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This maybe the first Hunter F.4 at Jever.   In which case it would have been a 98 Sqn aircraft but not yet with squadron colours - 15Apr55.   Dick Endecott writes: "My now feeble memory may have let me down here but as it seems this Hunter taxying past ATC may have been the first to arrive.   There are no visible markings on this Hunter and I guess this may be because they hadn't had time to paint them on.   Again, my memory is unreliable but I think this may have been the occasion when either
W/Cdr West or S/Ldr Gilpin were flying.   The word was going around ATC that who ever it was was going to take it through the sound barrier".   98 Sqn were the first to get their Hunters when they were moved to Jever from Fassberg on re-equipment from Venoms.   The first aircraft on their charge was Hunter F.4 WW649 which eventually became E.   This arrived on 98 on Friday 15Apr55 and went to 5MU on Wed 10Jul57.   Sqn Ldr Gilpin was CO of 4 Sqn who did not get their Hunters until Jul55, so it was either Wg Cdr Hammer West or the CO of 98 Sqn at that time Sqn Ldr Smith-Carington.
(Thanks to Dick Endecott)
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