Hunter - the most beautiful jet ever!

@MontytheHorse

Жыл бұрын

The Hunter was the aircraft flown under Tower Bridge back in ‘68! Rach also causing lots of virtual phone calls to the station commander to complain about the low flying! 😂

@AvAngel

Жыл бұрын

Hell yes!

@andyreynolds6194

Жыл бұрын

*laughs in Sea Vixen*

As a cadet, I sat in this very aircraft in 1975 at RAF Valley though I recall it was significantly more dinged up than the sim version. What should be next to it on the pan is the Gnat. At the time (pre-Hawk), advanced jet training was started on the Gnat (90 hours, I think) and then progressed to the Hunter for weapons training. Except if you were over 5ft 10in (an estimate) and were wearing a bone dome, it wasn't possible to get the canopy to close on the Gnat, so all the training was done on the Hunter. In training, it was mostly a matter of clocking the flying hours, so the aircraft would fully fuel in the morning and then, usually in pairs, head into the Snowdonia mountain range to play tag at 250ft (or lower). As they say, it was a different age.

I really enjoy flying the Hawker Hunter. I also got the single seat Hawker Hunter that's also made by Dave Garwood.

I spotted a flight of 3 of these off the California coast one day on flight radar. Really cool.

@thatsaroger

Жыл бұрын

They are the Mk-58’s that ATAC flies out of Point Mugu. I see them frequently, as well as the F-21 Kfir’s, that fly over my home on their way to land at Mugu.

Awesome - super scenery, thanks for posting.

Sounds are spot-on at taxi speeds. From memory though, in flight, the Hunter is one of the loudest aircraft around. The last display I recall was Farnborough in the noughties, when it was painted in red bull livery. Vulcan was powered by 4 Bristol Olympus. RR couldn't design anything as good so they bought Bristol's out to acquire the rights...

That was fun! Thanks for letting us peer into your memories too.

The Vulcan had Bristol Olympus engines, same as Concord without the afterburners

18:15 The first one was (I think) Mynydd Perfedd and the second one was Glyder Fawr. Snowdon was directly behind Glyder Fawr, just above your mouse pointer... ;)

@bujin1977

Жыл бұрын

Enjoyable video, though. I always like watching MSFS videos of places I'm very familiar with. The only things that this was missing was my own little add-ons I created for Llanddwyn Island and Dolbadarn Castle... 🤣😉

Thanks for another awesome flight review! I love your humor and your knowledge. Plus I love those Hunters, in Switzerland they operated 4 of them for passenger flights until 2020 oder 21 and 2 single seaters for airshows but had to sell them due to a steep increase of costs per hour and some regulatory issues. Now there are only 2 Hunters left, a twin based in Sion and the infamous Papyrus Hunter in St Stephan just a hop over a mountain ridge, both of them with quite an uncertain future unfortunately. The good side is that the other airframes went on to GB, US and Canada for Red Air missions.

Great flight!

Well Aa, with this you could fly down from Angel Resort to us in the south and full stop at my CYXX! Yessss indeed!

@AvAngel

Жыл бұрын

Oh I could! Those would be some epic valleys!

Thank you for the kind review, I'm pleased you enjoyed flying her. 👍

@AvAngel

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful aircraft Dave, better than many payware ships 😀

@johnhammond6423

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dave, my favorite aircraft and you have done a great job.

I must try this as well!

Reminds me of the Mach Loop! Well done on that loop at around 16:10 or so, IMHO.

This is a nice addon and for free . The sim crash thing , yes been getting the same don't know why either . Nice review as always 😊

Excellent!! Are you a pilot in r.l.? If not you show amazing piloting skills and situational awareness. I was almost reaching for the barfbag when you flew through those valleys! This is definitely a must have for me. (btw, you still sound like Sue Perkins!)

Nice jet flying hahaha

The 2 loadouts that have 2 tanks, I caught the difference, it's REALLY subtle. The tanks on the inboards are the same, but on one loadout the hardpoints for the outboard tanks are fitted, just as empty hardpoints, and in the other loadout those outboard hardpoints are removed. Really world you'll be a bit more draggy with those hardpoints, but it'd be quicker and easier to fit stores on the outboard if needed.

@Streaky100001

Жыл бұрын

Nevermind, you noticed it as soon as I hit enter. Disregard.

@Streaky100001

Жыл бұрын

What I will point out instead, the Vulcan didn't use the Avon's, it used the Olympus engines. As for the howl, I was always lead to believe that it was due to the shape of the air intake, rather than the engine itself, which does kinda check, if you look at the shape of the hunters intakes in the wing... they're not too dissimilar, if a lot smaller, than those on the Vulcan.

@AvAngel

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s something someone pointed out, got my engines mixed!

Sim was crashing on me due to NVIDIA drivers. Going back a few updates helped. The newest drivers seem to have fixed it for me.

@AvAngel

Жыл бұрын

I'll update then, i had rolled back from current to fix it but it was derping.

@Gassit

Жыл бұрын

@@AvAngel According to VR Flight Sim Guy the recommended by Asobo version to use is currently 531.29

@Joshtheshua

Жыл бұрын

I tried the old ones but they still crashed. The newest ones seem to work ok for me. Knock wood.

@mistercap5725

Жыл бұрын

Idk if it affected your sim but sometimes when my sim crashes after installing new nvidia drivers I'd find my sim graphics settings had been changed by installing the new drivers and restoring my usual graphics settings would fix it

Honestly? I think I prefer the look of the two-seater version of this plane.

Really enjoyed that sortie, anyone remember the red hunter?

I thought you wanted to see wales. Yeah, but not upside down., what I could do with now is a nice cosy coal mine. If I make a mess of this, you will be deeper than any coal mine .

I think visually it is at least as good as the Big Radials Norseman, if not better.

Nice video however, I think the Sea Hawk pre-dates the Hunter.

Hi AvAngel, we must be "in tune"!!!....I did a very similar flight yesterday afternoon out of Valley(excellent scenery BTW) in Dave's masterpiece! I even parked up next to the Danish F16's. The Mach Loop was great fun☺....like you I've had a couple of crashes in the last couple of days, I downloaded the latest driver last week🤔... Are you using TrackIR?...I keep deliberating whether to buy it. I'm hoping someone does repaints for II(AC) & 4 Sqn....that would take me right back to my days at RAF Gutersloh, very early 70's.....happy days🙂

@AvAngel

Жыл бұрын

I use a similar product by grass monkey simulations called the puck, same system but cheaper and works great

@georginahallett8716

Жыл бұрын

@@AvAngel Thanks😊

J.F would sell this for fifty quid! Well done the Dev!

@AvAngel

Жыл бұрын

XD

Just a note from the flight commander... Please try not to prune to many trees as you fly low ... Seems the officers mess has enough twigs at the moment... Lol

@AvAngel

Жыл бұрын

If i don't come home with twigs in my gear, was I really flying?

@stephensmith1118

Жыл бұрын

@@AvAngel lol... Thanks for another fun and informative video... I love your sense of humour you brighten my day have fun ☺️

Sea hunters?

You flew that superbly... Bet the RAF will be on the phone for you to join up.

Ummm Avie !?! There were a couple of aircraft photographers on one of the hilltops you blasted by complaining that you may have clipped one of their tripod mounted cameras with a wing. They found the tripod a few yards away but their GoPro might be lodged in an under wing panel.😳

@AvAngel

Жыл бұрын

No regrets 😀