Two seater Hunters!

A super nice model. Thank you so much Dave, you always deliver such beautiful and enjoyable models to the community!
I'll let the screen shots speak for themselves:
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What an incredible week you have provided us, Dave, first with "Little Nellie" and now the Hunter T7! Thank you very, very much! Here are just some quick shots from my first flight with the aircraft, around Humberside.













 
It looks superb, especially the virtual cockpit !
Can't wait to try it in VR.
Thanks Dave ! :ernaehrung004:
 
Well done and thanks Dave!

I have flown your jets ever since I first started in flight sim way back when.

Richard
 
Did a few circuits in VR last night. This is another outstanding contribution. It has a beautiful and mostly functional cockpit, nice sounds, cool features like a multi-position cockpit dial that sets the various drop tank loadouts, plausible flight model, lots of good looking skins. I like the way the radio and transponder are integrated into the cockpit in a consistent but functional way. Overall a very enjoyable ride.

August
 
Absolutely fantastic. This was always one I loved in earlier sims, and now in MSFS... Just great. What a blast of sheer nostalgia. Thank you sir!
 
One of the iconic photos that inspired me to try and become a pilot or atleast one of the reasons i became a life long aviation hobbyist. Which little boy did *not* want to sit up there looking like that. Good chance it is also the reason i have always had a thing for pilot helmets and gear (i have a nice collection including an RAF 'bone dome'.. ).

Most girls of my age back then probabely had photos of Elvis, James Dean or Cliff Richard on their bedroom wall. I had this:

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This is Gerben Sonderman, main testpilot for Fokker Aircraft Factory at EHAM Schiphol on the 4th of April 1955 in the cockpit of a Hawker Hunter F.4. The Hunter was chosen by the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Dutch AF ) to replace the Gloster Meteor and what i understand now is that each one was first tested by Fokker before being delivered to the Klu.

One of the anekdotes that became known about Sonderman was that he heard that all Fokker S.11 elementary trainers that were delivered to the Israeli AF were neatly parked at the flightline each morning but sofar no one dared to fly it a.o. because of the funny looking 'bended' undercarriage. Sonderman then took one up from Schiphol Amsterdam and flew it straight to Tel Aviv to show those lily-livered pilots overthere that a Fokker S.11 was easy and perfectly safe to fly.

Next to the F-84G/F and F-86K the Dutch AF flew the Hawker Hunter F Mk.4 between 1955 and 1964 as well as the F Mk.6 between 1957 and 1968. 8 T.Mk.7 trainers were used between 1958 and 1968. N-305 that was written off in 1967 can still be seen in the 'Militaire Luchtvaart Museum' in Soesterberg.

I have always thought that the Hawker Hunter is one of the most beautiful jetfighters ever designed. When it comes to beauty a bit like a jet engined Spitfire. Also because of Gerben Sonderman's, to me, iconic photo, sitting up there, all alone, in this very sophisticated piece of flying machinery must surely be the most awesome goal a person can achieve. However somehow it is often the two seat trainer version of a prop- or jetfighter aircraft that exites me even more than the normal single seat version. Like why enjoy an awesome experience like that all on your own while you can also share it with a friend (well, something like that anyway..;-)

Thank you very much, Dave, for sharing your extraordinairy beautiful Hunter models here in MSFS with your friends. A superb job !! :applause: :encouragement:
 
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