Hawker's Sea Hawk came late to the carrier jet fighter game, a result of dithering at the Fleet Air Arm. As a result, it turned up straight wings at a time when sweep was only a few years away. Fortunately the Sea Hawk was a truly excellent aircraft. Despite its humble origins it was every bit a match for the Grumman Panther and McDonnell Banshee. When the Fleet Air Arm deployed to Suez, it was the service's primary fighter bomber and, although the chances to mix it with a MiG15 never arose, it performed admirably in a strike role.

Even to someone like me who was raised in the UK, the Sea Hawk was an obscure fighter. Hopefully this video goes some way to raising its profile.

Sources:

"Warpaint #29: Hawker Sea Hawk" by Tony Buttler contains some great photos and colour plates alongside a decent description of the type. In my view, this is the book to get if you're after something exclusively on the type

"Hawker Aircraft Since 1920" by Francis Mason has a good section on the Sea Hawk and does a good job at putting it into context of Hawker in the postwar era

"Wings Over Suez" by Brian Cull, David Nicolle, and Shlomo Aloni is the book (perhaps the only book?) to get if you're interested in the Suez air war

If you're a collector of such things then "Profile #79: Hawker Sea Hawk" is a little thin but is still a nice quick overview of the type's genesis and FAA service

German service is covered in Siegfried Wache's "Sea Hawk Mk.100/101". It's in German and was a bit slow going for me!

A slightly obscure book that I picked up years ago is "Hawker Sea Hawk" by Mark 1 Publications, printed in the Czech Republic. The text in this one is useful for a modeller in that it goes through structural features. The pictures are also excellent. This all comes at the cost of quite rudimentary historical coverage

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