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142memorable from several standpoints! Unfortunately, the accompanyingphotographic captions describes one of the damaged Hunters, XE662,incorrectly as an F.6 and this is but one of several photographic captionerrors scattered throughout the pages.Typical is a glaring error on page 30 which shows FR 10 WW593 inthe markings of No 14 Sqn, a unit which never flew the recce variant,although it did operate F.6s, latterly at G%u00fctersloh. The aircraft wasprobably a decoy somewhere in RAF Germany in the early 1970s whenthe squadron flew Phantoms at Br%u00fcggen. On page 57 FR 10 WW593appears again, this time incorrectly captioned as an F.6 and wearing No92 Sqn%u2019s markings. Other mistakes include: the caption on page 74which shows a team of armourers loading 3\wrongly as 4\are not RF-84s, they are F-84Fs; and the Meteor NF 14 photographicchase aircraft on page 82 is identified as a T.7. Also, the Hunter did notserve with No 45 Sqn in 1965, as suggested in the caption on page 141.It was a Canberra unit in the Far East which was disbanded some fiveyears later and it did not reform with Hunters until 1972. According toFrancis Mason%u2019s book, Hawker Hunter - Biography of a Thoroughbred,XK137 was actually on the strength of No 54 Sqn in 1965.Furthermore the Hunter justifies rather more than the brief selection ofstories which are included. It seems that the author was content, havingheard a few bar stories and seen a fine selection of photographs, to rushinto print to meet a deadline without setting aside the time to research histopic fully. Many of the great Hunter characters who are still aroundwould have offered some wonderful tales to enhance the Hunter Heydaychapter. The superb solo displays by Ken Goodwin of the Jever SteamLaundry when there seemed to be no minimum height for slow rolls andHeadley Molland%u2019s supersonic ejection after probably leaving his flapsdown in a steep dive at high Mach number deserve a mention. In1958-59 Nicosia housed four Hunter squadrons on rotation, mainly fromFighter Command, and the competitive spirit which prevailed in the airand on the ground justify a few stories from that era. TheStradishall/Waterbeach/West Raynham Wing is hardly mentioned,although their detachments to El Adem created a fund of stories in thediaries of Nos 1 and 54 Sqns, such as %u2018switchery pigs%u2019 with the severalcockpit positions of the rocket selector switches in the early FGA 9scausing many a drop tank to be inadvertently jettisoned. Also missing is