Reflections – Hawker Seahawk

Hawker Seahawk

Commodore Norman Lee continues his series of articles on aircraft he flew during his service with the Fleet AirArm.

There is an old saying in aviation that if it looks right it will fly right; never was this truer than in the case of the Seahawk. It would be one of the prettiest little aircraft that I ever had the pleasure to fly.

I saw my first Seahawk in the hangar of HMS Bulwark when doing my initial deck landing familiarisation in Gannets. Two Hawks were on board and I had a chance to have a really good look at them and to wonder what they were like to fly. At that point in my aviation career there didn’t seem to be the remotest chance that I would have that opportunity. However, fate moves in mysterious ways and three years later I was offered two years exchange with the Royal Navy at the Day Fighter School at Lossiemouth in Scotland. The posting was as a QFI qualified flying instructor in one of the training squadrons which operated Vampires and Seahawks.

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