Thanks for the additional info on the T.8Cs at Honington/Lossie.
Originally Posted by
TEEEJ
It always confused me seeing images of RAF T.7s with tail hooks. I was reading Flight Craft 16: The Hawker Hunter in British Service by Martin Derry and Neil Robinson recently and that book suggests some T.7s ended up with T.8 tails.The book seems to suggest that during maintenance the tails of the two types were sometimes swapped about hence some T.8s without hooks and vice versa?
Would that be the case?
I don't see why not. Quite a few of the extant Hunters have a different back end from the one they first flew with, which isn't that surprising, given that an engine change involved splitting the aircraft in two:
