Running with the humorous ‘scramble’ from the world of preservation – I’m sneaking along to the Museum and prepping Hunter XF382 for combat then… Should be easy as the guns already work, just need a few hundred rounds of 30mm please;) Source the missing pylons and it’ll be ready to receive underwing tanks & stores… Simples 😉

Neil McCarthy is ready for the northern flank with the JP undergoing the mods to bring it up to Mk52 spec with weaponary – and the current servicing schedule of the soon-to-be seen reappearance of the well known Hunter T7 “G-FFOX” has been hastened to get it ready to have a go 🙂

Team Viper are gonna get the call to muster crews too – we’ll have a force to be reckoned with taking us back to the 80’s alright…

Seriously though – I do know that on the Falklands we are far better equipped now than we ever were before. Equipment levels are sufficient – just need the manpower on the ground (a few trooping flights) and get whatever airborne forces we can get there quickly…. Obviously it’s not that simple but the reality is not that far from the above.

Er – its in my post above!

I know but the pic you attached won’t enlarge so I couldn’t tell which serial number it was….. thanks for the updated info on reg’s.

And to think I pass by the Cosford one without realising it was the same ‘yellow’ example 😉

PS: I meant ‘find’ as in looking for a photo of it on my pc as I have extensive Brawdy archives to look back at my days there 😀

I remember them 🙂 never saw the alleged “Dayglo” example though, just the Red and yellow ones… Their role was not something I am familiar with as groundcrew on them – but by the time I arrived in ’78 they were probably just part of the ‘fleet’ and could have been seen with any number of other Hunters on a sortie. The markings didn’t survive much longer after I arrived, mind you neither did many of the Hunters as they were in the middle of replacement by Hawks by then.

In answer to the original question – for artistic purposes a painting could include any of the other Brawdy Hunters to be honest 😉

Here’s XF418 at Brawdy whilst still adorned with the Red 🙂

PM sent to the copyright holder – replied to and PM sent to you!

TW117, the only T3 used in the movie – now in Norway on display at Bodo:

Pic Link

Previously on display at Hendon: LINK

Miss D underwent some repairs including a wing replacement whilst based at Kemble after an incident departing another airfield some years back. For some time the same wing appeared at the back of Delta’s old hangar (the old Red Arrows one)…

That’s why the removed wing appears with the other ‘bitsa’ parts making an almost complete Hunter in that photo 😉

Also – Tail Code “87” was XL592 when at Brawdy – I have pics of it, and currently looking for any of XL578?:)

Anybody read the report ??
I cannot get it to open from the AAIB website
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/publications/bulletins/july_2011/swift_s_1__g_izii.cfm

Hi Baz, I “saved link as” and opened the pdf file from my pc with no problems…

Makes interesting reading.

If you’re stuck, I can email you a copy if you want?