BAC Strikemaster

Recordings

BAC Strikemaster, August 2009

Maybe a Hunting Jet Provost, G-BKOU (cn PAC/W/13901)

Recording of a jet Provost.

Recording of a jet Provost. Date unknown.

The BAC 167 Strikemaster was a British jet-powered training and light attack aircraft. It was a development of the Hunting Jet Provost trainer, itself a jet engined version of the Percival Provost, which originally flew in 1950 with a radial piston engine.

BAC / Hunting Strikemaster / ProvostThe BAC 167 Strikemaster is essentially an armed version of the Jet Provost T Mk 5; the Strikemaster was modified with an up-rated engine, wing hardpoints, a strengthened airframe, new communication and navigation gear, up-rated ejection seats, a revised fuel system, and shortened landing gear. First flown in 1967, the aircraft was marketed as a light attack or counter-insurgency aircraft, but most large scale purchasers were air forces wanting an advanced trainer although Ecuador, Oman and Yemen have used their aircraft in combat. A total of 146 were built. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_Strikemaster

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