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Newsletter 23
Spring 2009
Updated on 17Feb2009
Published by the Hawker Association
for the Members.
Contents © Hawker Association

Contents
Editorial
Aces, Erks, Backroom Boys
Book Reviews
Christmas Lunch
Correction
Demonstration Flying
Harrier News
Harrier Sales To China
Hunter News
Hurricane News
Kingston's Aircraft Industry
Members' e-mail Addresses
Members
Programme
Restoring Hawker Biplanes
Royal Air Force Club Visit
Sea fury News
Sea Harrier News
Sir Keith Park Memorial
Windsor Camm Appeal
View From The Hover
 
Hunter News
 
    Belgium's last surviving Hunter FMk61 has been mounted on a column at a roundabout near Chievres Air Base where it served with No.7 Fighter Wing. The Belgian Hunters were retired in November 1973. Many were refurbished by HSA and sold.
Harrier News

    Duncan Simpson sent in a cartoon by Peter Brookes from the Times of 27 November last. It shows a cross looking Gordon Brown standing in front of a Harrier surrounded by cases, labelled Iraq/Afghanistan, full of bundles of bank notes which he is throwing in large quantities down the intake of the GR9. They emerge as flaming debris. Our dear Prime Minister is saying "What recession?"
    As Duncan says, "It seems the Government of the day has found a new use for the Harrier."