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26 Oct 2017 14:05 #31
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On the subject of the Hunter or to be exact a lose connection, it was revealed a couple of weeks ago that Sabrina died last year.
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26 Oct 2017 20:34 #32
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I had to Google that one
She was already fading from the scene a few years before I would have found her "interesting". I do recall Authur Askey often mentioned her quite a bit on "Does the Team Think" in the late sixties and I believe my Dad had a set of colour slides of her from a souvenir set (Walton's?) nothing revealing though. Probably purchased by the seaside as they were quite common for scenic sets, but expensive.
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On the subject of the Hunter or to be exact a lose connection, it was revealed a couple of weeks ago that Sabrina died last year.
I had to Google that one
She was already fading from the scene a few years before I would have found her "interesting". I do recall Authur Askey often mentioned her quite a bit on "Does the Team Think" in the late sixties and I believe my Dad had a set of colour slides of her from a souvenir set (Walton's?) nothing revealing though. Probably purchased by the seaside as they were quite common for scenic sets, but expensive.
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27 Oct 2017 04:17 #33
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The connection of a well-endowed actress named Sabrina to the Hawker Hunter is with the two ADEN gun expended ammunition link collectors mounted externally on the gun pack. These were added by modification later in the life of the aircraft to eliminate link strikes on the tailplane.
The resultant breast-like appendages were nicknamed 'Sabrinas' by some wag and entered the vocabulary of RAF jargon.
Ironically, the later Hawk aircraft fitted with a single pod-mounted ADEN gun on the centreline still suffers link strikes!
The resultant breast-like appendages were nicknamed 'Sabrinas' by some wag and entered the vocabulary of RAF jargon.
Ironically, the later Hawk aircraft fitted with a single pod-mounted ADEN gun on the centreline still suffers link strikes!
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29 Jan 2019 21:13 #34
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Hunter XX467 at Bruntingthorpe 5/16
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03 Jun 2019 12:12 #35
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The ex- Midair non flying Hunter T8 XE665 is now a "gate guard" locatad next to next to the AV8 cafe on Kemble airfield
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03 Jul 2019 18:56 #36
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A terrible photograph of the Hunter on top of the Vanguard building along the Western Avenue, London. Took this last Wednesday.
I think they have had the tardis up there before
Searching the net they have had, in addtion to the hunter and tardis a bus, harrier and a spitfire and they have other items in their store including a Ferret scout car and a double decker bus
For the last couple of weeks there has been a small (Army) ? type helicopter on the top. The tail blades are painted in black and white bars, and there is a white V painted on the nose.
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03 Jul 2019 21:40 #37
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I thought that camo Hunter looks familiar. It's now at Newark Air Museum.
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HHA Hunter F58 ZZ190 undergoing Engine test runs at Scampton 18 November
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Hunter T8B XF995 inside the heritage hangar at Scampton
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Formerly one of the HHA spare aircraft parked outside their hangar at Scampton, GA,11 XE685 has now moved to Wickenby as a gate guardianoriginaly an F.4 and then converted to a GA.11 and also registered as G-GAII Here she is at Scampton in 2011
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