The Hawker Hunter – A comprehensive guide

Number sixteen of the SAM monograph publications is on one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built: the Hawker Hunter. Just like the other volumes, this book is fully packed with photos (and a lot of them in colour!), colour profiles and technical drawings from the Hunter manual. In almost 130 pages, the following chapters on the Hunter are given:

1. Development of the Hunter
2. The Hunter in British service
3. Export customers
4. The Hunter in action
5. Hunter camouflage and markings – Colour side views
6. Hunter walk-around
7. Modelling the Hunter

Hawker Hunter MDF 16 book cover
Hawker Hunter MDF 16 book cover

In six appendixes, additional details on the Hunter are given, both intended for the model builder and the aviation historian!

There are no less than thirteen pages of side views ranging from the first prototype WB188 as it flew in 1951 to an Indian air force F.56 in 1990. They were all made by Srecko Bradic (and that should be enough guarantee for their quality!).

Last but not least, there is at the end of this book a multi-page fold-out with very detailed line drawings! In short, this book is a real must for Hunter fans!

Book details:

Title: The Hawker Hunter – A comprehensive guide
Author: Paul Bradley
ISBN number: 0-9551858-9-0
Type: soft-cover A4, 128 pages + fold-out page
Publisher: SAM Publications, Media House, 21 Kingsway, Bedford MK42 9BJ, UK
www.sampublications.com
Price: £19.99 plus P&P

More info also here

Nico Braas

With thanks to SAM editor Neil Robinson for providing a review copy.

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About the Author

Nico

Born: 21.05.1946 Nationality: Dutch Flying experience: gliders only; more than 1100 starts or 215 hours since 1991 on the following types: two-seaters: Schleicher ASK-13, Schleicher ASK-21, Grob Twin Astir Single seaters: Schleicher K-8c, PZL-Bielsko SZD-51-1 Junior, Rolladen-Schneider LS-4b, Pilatus B4-PC-11, Schleicher ASK-23 Interest: aircraft built as prototype or in small numbers only Photos: more than 10,000 world-wide covering the period 1930 up to now Archive: technical info and 3-view drawings on most types; more than 850 books on aviation.

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