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The article says The Hawk 60 is the current export version...... and is capable of Mach 1.2 -- but the box on the right lists a max speed of 633mph. Which should be amended? Moriori 21:50, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)
The Hawk is NOT capable of supersonic speed in level flight. Mach 1.2 is the dive limit, the maximum never-exceed speed for the airframe. It IS capable of exceeding the speed of sound in a fairly shallow dive, so the airframe is Area ruled to minimize transonic drag. That's a plus for training, because it introduces pilots to transonic handling without the cost of operating a true supersonic trainer, and it's a useful capability in the light attack role as well. ArgentLA 11 Jan 2005
This article does not conform to Wikipedia standards. It sounds like an advertisement and suffers from hyperbole; the capability of the aircraft is a bit exaggerated.
What is the difference between the 60 and the 60As?
Initially I thought the 60As were the ones that are Sidewonder capable. However, I have come across photos of Zimbabwe's Hawks, dated 1982 with Sidewinders next (not mounted) to them. I also know that in 85 Zimbabwe scrambled 2 Hawks to chase what turned out to be a UFO. Back then Zimbabwe only had Hawk 60. It there suggests to me that the 60s were air defence capable.
Anybody with information?
Thanks.
The article had unsourced statments of the T-45 being based on the Hawk Mk.50. I have changed this to Mk.60. I have three sources from two different publishers, plus [2], which state that it was developed from the Mk.60. I have added a verification needed tag for the time being. - BillCJ 18:24, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
No contest. Removing tag. - BillCJ 16:27, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Pilot ejects as RAF jet crash-lands [solo flight then?] Press Association Friday April 20, 2007 2:18 PM
An RAF jet has crash-landed at an airfield in North Wales.
The Hawk plane came down at around 12.25pm at Mona airfield, in Valley, Anglesey.
A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service said the pilot was airlifted to Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor after ejecting from the plane.
The spokesman said no details were available about his condition.
Dennis Morris, 68, who lives near the airfield, said he saw the pilot lying motionless in a field.
He said: "He looked quite badly injured and he wasn't moving. I heard the crash - it sounded like a horrendous car crash but I knew what it was straight away.
"I looked out of the window and saw a person lying, obviously injured, in the field. The plane was in two very badly damaged pieces, with bits scattered all around. The ejector seat was in a tree."
A spokesman for North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said four fire engines and two emergency tenders were called to the scene.
According to the Mona Flying Club website, RAF Mona acts as the relief landing ground for RAF Valley, and is used by student and instructor pilots to practise flying airfield circuits.
RAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey which provides advanced pilot training using the BAE Hawks
Doesn't this article need a sub-section on design features including engines, avionics and cockpit? Currently the cockpit is not even mentioned. Wittlessgenstein ( talk) 19:01, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
In addition to that, it looks like there's operational history in the design/development section (shouldn't the Red Arrows be under RAF operational history?) and there's also design/development info under variants. What's the general policy for variants - do they get their own sections with their own developments detailed there, or should there be sections in design/development for each variant? Looking at the example Messerschmitt Me 163 it looks like it should be the latter. I'm willing to have a go, if the COI doesn't worry people. (I'm proud of the a/c, but don't work there any more, so I can fairly NPOV) MadScot ( talk) 02:47, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I have reverted the last revision, so that the second sentence of the Development section reads:
Fast jet training is the correct term. Initial jet training could be understood to refer to the training conducted by the RAF on the Jet Provost, and so this term is incorrect - neither the Hawk nor the Gnat are the initial jet aircraft used for training. MadScot ( talk) 17:21, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I put here the editing deleted by Mr. BillCJ. As always he has no questions to pose, just delete and goes.
The main reason overall is the powerful turbofan engine, coupled with a moderate angled wing. Adour turbofan was similar to the ones in Jaguar (without A/B), and were preferred to the R.R. Viper in 1972 [1]. Trust and wing allowed to outperform the most of concorrence, apart from Alpha Jet (bi-engined). While Macchi MB.326 was the best of its generation, and the most european sold in this category, the next step, MB.339, wasn't awarded with the same success. The reason was the evolution of the training system: Macchi has a wide range of employ, from basic to advanced-operative training, but its turbo-jet engine has an high fuel consumption. The 'all jet-training', starting with the '70s, was less and less liked, so the right-wing and pure turbojet engine (less performances and endurance). RAF, instead, adopted Hawk and later, Tucano. This is another way to train: a powerful turbo-shaft and an advanced/operative trainer, to couver all the tasks, up to first line duties (as the 88 T Mk.1A adapted for AIM-9 Sidewinder). As light fighter, Hawk is capable to hold up to 3 t of stores and a 30 mm gunpod; it was even tested in a 1.454 kmh dive at 900 m (1,2 mach), and is capable to reach 9.100 m in mere 6 minutes. The turbo-fan engine allows to reach very long range. With 1.704 l internal fuel load, and two external tanks (455-864 l) Hawk Mk.1A is capable of a 3.150 km endurance (Mk.60 with 1.700 external fuel: over 4.000 km). The range with 4 1.000 lbs bombs and 130 30 mm rounds is 550-930 km (depending on the sources). MB.339A, as example, is capable of 370 km with 4 Mk 82 bombs. This explain how Hawk (and Alpha Jet) are a clear step forward as operational capabilities [2] and its success in the '70-'90s.
So i stay to see IF there are problem with this. Seen as Hawk page is so miserable as tecnical details this should be added.-- Stefanomencarelli ( talk) 20:27, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
It seems there is still a sort of resistence when someone not-anglosaxon author makes modiphics on aircraft pages like this.
But, that's time to put things clear.
Instead to blame my editing, it would be much more reasonable to call 'incomprensible' this article. Why?
So it's ridicolous continuing to revert my edits, just because i am trying to evolve this article in something that have a reasonably explanaition of what it is talk about. How you can pretend that a reader could understand the differences between, let's say, MB.326 or 339 or L-39 or C-101 syllabus and Tucano+Hawk? This is not without impact. Hawk, and many more aircrafts, are explained, apparently, 'because they are and we must do it'. Not a real effort to let know to the reader anything apart very basic information, nothing that really explains and relativize this model in its times. And it wuold be worthing a very bigger effort than now. Since B-17s page has over 100 kb (and a lot, lot of other aircrafts are over 50 kb), it wuold be the space to grow very much this article. IF there is the will to do it.-- Stefanomencarelli ( talk) 19:45, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
As example, a good article is this: Bristol_Beaufort. In it's relatively small dimensions, has spoken almost is needed to know this aircraft. Just as example of what kind of service could be done by wikipedia when there is the will to do it better.-- Stefanomencarelli ( talk) 19:52, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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The article says The Hawk 60 is the current export version...... and is capable of Mach 1.2 -- but the box on the right lists a max speed of 633mph. Which should be amended? Moriori 21:50, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)
The Hawk is NOT capable of supersonic speed in level flight. Mach 1.2 is the dive limit, the maximum never-exceed speed for the airframe. It IS capable of exceeding the speed of sound in a fairly shallow dive, so the airframe is Area ruled to minimize transonic drag. That's a plus for training, because it introduces pilots to transonic handling without the cost of operating a true supersonic trainer, and it's a useful capability in the light attack role as well. ArgentLA 11 Jan 2005
This article does not conform to Wikipedia standards. It sounds like an advertisement and suffers from hyperbole; the capability of the aircraft is a bit exaggerated.
What is the difference between the 60 and the 60As?
Initially I thought the 60As were the ones that are Sidewonder capable. However, I have come across photos of Zimbabwe's Hawks, dated 1982 with Sidewinders next (not mounted) to them. I also know that in 85 Zimbabwe scrambled 2 Hawks to chase what turned out to be a UFO. Back then Zimbabwe only had Hawk 60. It there suggests to me that the 60s were air defence capable.
Anybody with information?
Thanks.
The article had unsourced statments of the T-45 being based on the Hawk Mk.50. I have changed this to Mk.60. I have three sources from two different publishers, plus [2], which state that it was developed from the Mk.60. I have added a verification needed tag for the time being. - BillCJ 18:24, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
No contest. Removing tag. - BillCJ 16:27, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Pilot ejects as RAF jet crash-lands [solo flight then?] Press Association Friday April 20, 2007 2:18 PM
An RAF jet has crash-landed at an airfield in North Wales.
The Hawk plane came down at around 12.25pm at Mona airfield, in Valley, Anglesey.
A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service said the pilot was airlifted to Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor after ejecting from the plane.
The spokesman said no details were available about his condition.
Dennis Morris, 68, who lives near the airfield, said he saw the pilot lying motionless in a field.
He said: "He looked quite badly injured and he wasn't moving. I heard the crash - it sounded like a horrendous car crash but I knew what it was straight away.
"I looked out of the window and saw a person lying, obviously injured, in the field. The plane was in two very badly damaged pieces, with bits scattered all around. The ejector seat was in a tree."
A spokesman for North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said four fire engines and two emergency tenders were called to the scene.
According to the Mona Flying Club website, RAF Mona acts as the relief landing ground for RAF Valley, and is used by student and instructor pilots to practise flying airfield circuits.
RAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey which provides advanced pilot training using the BAE Hawks
Doesn't this article need a sub-section on design features including engines, avionics and cockpit? Currently the cockpit is not even mentioned. Wittlessgenstein ( talk) 19:01, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
In addition to that, it looks like there's operational history in the design/development section (shouldn't the Red Arrows be under RAF operational history?) and there's also design/development info under variants. What's the general policy for variants - do they get their own sections with their own developments detailed there, or should there be sections in design/development for each variant? Looking at the example Messerschmitt Me 163 it looks like it should be the latter. I'm willing to have a go, if the COI doesn't worry people. (I'm proud of the a/c, but don't work there any more, so I can fairly NPOV) MadScot ( talk) 02:47, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I have reverted the last revision, so that the second sentence of the Development section reads:
Fast jet training is the correct term. Initial jet training could be understood to refer to the training conducted by the RAF on the Jet Provost, and so this term is incorrect - neither the Hawk nor the Gnat are the initial jet aircraft used for training. MadScot ( talk) 17:21, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I put here the editing deleted by Mr. BillCJ. As always he has no questions to pose, just delete and goes.
The main reason overall is the powerful turbofan engine, coupled with a moderate angled wing. Adour turbofan was similar to the ones in Jaguar (without A/B), and were preferred to the R.R. Viper in 1972 [1]. Trust and wing allowed to outperform the most of concorrence, apart from Alpha Jet (bi-engined). While Macchi MB.326 was the best of its generation, and the most european sold in this category, the next step, MB.339, wasn't awarded with the same success. The reason was the evolution of the training system: Macchi has a wide range of employ, from basic to advanced-operative training, but its turbo-jet engine has an high fuel consumption. The 'all jet-training', starting with the '70s, was less and less liked, so the right-wing and pure turbojet engine (less performances and endurance). RAF, instead, adopted Hawk and later, Tucano. This is another way to train: a powerful turbo-shaft and an advanced/operative trainer, to couver all the tasks, up to first line duties (as the 88 T Mk.1A adapted for AIM-9 Sidewinder). As light fighter, Hawk is capable to hold up to 3 t of stores and a 30 mm gunpod; it was even tested in a 1.454 kmh dive at 900 m (1,2 mach), and is capable to reach 9.100 m in mere 6 minutes. The turbo-fan engine allows to reach very long range. With 1.704 l internal fuel load, and two external tanks (455-864 l) Hawk Mk.1A is capable of a 3.150 km endurance (Mk.60 with 1.700 external fuel: over 4.000 km). The range with 4 1.000 lbs bombs and 130 30 mm rounds is 550-930 km (depending on the sources). MB.339A, as example, is capable of 370 km with 4 Mk 82 bombs. This explain how Hawk (and Alpha Jet) are a clear step forward as operational capabilities [2] and its success in the '70-'90s.
So i stay to see IF there are problem with this. Seen as Hawk page is so miserable as tecnical details this should be added.-- Stefanomencarelli ( talk) 20:27, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
It seems there is still a sort of resistence when someone not-anglosaxon author makes modiphics on aircraft pages like this.
But, that's time to put things clear.
Instead to blame my editing, it would be much more reasonable to call 'incomprensible' this article. Why?
So it's ridicolous continuing to revert my edits, just because i am trying to evolve this article in something that have a reasonably explanaition of what it is talk about. How you can pretend that a reader could understand the differences between, let's say, MB.326 or 339 or L-39 or C-101 syllabus and Tucano+Hawk? This is not without impact. Hawk, and many more aircrafts, are explained, apparently, 'because they are and we must do it'. Not a real effort to let know to the reader anything apart very basic information, nothing that really explains and relativize this model in its times. And it wuold be worthing a very bigger effort than now. Since B-17s page has over 100 kb (and a lot, lot of other aircrafts are over 50 kb), it wuold be the space to grow very much this article. IF there is the will to do it.-- Stefanomencarelli ( talk) 19:45, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
As example, a good article is this: Bristol_Beaufort. In it's relatively small dimensions, has spoken almost is needed to know this aircraft. Just as example of what kind of service could be done by wikipedia when there is the will to do it better.-- Stefanomencarelli ( talk) 19:52, 6 June 2009 (UTC)