Ammunition chutes

These chutes are 30mm ammunition feed chutes from the Hunter they were fitted between the ammunition feed from the tank and the individual feed mouth on the 30mm ADEN cannon.

Hawker were responsible for the manufacture of the gun pack and accessories and most ADEN gun parts were 7R/ items.

Don’t listen to the riggers, they know nothing of the plumbers art of armouring!! The gun pack was a removeable item and could be changed in less than 5 minutes by a good crew. The barrels were kept with the guns as they had to have their rounds fired recorded with the gun. They were slid forward to allow the gun pack to be dropped then they were removed and replaced with the new gun pack.

To answer your original question; no these are absolutely no good for a Hurricane.

Any story behind hunters with GB and Iraqi marks on pictures below?

Sorry to come in late on this. Only just noticed it.

These pictures appear in Martin Bowman’s book ‘Hunters – The Hawker Hunter in British Military Service’.

The markings, except for the serials were Royalist Iraqi.

They show XG236 and XG251 (at least a bit of it). Flown by Flt. Lt’s Ned Kelly (XG236) and Alastair Aked (XG251) of No.66 Squadron from Akrotiri, Cyprus on loan from the AOC Cyprus to the Iraqi AF on 7th May 1957 to take part as reserve aircraft in a flypast for VVIP’s and King Faisal II over Baghdad. Aircraft were flown from Akrotiri, over Turkey and Kurdistan, avoiding Syrian airspace and down to Baghdad in a flight time of 2 hours.

The aircraft were temporarily based out of Habbaniyah.

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