The Hunter (Back but changed) Traditional Cache

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bgma79: I have decided to put this one to bed now as someone else wants to set a new cache nearby and I think most local cachers (And a few not so) have had their chance to visit.

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Hidden : 9/20/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

A Hawker Hunter G11 'parked' in Melksham
The Hunter

The Hunter was a conventional all-metal monoplane. The pilot sat on a Martin-Baker 2H or 3H ejector seat. The two-seat trainer version used the Mk 4H ejection seats. The fuselage was of monocoque construction, with a removable rear section for engine maintenance. The engine was fed through triangular air intakes in the wing roots and had a single jetpipe in the rear of the fuselage. The mid-mounted wings had a leading edge sweep of 35° and slight anhedral. The tailplanes and fin were also swept. The controls were completely conventional. A single airbrake was fitted under the ventral rear fuselage. The aircraft had conventional retractable tricycle landing gear. The Hunter was armed with a variey of Aden guns an missiles.
The Ministry of Supply ordered the Hunter into production in March 1950, a year before the first flight. The first production Hunter F 1 with a 7,600 lbf (33.80 kN) Avon 113 turbojet flew on 16 March 1953.
The first 20 aircraft were, in effect, a pre-production series and featured a number of "one-off" modifications such as blown flaps and area ruled fuselage. On 7 September 1953, a Hunter F3 flown by Neville Duke broke the world air speed record, achieving 727.63 mph over Littlehampton. However, the record stood for less than three weeks before being broken by an RAF Supermarine Swift on 25 September 1953.
Two-seat trainer versions of the Hunter, the T 7 and T 8 remained in use for training and secondary roles by the RAF and Royal Navy until the early 1990s.
This GA 11 Airframe, originally XF300, was painted to represent the prototype in its F3 guise with the intention of re-enacting the WB188 airspeed record flight on the 50th anniversary in September 2003 but was never made airworthy in time
Cache is outside the fence.

Please make sure the lid is secure when replacing as the hide point floods on a regular basis!


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