Britain’s First Great Fighter Jet (The Hawker Hunter) 

5:33 Fact check: The Avon was a Rolls-Royce engine. The Sapphire was an engine from Armstrong Siddeley.

Sorry Simon, but this game is quite shite...

You should do a video on the f-16

Simon, could you do one on the Canberra. ?

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Thank you wondered why I didn't recognise the engine maker names 😅

Thank you …..

Yes, sounded weird when he read it, then I figured out he'd done it the other way around. 😂

Yeah silly mistake but he repeats it again later referring to the Avon as a company!

@@watcherzero5256 Well, there two British companies called Avon. One makes tires (or should I say tyres ?), the other is a large MLM that sells cosmetics. I wonder which one Simon thinks is a manufacturer of jet engines...

Yes, Flight-Lieutenant Pook, his reason, there was no fly-past to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the RAF.

Sometime during the early 1960s a Dutch Hunter pilot did something similar, performing an unauthorised flyby and airshow over his home town (where my father grew up and lived at the time, starting his interest in aviation).

@@EdMcF1 You got the rank right but Flt Lt Pook was a later generation.

@@EdMcF1 The pilot was Flt Lt Alan Pollock of number 1 Squadron. He was on a flight from RAF Tangmere in West Sussex to RAF West Raynham in Norfolk in Hunter FGA9 serial number XF442. He dropped out of the formation and beat up Dunsfold aerodrome where Hunters where assembled, he then flew low over London and circled the Houses of Parliament 3 times. He then flew past the RAF memorial on the Embankment, dipping his wings in salute before carrying on down stream and through the span of Tower Bridge. In a statement by him in later years he stated that he hadn't intended to fly through Tower Bridge but literally found it in his way so flew through

​@@mikeandtriciajohnson7241 The most amazing aspect of the story is that this didn't end his career, senior officers felt that he had a point that is was a bit strange not to acknowledge the 50th anniversary, so they wrapped his knuckles and allowed him to keep flying.

Strictly speaking he was only involved in the P.1127.... the developmental prototype... but YES... what a career! From a man carrying glider in 1912... through the various biplanes, the Hurricane (Typhoon and Tempest) and the Hunter... to that ground breaking design...

Pure genius.

Also a good aircraft.

Twice even... 😋

There’s also a reference to the two engine models as being the manufacturers.

This video did feel a little sloppier than the high quality we are used to from Simon.

@@jameswilkinson9941 i feel like if we are watching this we know what he means, but i do agree

The Supermarine Swift never 'looked right' to my eye.

Certainly my all time favourite jet aeroplane, such a beautiful machine.

AGREED!! There's no jet as sleek, sexy, or more beautiful than the Hawker Hunter!!

It is. We Americans have some lookers, but offhand I can’t think of any that match the beauty and grace of the Hunter, especially from a profile view.

F4 Phantom looks better, a real fighter aircraft, doesn't look like a kids toy like the Hunter

Technically, Hawker started it, for legal reasons as Sopwith went bankrupt

The amount of aviation development that occurred in those 50 or so years is nothing short of astounding. Truly the golden Era of aviation

We do like our Bunkers. Nice to see we're not alone in that!

@@brinesilver405 👍😁🇨🇭

I had a Revell 1:thirty something scale sometime in the late 60s or early 70s.

Me too! A black, 1/72 scale model. Airfix?

@@mikestanmore2614 My brother had a 1/72. Not sure if it was Revell, Monogram or Airfix. He painted it to match mine. Hanging from the ceiling, it looked like one was near, one far.

@@mikestanmore2614 black sounds right so probably an Airfix.

@@m1t2a1 Nice idea. 👍

Likewise, Rolls Royce was the company, Avon the name of the engine.

Thank You👍🏽

I think they may have been the Qatar ones I mentioned in an above comment.

Glad you heard it too, I had to go back to make sure my ears weren't diceving me.

@@orwellboy1958 along with a few slip ups of saying Hurricane. Think sometimes he needs to take a breath and relax when rattling through the scripts.

Rolls-Royce Avon and Armstrong-Siddeley Sapphire.

They were Revolver cannons. Instead of the barrel and chamber rotating, the chamber rotated with a fixed barrel. Revolver cannons are still used today under the name of a Auto-Cannon.

What babalonkie is trying to say is that the Aden cannon had a revolving breech just like a Colt 45 peacemaker, except that it could load, fire and eject without stopping the rotation. The slower alternative resembles the action of an automatic pistol or rifle where the spent round in the breech has to be cleared before the next round can replace it. The evolution of the action of Cannons like the Aden was to increase the number of chambers in the cylinder and attach seperate barrels to each chamber avoiding the problem of breech and barrel alignment among other things and increasing rate of fire dramatically. Enjoyable as he is, Simon has a penchant for detaching brand names which seems to have caused confusion.

@@robertkirby3158 I'm an ex armourer, sorry that should be 'retired' armourer so I'm aware. What I meant was that it wasn't a multi rotating barrelled gun as the Yanks tend to favour when he called it a rotary gun.

@@chrisaskin6144 I take your point from what you accurately wrote about the Hunter. You are correct that the Aden does not fit the definition of a "rotary gun" but the revolving breech in the Aden has caused it to be labelled a "revolver" canon. As I indcated previously, I understand dedicated barrels for each chamber turns a revolver into a rotary. It was babalonkie's "They were Revolver cannons" that challenged you with subsequent loose terminology that brought me in. If by "he" you mean Simon in his narration then, without rerunning the video, I believe he referred to the guns as revolver canons which struck me as unusual, as it obviously did you, but that is just what an online search would give him. If he had been talking about James Bond he would almost certainly have said Walther PPK. The Hunter had far less options than James Bond so why not call an Aden just that. This is especially significant when the verbal hint of technicalities can open a can of worms. I am left wondering if Simon thinks a revolver is a rotary or is just serious comment bait. I do not know where you worked as an armourer but thanks for doing the job anyway.

The lack editing does show on occasion. As does the lack of thorough research. So why am I still watching all these? One thing these guys do well is to pick interesting subjects, so kudos for that. 👍

I'm just here for the topic at hand.

I wonder why?

You are aware that the Canberra was adopted by the USAF as the Martin B57? It was powered by the AS Sapphire. Very many US types used UK engines - DH Ghosts, Rolls Nenes, Avons and Speys, AS Sapphires.

The USA never speak about the Tizard Trunk which was a major part of the Atomic Bomb during WW2 plus gave them Jet and rocket technology & much more

@@StewartWalker-hy1eo We did of course get our own back in developing our own H-Bomb so they shared their designs with us.

@@uingaeoc3905 but we didn’t claim that it was our technology unlike they claim Oppenheimer made the Atom bomb ! No mention of who split the Atom or discovered the neutron in the commonwealth that was a major part of the project except German Fission?

I think it was the Supermarine Spiteful which got cancelled, a much earlier piston engined aircraft.

who is this private air force?

@@toucan221 Airborne Tactical Advantage Company

@@PiersLawsonBrown1972 thanks

​@@PiersLawsonBrown1972and Hawker Hunter Aviation in the UK, in a similar aggressor and target facilities role.

Yeah, whoever wrote his script for this one was pretty sloppy...

Agreed. You’ve made some of the greats, culminating in the TSR.2. We’re worse off without British aircraft showing the world how it’s done - and started.

I came here to say the same!

which is still in service (albeit not in a military capacity) with NASA.

There really is something about British aircraft design that blends aesthetics and function very well

Because we're the shit baby. O yeah! 😂💛👍👊

@@Free-Bodge79 The beauty of their women and the taste of their food, made the British the best sailors in the world

We have some standouts for sure 😊

And the ugliest ships? They don't float as much as repell the water.

that's what happened a lot at the time. Many types were rushed into production because technology moved faster than the procurement process. The F-86 also had its teething problems as did the F-102, the F-104, the Mirage, etc. etc.

The EU

By the way both aircraft you wrote about Mig 15 & F86 have the same engine built under licence the ROLLS ROYCE NENE. Britain was forced to sell the jet engine to GE in USA as part of our Lend Lease agreement after WW2. (Which didn’t go down to well with the British industrialists). So as a swipe at the US I’m afraid we gave it to the Soviets for free!

Heh heh heh...