kennet’s XF515 doesn’t give the full effect either because it has an electric start system fitted where the gun pack innards used to be and so the blast tubes have been tinkered with.

Thankfully we now have XE601 flying which carries on the tradition of being the only Hunter able to produce the Blue Note properly – see multivac’s first youtube link in the previous post (Brian Grant being the pilot on that occasion).

Pretty obvious that sort of thing goes on.

It certainly is.

Hunters as far as the eye can see. What more can you ask?!:)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm……………………..