FSX Royal Navy Hawker Hunter T8 RN

Royal Navy Hawker Hunter T8 RN repaints in "early" scheme. Three repaints for Dave Garwood's FSX two-seat Hawker Hunter trainers in silver with yellow T-band "early" colors of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA). 764 NAS at RNAS Lossiemouth, the Instrument Training Flight (ITF) at RNAS Yeovilton and XF358 of the Royal Naval Aircraft Handling Unit (RNAHU) at RAF Tengah (Singapore) are included. The latter also served with 700Z NAS in the same colors. Each repaint includes custom specular reflection textures. Updated stencils were kindly provided by Dave Quincey. By Andy Ford.

Repaints by Andy Ford for Dave Garwood's FSX two-seat Hawker Hunter trainers in the silver with yellow T-band "early" colours of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA). Each repaint also includes custom specular reflection textures (spec maps). Updated stencils were kindly provided by Dave Quincey (DaveQ).

References
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Bowman, M.W., 2002, Hunters: The Hawker Hunter in British Military Service, Sutton
Bowman, M.W., 2009, The Hunter story, The History Press
Bradley, P., 2009, The Hawker Hunter: A comprehensive guide, SAM Publications
Hall, A.W., 2004, Hawker Hunter: Warpaint Series No 8, Hall Park Books
Philips, A., 2009, Brawdy: Stronghold in the west, The History Press
Ward, R.L., 1985 Hunter Squadrons of the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm, Aeolus
Ward, R.L. & F.K. Mason, 1971 Hawker Hunter F.I./T.66 in Royal Air Force and Foreign Service, Osprey
Wilson, S., 1995 F-86 Sabre, MIG-15 and Hawker Hunter v.1: F-86 Sabre, MIG-15 and Hawker Hunter: Legends of the Air Vol 1, Aerospace Publications

Installation
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To install please move the following seven folders into your Flight Simulator X/SimObjects/Airplanes/Hunter T' folder:

texture.764NAS_early
texture.ITF
texture.RNAHU_Tengah

You must then edit the aircraft.cfg and insert the following seven sections. Make sure you replace the XX in [fltsim.XX] with the next sequential number for your textures.

[fltsim.XX]
title=Hawker Hunter T8 "early scheme" 764 NAS at RNAS Lossiemouth
sim=hunter
model=T8
panel=
sound=
texture=764NAS_early
checklists=
kb_checklists=hunter_check
kb_reference=hunter_ref
description=
ui_manufacturer=Hawker
ui_type=Hunter T. Mk.8
ui_variation=764 NAS early scheme
ui_typerole="Single engine jet trainer"
ui_createdby="DG Designs"
visual_damage=1
atc_heavy=0
atc_id=XE664
atc_airline=Air Force
atc_flight_number=XE664
atc_type=HAWKER
atc_model=HUNT

[fltsim.XX]
title=Hawker Hunter T8 "early scheme" Instrument Training Flight (ITF) RNAS Yeovilton
sim=hunter
model=T8
panel=
sound=
texture=ITF
checklists=
kb_checklists=hunter_check
kb_reference=hunter_ref
description=
ui_manufacturer=Hawker
ui_type=Hunter T. Mk.8
ui_variation=Instrument Training Flight
ui_typerole="Single engine jet trainer"
ui_createdby="DG Designs"
visual_damage=1
atc_heavy=0
atc_id=WV319
atc_airline=Air Force
atc_flight_number=WV319
atc_type=HAWKER
atc_model=HUNT

[fltsim.XX]
title=Hawker Hunter T8 "early scheme" RNAHU at RAF Tengah and 700Z NAS
sim=hunter
model=T8
panel=
sound=
texture=RNAHU_Tengah
checklists=
kb_checklists=hunter_check
kb_reference=hunter_ref
description=
ui_manufacturer=Hawker
ui_type=Hunter T. Mk.8
ui_variation=RNAHU at RAF Tengah and 700Z NAS
ui_typerole="Single engine jet trainer"
ui_createdby="DG Designs"
visual_damage=1
atc_heavy=0
atc_id=XF358
atc_airline=Air Force
atc_flight_number=XF358
atc_type=HAWKER
atc_model=HUNT

Andy Ford, October 2009

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